Source: Victoria Times Colonist [Canada]

“An Arizona jury convicted a man Thursday on eight murder charges for carrying out a string of shootings in metro Phoenix over a three-week span in 2017. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Cleophus Cooksey Jr. The victims in Phoenix and nearby Glendale included Cooksey’s mother and stepfather, a security guard walking to his girlfriend’s apartment and a woman whose body was found in an alley after she was sexually assaulted. Cooksey, described by police as an aspiring musician, knew some of the victims but wasn’t acquainted with others, authorities said. He has said the allegations against him were false. The first of the eight killings occurred four months after Cooksey was released from prison on a manslaughter conviction for his participation in a 2001 strip club robbery in which an accomplice was fatally shot.” (09/25/25)

https://www.timescolonist.com/world-news/arizona-jury-convicts-man-on-8-murder-charges-for-metro-phoenix-shootings-in-2017-11264232

Source: Reuters

“Amazon.com will pay $2.5 billion in [bribes] and redress to Prime subscribers to settle the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s case alleging the retail juggernaut signed users up for the subscription without their consent and made it difficult to cancel, the FTC said on Thursday. Of that, $1.5 billion will go into a fund to repay eligible Prime subscribers and Amazon will not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, the FTC said. … At a trial in Seattle federal court, the FTC accused Amazon of duping tens of millions of Prime customers by signing them up without consent and locking them in with overly complex cancellation methods. The FTC started probing Amazon’s subscription practices during President Donald Trump’s first term and the case was filed during Joe Biden’s presidency.” (09/25/25)

https://archive.is/YGPj4

Source: Semafor

“Microsoft blocked an Israeli military unit from using some of its technology after finding it was used to surveil Palestinians. … Microsoft’s move to revoke access is extraordinary given its decades-long relationship with the Israeli military, which has ramped up its use of US-made AI models and cloud computing services during the war in Gaza.” (09/25/25)

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/25/2025/microsoft-blocks-israeli-military-unit-from-cloud-services

Source: Associated Press

“A Vatican appeals tribunal put an end to prosecutors’ efforts to salvage their claims of massive fraud in the Holy See’s ‘Trial of the Century,’ in which a once-powerful cardinal and nine others were accused of fleecing tens of millions of euros from the church before being acquitted on many charges. The tribunal declared inadmissable the prosecutor’s requests to overturn acquittals on dozens of charges, saying they had failed to provide specific reasons for their appeal within the right timeframe. The court agreed with the defense that prosecutors had cut and pasted the same arguments they used in lower courts to argue for convictions on appeal. … The trial court convicted [the defendants] on some charges, while largely rejecting prosecutors’ overarching thesis of a grand plot to defraud the Holy See and acquitting the defendants of many of the dozens of charges against them.” (09/25/25)

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-trial-century-appeal-cardinal-becciu-04527a273352f097e9bf99f3febceca9