Wendy Williams' court-appointed guardian has reached a settlement in the lawsuit filed over Lifetime's controversial 2024 documentary "Where Is Wendy Williams?", closing out a legal fight that began before the two-part series even aired. Court documents show that Sabrina Morrissey, who serves as Williams' guardian, joined with the defendants, including... Read More »
23andMe has reached an $18 million settlement with 41 states and the District of Columbia over claims that cybersecurity failures allowed hackers to access information tied to 6.9 million customers in a 2023 data breach.The agreement resolves government claims against the former parent company of 23andMe, now known as Chrome... Read More »
A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers whose copyrighted books were downloaded from pirate libraries as the artificial intelligence company built the systems behind its Claude chatbot.U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved the agreement Monday, resolving class claims... Read More »
Television personality and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary is facing a defamation lawsuit after publicly accusing critics of his proposed artificial intelligence data center project in Utah of having ties to China. The lawsuit, filed last Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, alleges that O’Leary made false... Read More »
Prosecutors opened a closely watched preliminary hearing in the murder case against musician D4vd on Tuesday by presenting graphic photographic evidence of the dismembered remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The proceeding marked the first major courtroom presentation of evidence since the singer's arrest earlier this year.David Anthony Burke, the... Read More »
Nicki Minaj is fighting to remove herself personally from a lawsuit alleging she owes $275,000 to a concert production company, with her attorneys arguing the case amounts to little more than an attempt to target a celebrity with deep pockets.24/7 Productions filed suit against Minaj and her company, Pink Friday... Read More »
Offset will not serve any jail time on a misdemeanor assault charge connected to a confrontation with a security guard at a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary, after a judge signed off on a diversion agreement that could ultimately wipe the case from his record.A Los Angeles judge granted the Migos... Read More »
New York City almost certainly lacks the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu solely because he enters the city, despite an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said the city’s Law Department is examining what authority New York officials might have... Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate Minnesota laws and local policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, handing the state and several local governments a significant victory in the continuing dispute over so-called sanctuary jurisdictions.Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud ruled on July... Read More »
President Donald Trump is rebuilding his tariff program around older trade laws that expressly authorize import duties, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the sweeping tariffs he imposed under a federal emergency-powers statute.The new strategy has produced 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods under a rarely used provision... Read More »
