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Daily fantasy sports giant FanDuel Inc. announced Monday it will offer a new seasonlong fantasy sports product and promised that its contests will be fair for all participants as part of an overall rebranding of the company, which has been mired in controversy and litigation over the past year.

Facing a possible prison sentence of more than six months and citing health concerns, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday discarded a plea deal on federal charges that he lied to authorities investigating corruption in the Sheriff's Department, sending the case to trial in California federal court.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday said 10 new cases of locally transmitted Zika virus have been detected in the state and asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide an emergency response team to assist efforts to target the virus.

Tesla has reached an all-stock deal worth $2.6 billion to buy SolarCity, the company said Monday, ending more than a month of talks and bringing together the electric-car maker with a solar panel company to create the world’s first vertically integrated clean energy company.

A Texas federal judge vacated VirnetX’s colossal $625 million patent infringement verdict against Apple on Friday, ruling it was unfair to Apple to combine two separate VirnetX suits alleging Apple infringed its network security patents into one trial, and he split the suits and ordered a pair of new trials.

The Fourth Circuit reversed a North Carolina federal judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law on Friday, ruling that the law targeted black voters with near “surgical precision” and that the lower court “fundamentally erred” in its April decision to uphold the law.