A Chicago police officer who went on to investigate homicides has been identified as the killer of an 8-year-old girl abducted and shot to death while walking to church in 1960. The breakthrough came more than six decades later, after investigators uncovered forensic evidence linking him to the murder.A fingerprint... Read More »
Actress Selma Blair has pleaded not guilty to assault charges after allegedly attacking a police officer and hospital nurse following a disturbance aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in which two flight attendants were injured, while federal authorities separately pursue allegations involving the crew.Blair, 54, appeared in Queens Criminal Court... Read More »
Russell Brand's trial on seven rape and sexual assault-related charges involving six women began Monday in London, where a judge questioned prospective jurors about their exposure to earlier media allegations against the comedian before selecting a panel to hear the case.Brand, 51, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on October 12,... Read More »
Reddit is fighting to prevent its former law firm, Proskauer Rose, from representing Perplexity AI in a federal data-scraping lawsuit, alleging that the firm dropped the social media company to take on its courtroom opponent despite an earlier promise to stay out of the case.In competing filings submitted October 9,... Read More »
FIFA is asking a federal judge in Puerto Rico to throw out an antitrust lawsuit after attorneys representing a now-defunct soccer league failed to pay nearly $24,500 in sanctions over court filings containing 55 defective legal citations that raised suspicions of artificial intelligence misuse.In an October 6, 2026, filing, soccer's... Read More »
USA Today and publishers representing 19 newspapers are seeking more than $250 million from OpenAI and a court order to destroy AI models and training datasets allegedly containing their copyrighted journalism. The lawsuit accuses the company behind ChatGPT of copying hundreds of thousands of news articles without permission to train... Read More »
Federal agents raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home before dawn on Monday, October 12, 2026, as part of an investigation into possible immigration fraud, just 22 days before the Minnesota congresswoman faces reelection.Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, executed... Read More »
Summer Walker is facing a lawsuit seeking at least $50 million after declaring she was walking away from her Interscope Records contract with the Universal Music Group-owned label, claiming the R&B singer still owes two studio albums and an EP under a deal she signed nearly a decade ago.In a... Read More »
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., struck down the Trump administration's nationwide policy of collecting state voter rolls and using federal immigration records to identify suspected noncitizens for removal, ruling that the Justice Department exceeded its legal authority and violated federal privacy protections.U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan issued the... Read More »
Las Vegas police have paid Kirstin “Blaise” Lobato $29.5 million after a federal jury found that two detectives fabricated evidence that helped send her to prison for a murder she did not commit. Lobato was arrested at 18 and spent nearly 16 years behind bars before her convictions were overturned.Her... Read More »
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