Child sexual abuse charges against The West Wing actor Timothy Busfield have been thrown out after a New Mexico judge found that prosecutors improperly blocked witnesses sought by grand jurors, undermining the proceedings that led to his indictment.State District Judge Joseph Montano dismissed the four-count indictment on October 16, 2026,... Read More »
Former MIT scientist David Sabatini won a $6 million defamation verdict against a former colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct, after a Massachusetts jury rejected her claims of sexual harassment and retaliation. The October 16, 2026, decision followed a five-year legal battle that began when the allegations derailed the... Read More »
The Arizona Supreme Court has unanimously approved Grand Canyon University's new law school, allowing its graduates to take the state bar exam and pursue careers as licensed attorneys without attending a program accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). The October 15, 2026, decision marks the first approval of its... Read More »
A 19-year-old New York man faces a possible life sentence after federal prosecutors accused him of giving two Fashion Institute of Technology students fentanyl disguised as cocaine, then raping one of the women while she was unconscious. The student never regained consciousness and died three days later, while her roommate... Read More »
Tempe has become the first city in Arizona to outlaw police-operated license plate readers, shutting the door on Flock-style surveillance systems even as the new law leaves officers a way to obtain vehicle-tracking data collected elsewhere.The City Council approved the ban in a 6-1 vote on October 15, 2026, adopting... Read More »
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI chatbot, has privately pitched lawmakers its own federal AI safety bill that would restrict when the government can block dangerous artificial intelligence models, even as it establishes new oversight requirements for the industry.Under the proposal, federal officials could seek to suspend an advanced... Read More »
Adults who sexually groom children in Minnesota can now face felony charges carrying up to five years in prison, even if no sexual contact occurs, under a law signed by Gov. Tim Walz that took effect August 1, 2026.Walz signed House File 3489 on May 27, 2026, creating a criminal... Read More »
OpenAI is facing a proposed nationwide class action accusing the company of using children's private ChatGPT conversations to train artificial intelligence models without valid parental consent. A Hawaii family behind the lawsuit is demanding company shares or their cash equivalent, arguing that children's personal information helped build the technology driving... Read More »
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have struck a deal to ban Central Park's horse-drawn carriages by June 2028, advancing legislation that could end the city's 168-year-old carriage industry after decades of failed attempts to shut it down.The agreement, announced October 13, 2026, advances... Read More »
Cornell University has banned parties and social events at fraternity houses for the remainder of the 2026-27 academic year after a former student accused seven fraternity members of drugging and gang-raping her. Any chapter that violates the restrictions faces an immediate emergency suspension under the university's new zero-tolerance policy.University President... Read More »
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 »
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 »
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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