AI-generated nude and sexual deepfakes can now lead to criminal charges under federal law and in a growing number of states, as lawmakers move to punish realistic sexual images created or shared without a person's consent.The rules remain a patchwork. Federal law largely targets publication, while states including Florida, Texas... Read More »
Amazon was sued Monday by the Federal Trade Commission and 22 states over allegations that it secretly changed how its advertising auctions set prices and overcharged about 1.2 million U.S. advertisers by more than $20 billion.Filed August 31 in federal court in Washington state, the lawsuit claims Amazon altered the... Read More »
Singer D4vd pleaded not guilty Monday in the murder case involving 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and replaced his private attorneys with lawyers from the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office.The 21-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, faces charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under... Read More »
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos has received the first lifetime ban in Kalshi’s history and was fined $71,356 after the prediction market concluded that he improperly traded contracts tied to his own attendance at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.Santos made nearly $18,000 trading on whether he would... Read More »
Meta has won dismissal of a federal antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of using Instagram Shopping to monopolize shopping on social media, with a California judge finding that Winstag owner Ollywan Limited had not provided enough facts to support its claims of monopoly power and harm to competition.U.S. Magistrate Judge... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to keep building his $400 million White House ballroom, ruling 5-4 that the historic preservation group challenging the project is unlikely to have the legal standing needed to stop construction.The decision keeps a lower court injunction on hold, allowing above-ground work... Read More »
Jurors began deliberating Monday in the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis after prosecutors argued that his own words show he helped orchestrate the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur and that his later attempts to distance himself from those accounts are not credible.Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told... Read More »
Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway’s Queen Mette-Marit, has been granted temporary leave from electronically monitored custody to attend funeral events for King Harald V, less than three months after he was convicted of two rapes and sentenced to four years in prison.Prosecutors authorized Høiby, 29, to leave the... Read More »
Google Maps is now showing Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States after President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to adopt the new name. The change brings the federal designation onto one of the world's most widely used mapping platforms.Google said U.S. users will see... Read More »
Across the United States, the need for mental health and substance use treatment has become impossible to separate from the question of access. Families can recognize when someone is struggling, patients can have insurance coverage, and doctors can recommend treatment, but none of that helps much if an appointment is... Read More »
