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Apple settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a cool $250 million.
And it’s worth mentioning that over half of that money is actually earmarked for customers. Meaning that if you’re like me (and you’ve purchased an iPhone recently) then there’s a good chance you can get a piece of that settlement.
Let me briefly give you the history of the case, as well as how you can check whether you qualify for the money.

A few months ago, when President Donald Trump began floating the idea of taking over Cuba using military force, many people were understandably surprised.
Since then, however, the State Department has put out reports and statements making the case for why Cuba is such a threat to the United States, calling the regime “an espionage superpower.”
A recent report says the Cuban regime has waged a 70-year-long war against the United States—not with kinetic weapons of course, but instead by using the dark arts of sabotage and subversion, including by propping up anti-U.S. socialists in central and south America and sending over spies who then spent decades hidden inside America with top security clearances. And then, there’s what the State Department calls Cuba’s greatest weapon: the ability to control people in our cities and towns through ideological alignment. It’s the old Soviet tactic of, “If you hate American imperialism, work for Cuba behind the scenes.”
Apparently, it’s been effective—so let’s go through it together.

There are some big moves happening in the gold market.
Last week, the Central Bank of the Netherlands confirmed that they moved 86 tons of gold out of North America—moving it to London.
Earlier this year France did something similar, removing all of their gold reserves from the U.S.—in favor of keeping them at home.
Germany did the same as well a few years ago. Their central bank moved the 111 tons of gold that they had in New York, and they brought it home to be kept in Germany.
All this is atop record-breaking gold buying from the central banks across the world: including China, Russia, India, Poland, Uzbekistan, Hungary, Kazakhstan, and a long tail of central banks in smaller countries buying up the precious metal.
And so, in order to get an idea of what’s happening in the market, I got a chance to speak with Machi Block from American Hartford Gold to get a peek at the market from someone who has a finger on the pulse of the industry.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Anthropic recently settled a $1.5-billion civil suit over the illegal downloading of millions of books used to train its large language model.
It was the single largest copyright infringement settlement in U.S. history.
This past weekend, over 30 music companies filed a class-action lawsuit alleging Anthropic illegally downloaded song lyrics from the same torrent sites and intentionally removed copyright information.
How this case shakes out could very well dictate whether the live music industry is still a thing a generation from now. Let's go through the details together.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Let’s delve into the history of the “prank video” format, and how it’s developed to where it is today, where TikTok stars are going into businesses pretending to work there in order to get access to unauthorized staff-only areas.