Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing Netflix for billions of dollars, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children and families for years before using subscriber data to fuel an advertising business it had publicly resisted.The 66-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit... Read More »
The Trump administration is moving to change who counts in the 2030 census, proposing to exclude millions of noncitizens from the population totals used to divide House seats among the states. The shift could cost states with large immigrant populations representation in Congress and Electoral College votes.Under a Census Bureau... Read More »
A new documentary about Alec Baldwin offers a behind-the-scenes look at the actor’s prosecution over the fatal “Rust” shooting, including the moment he learned he had been indicted and the turmoil surrounding a manslaughter case that was ultimately dismissed during trial.The trailer for “The Trial of Alec Baldwin,” directed by... Read More »
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 »
