California lawmakers ended the legislative session Tuesday without voting on a major wildfire liability bill after rejecting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to reduce what electric utilities could owe wildfire victims, insurers and local governments when their equipment sparks catastrophic fires.The Assembly declined to take up Senate Bill 492 on Sept.... Read More »
Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, says he has about $1.2 billion in debt and wants even more, arguing that borrowing to buy income-producing real estate is one of the ways he builds wealth. But most of that $1.2 billion is not debt he personally owes.Kim Kiyosaki,... Read More »
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for the Pentagon to discharge transgender servicemembers who remain protected from its military ban, returning the policy to the justices after they allowed broader enforcement last year.Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition Friday asking the Court... Read More »
Federal prosecutors say Daejon Love posed as a San Francisco 49ers player to gain the trust of women he met on dating apps, then persuaded them to put money into purported investments. Authorities have identified at least 26 alleged victims in a scheme involving about $1.3 million.Love's online persona became... Read More »
A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is warning that a system developed to carry out President Donald Trump’s mail voting rule could delay thousands of ballots ahead of the November midterms, including a shipment of 10,000 ballots if just one fails verification.The anonymous federal official, represented by Whistleblower Aid, alleges USPS... Read More »
A Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder Monday in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, making the former gang leader the first person convicted in the rapper’s death nearly 30 years after the fatal drive-by shooting.Jurors deliberated for less than three hours on Aug.... Read More »
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are pointing to Suno’s licensing deals with Warner Music Group and BMG as they pursue claims that the AI music company used copyrighted recordings without permission to train its models.Suno maintains that its use of copyrighted music for artificial intelligence training is protected... Read More »
AI-generated music is facing new restrictions across streaming services and official charts as the recording industry begins setting rules for how artificial intelligence is disclosed and whether AI-made songs can compete for chart positions.Australia’s ARIA Charts began excluding wholly AI-generated tracks from its Aug. 31 ranking, while the International Federation... Read More »
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, named 14 people on the House floor Monday as Jeffrey Epstein “co-conspirators” who he said should be investigated and prosecuted. He also launched a discharge petition to force a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.The bill would expand access to federal... Read More »
A Florida grand jury found that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration misappropriated $10 million from a Medicaid settlement by directing the money to the Hope Florida Foundation, where most of it later reached political groups. No one was criminally charged because jurors said they could not determine who made the original... Read More »
