California will bar social media platforms from offering addictive features such as infinite scroll and autoplay to users under 16, impose new safeguards on AI companion chatbots and expose some companies to damages reaching $1 million per child under a sweeping package signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.Signed September 10,... Read More »
Kid Cudi says the First Amendment gave him the right to remove M.I.A. from his Rebel Ragers Tour and is asking a federal judge to throw out her lawsuit seeking more than $2.8 million over the firing.M.I.A. says her contract allowed her to say what she wanted onstage. Cudi is... Read More »
A fight over whether a Christian youth ministry can open in downtown Leland, Michigan, has spilled into federal court, with a lawsuit accusing township officials of religious discrimination after they denied a special use permit for a Youth for Christ clubhouse.The dispute centers on a privately owned building in Leland’s... Read More »
Chris Hansen has retained lawyers to examine whether he has legal options over “Primetime,” the new A24 film starring Robert Pattinson as a fictionalized version of the former “Dateline” correspondent behind “To Catch a Predator.”No lawsuit has been filed, and Hansen has yet to see the finished movie, but he... Read More »
Jimmy Kimmel is pulling his interview with Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico from ABC television and putting it on YouTube instead, saying FCC pressure over political guest bookings has made broadcasting the conversation too risky for the network and its affiliates.The interview is scheduled to appear online Thursday, bypassing... Read More »
Weeks before the $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in Los Angeles, an electrical contractor seeking $1.9 million in allegedly unpaid bills is challenging how the project was classified under California law.J.E. Snyder Electric argues the museum’s 99-year lease of state-owned land for $30 a year made the... Read More »
AMC has agreed to pay “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman and four producers $120 million to settle a breach of contract lawsuit over profits from the hit franchise, bringing the network’s two major settlements tied to the series to $320 million.Kirkman, Glen Mazzara, David Alpert, Charles Eglee and Gale... Read More »
Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation after his own attorney raised concerns about whether he can stand trial on attempted murder charges tied to an alleged attack on the father of Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates.Ebert sharply rejected that assessment during a September 3... Read More »
A South Carolina clothing company has agreed to pay Buc-ee’s $850,000 and destroy merchandise featuring a tactical version of the travel center chain’s famous beaver mascot, ending a trademark fight over products marketed under the name “Tac-Bucc.”The consent judgment permanently bars Born United from using Buc-ee’s beaver logo or any... Read More »
The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate a rule that gives many H-1B visa holders up to 60 days to remain in the United States after losing their jobs, potentially forcing thousands of foreign workers and their families to make immigration decisions almost immediately after employment ends.The Department of Homeland... Read More »
The widow of a man killed when an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit over the crash, alleging pilot errors and other failures contributed to the accident that killed five people as federal investigators revealed one pilot repeatedly warned... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Missouri from using a newly drawn congressional map in the November midterm election, stepping into an escalating legal battle that had produced directly conflicting orders from state and federal courts.In an unsigned order issued Thursday, September 10, the justices granted an emergency request from... Read More »
Colorado home cooks will soon be able to legally sell tamales, burritos and other refrigerated or meat-filled foods made in their own kitchens under a major expansion of the state’s cottage-food law.The changes take effect January 1 under House Bill 26-1033, known as the “Tamale Act.” Colorado is already preparing... Read More »
European criminal investigations sparked by the Jeffrey Epstein files are expanding, but authorities in several countries say key evidence remains in the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice months after they formally asked for help.Poland has been waiting since April for unredacted Epstein records. Latvia says several requests have... Read More »
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train AI systems and asking a federal court to destroy models and training datasets that incorporate their journalism.The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed September 4 in the U.S.... Read More »
