California is banning AI chatbot toys for children under 16 after safety tests found some products could discuss sexual topics and tell kids where to find knives, pills and matches.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 867 on Sept. 10, creating a four-year moratorium on the manufacture and sale of covered... Read More »
The Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new route Thursday for tokenized stock trading, just two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and stalled Congress’s sweeping effort to rewrite federal rules for cryptocurrency markets.The SEC’s five-year “Innovation Exemption” allows qualifying platforms to facilitate trading in tokenized versions of... Read More »
A federal judge has blocked immigration officers from making warrantless civil arrests across seven Southern California counties unless they first determine that a person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong granted the preliminary injunction Sept. 2. The order covers Los Angeles,... Read More »
Songwriter Cyril Vetter is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge backed by Universal, Sony, Warner and BMG, arguing that the music giants are overstating the fallout from a ruling that allowed him to reclaim worldwide rights to “Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love).”Vetter filed his opposition Monday... Read More »
Boston University has added an AI-free writing requirement for English majors, with newly approved learning outcomes calling on students to demonstrate that they can produce sustained, original writing without artificial intelligence.Associate Professor of English Joseph Rezek said Wednesday that faculty recently voted to approve the updated outcomes. One provision requires... Read More »
The House voted 417-3 Wednesday to advance legislation that could make the nation’s largest AI data centers pay the full cost of power grid upgrades needed to serve them, a bipartisan effort to protect households and small businesses from higher electricity bills.The Ratepayer Protection Act would require state utility regulators... Read More »
The House approved a major sanctions package targeting Russia on Wednesday that could impose tariffs of up to 500% on Russian goods and hit countries that keep buying Russian energy, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump for his expected signature. The measure also extends a key sanctions law against... Read More »
A Paris court awarded Kim Kardashian €1 in damages Tuesday, the exact amount she requested, nearly 10 years after she was bound at gunpoint and robbed of more than $6 million in jewelry during Paris Fashion Week.The symbolic award follows the May 2025 convictions of eight people for their roles... Read More »
ICE agent Christian Castro was arrested in Minneapolis on Wednesday, months after Minnesota charged him with shooting a Venezuelan man through the door of a home and falsely reporting what happened.Castro, 52, was taken into custody by Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents and booked into the Hennepin County Jail.... Read More »
California will require advertisers to tell consumers when a realistic actor selling a product or service was generated by artificial intelligence under a new law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.Senate Bill 1050 requires a clear and conspicuous disclosure when an audio, video or audiovisual advertisement prominently features an AI-generated... Read More »
Two women whose images as girls were found in material seized from Jeffrey Epstein have filed a proposed class action seeking at least $6 million from his estate for more than 40 people allegedly depicted in thousands of pictures and videos of child sexual abuse.Filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court,... Read More »
Steven Tyler’s sexual assault lawsuit has lost its second judge less than two weeks before trial, forcing the case into reassignment as attorneys prepare to determine whether the Sept. 28 start date can remain on track.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patricia A. Young recused herself Tuesday after disclosing a... Read More »
Seventeen biomedical researchers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and other federal defendants Wednesday, alleging the government is censoring federally funded science by targeting research involving subjects and viewpoints the Trump administration disfavors.The proposed class action, filed in... Read More »
The family of a pregnant Texas woman who died from preeclampsia has sued Attorney General Ken Paxton and her medical providers, alleging the state’s abortion restrictions deterred doctors from ending her pregnancy during a medical emergency.Tierra Walker, 37, died in San Antonio on Dec. 30, 2024, while about 20 weeks... Read More »
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was among 64 victims of a $35 million Ponzi scheme that sent investment adviser Siddharth Jawahar to federal prison for 11 years, prosecutors said during his sentencing in Missouri.U.S. District Judge Zachary M. Bluestone sentenced Jawahar, 38, on Tuesday and ordered him to pay... Read More »
