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A man charged with shooting 11 worshipers to death at a Pittsburgh synagogue was arraigned and ordered held without bond on Monday for the deadliest attack ever on America’s Jewish community.

Robert Bowers, 46, who has a history of posting anti-Semitic material online, faces 29 charges and could be sentenced to death if found guilty. He was wounded in a gunfight with police at the synagogue on Saturday and appeared in the U.S. federal courtroom shackled and in a wheelchair, wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt and gray pants.

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The FBI has asked Google for location data on anyone close in time and location to robberies in Virginia and Maine.

The FBI’s “reverse location” orders could ensnare anyone who uses Google services at specific times in the robbery areas, Forbes reports. People could be caught up in the probes if they use Android phones, run Google Maps or run other Google services on their phones. Innocent people whose data are revealed are not told of the disclosure.

In the Virginia case, the FBI obtained a search warrant for information on people near four separate armed robberies at a Dollar Tree store and another armed robbery of a Dollar Tree manager who was dropping off money at a Wells Fargo night-deposit box. The areas for which the FBI sought data included several homes, shops and restaurants. The FBI also asked Google to identify its account holders in those areas.

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A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit by a group of former child slaves accusing the U.S. unit of Nestle SA, the world’s largest food maker, and Cargill Co [CARG.UL] of perpetuating child slavery at Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

Judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, said in a unanimous decision that the group could proceed with its claims despite the alleged abuses having occurred overseas.

“In sum, the allegations paint a picture of overseas slave labor that defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the United States,” the court wrote.

The court did not rule on the merits of the plaintiffs’ claims.

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Wells Fargo & Co will pay $65 million to settle claims that it misled investors about its “cross-selling” business strategy, the New York Attorney General’s office said on Monday.

A push by Wells Fargo to get existing customers to buy more of the bank’s products, known as “cross-selling,” was at the center of a fake customer accounts scandal that has dogged the bank for two years.

Wells Fargo failed to disclose to investors that the success of its cross-selling was built on sales practice misconduct, Underwood’s office said.

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The four major U.S. professional sports leagues could reap a combined $4.2 billion annually as a result of legal sports betting, most of it indirectly from increased fan engagement, according to a casino industry survey released on Thursday.

The findings could fuel a long-simmering feud between the gaming industry and American sports leagues, who want a share of the gambling revenue as U.S. states begin to legalize sports betting.

The survey showed leagues stand to benefit even without taking a cut of wagers. The National Football League is likely to make the most, with a projected $2.33 billion of additional annual revenue, according to the study seen by Reuters. The rest would go to Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League.

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