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Wells Fargo Bank NA announced Friday it will pay $43 million to end allegations it failed to protect investors from billions of dollars in losses as the trustee for hundreds of residential mortgage-backed securities, a deal reached with certain institutional buyers, including funds affiliated with BlackRock Inc. and PIMCO.

Facebook Inc. announced Friday that it will no longer make its workers who claim they have been sexually harassed arbitrate their claims, following Google LLC, which made a similar announcement on Thursday.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson's camps traded barbs Friday as litigation picked up across the Sunshine State ahead of likely recounts in their Senate contest and two other statewide races.

A New York City attorney accused of fatally shooting the mother of his daughter in their New Jersey home last month allegedly confessed in a note left in a suitcase when he dropped off the child with his brother before fleeing to Cuba, according to prosecutors and court documents.

A Georgia jury on Thursday found that Atlanta's transit system's negligence was responsible for a fall by a disabled passenger who was getting off a bus that left her in a permanent vegetative state, and awarded the rider $18.75 million.

A Delaware jury awarded Power Integrations Inc. more than $24 million in damages Friday after finding that competitor Fairchild Semiconductor International willfully infringed its patents for frequency jitter technology and induced third parties to infringe the patents as well.

A former global supply manager for Elon Musk-helmed Tesla Inc. was indicted on Thursday for his alleged role in an embezzlement scheme in which he purportedly used fake documents and email accounts to divert about $9.3 million from one auto parts supplier to another.

The Pittsburgh Pirates reached a settlement with a woman injured by a foul ball at PNC Park in 2015, attorneys said Friday, but a jury trial under a new judge in state court scheduled to get underway Wednesday will determine the liability of the company that installed the allegedly defective safety netting behind home plate.

Trade officials from the U.S. and United Kingdom have been preparing for post-Brexit trade negotiations with lower-level talks on issues like e-commerce, industrial and agricultural goods, investment and financial services, according to a Trump administration readout of their recent meetings published Friday.

Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Ed Sheeran have reached a settlement to end a copyright lawsuit in New York federal court that claimed their 2017 single “The Rest of Our Life” was a “blatant note-for-note copy” of an earlier song.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital and is "doing well" after suffering three fractured ribs in a fall Wednesday evening, U.S. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement Friday morning.

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Friday morning that would bar asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border from bringing their claims if they do not present themselves at a designated port of entry.