California and 21 other states sued the Trump administration Monday to stop a new rule that would let immigration officers consider Medicaid, food assistance and other public benefits when deciding whether some immigrants qualify for green cards.The rule is set to take effect Sept. 18, giving federal officers broader discretion... Read More »
Ford is recalling 223,472 F-150 pickup trucks from the 2023 through 2027 model years because their fuel tanks may not be properly secured and can leak or detach while the vehicles are being driven.A detached tank can become a road hazard and increase the risk of a crash. Leaking fuel... Read More »
The House voted Tuesday for the third time to end U.S. military involvement in the war with Iran, with seven Republicans joining Democrats to direct President Donald Trump to remove American forces from hostilities against the country.The 220 to 204 vote on September 15 drew the largest Republican support yet... Read More »
Federal investigators examining Hayden Panettiere’s death are zeroing in on years of text messages between the actress and a man authorities believe supplied her with drugs, including conversations about buying pills on the black market that continued through the week she died.The messages have become a central part of the... Read More »
Lady Gaga is asking a federal judge to make Lost Surfboards pay $232,484 in legal fees after she defeated its Mayhem trademark lawsuit, accusing the surf company of using the case as a "publicity stunt" to pressure her into a settlement.The singer asked U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin on... Read More »
Savannah Guthrie renewed her public plea Tuesday for whoever took her mother, Nancy Guthrie, to bring her home more than seven months after the 84-year-old disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home.“We just want our mom home \[to] give her a proper goodbye,” Guthrie said on NBC’s “Today,” her voice breaking... Read More »
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie moved Tuesday to force a House vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, filing eight articles that accuse one of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet officials of violating federal war powers law over the Iran war and abusing the Pentagon’s authority in several other military operations.Massie introduced... Read More »
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into Donald Trump Jr.’s relationship with a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin after reporting found he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the president’s son’s wedding celebrations in the Bahamas.Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s ranking Democrat,... Read More »
Nick Reiner will face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted of killing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, after Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday that they will not seek the death penalty.District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said his office reached the decision after reviewing... Read More »
Lineage is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from three companies it blames for the massive June fire that destroyed its Boyle Heights cold-storage facility, alleging the rooftop solar system was energized despite unresolved safety concerns in the days before the blaze.The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior... Read More »
A California judge has ordered a lawyer for State Farm to pay $999.99 after finding seven nonexistent case citations in pretrial filings, errors the attorney said stemmed from her use of an artificial intelligence legal research tool.Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth L. Bradley imposed the sanction on Jacquelene Robinson,... Read More »
A federal judge has again blocked efforts to place President Donald Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center, ruling that the board overseeing the performing arts institution cannot rename the building, its grounds or its public spaces without approval from Congress.U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper issued the ruling Tuesday, September 15,... Read More »
A federal appeals court is weighing another challenge to mifepristone, the medication used in most abortions in the United States, in a case that could affect whether patients can continue receiving the drug through telehealth and the mail.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard arguments September 9... Read More »
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is threatening to move one of Hollywood's oldest studios out of Los Angeles as an antitrust fight stalls his $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery and pushes the deal toward a costly new deadline.Ellison has signaled that he is prepared to sell Paramount's historic... Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed fiduciary-duty claims against two doctors involved in denying a former NFL player’s neurocognitive disability benefits, drawing a significant legal line between physicians who influence benefit decisions and the officials who ultimately administer an employee benefit plan.U.S. District Judge Edward S. Kiel of the District of... Read More »
