Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing Netflix for billions of dollars, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children and families for years before using subscriber data to fuel an advertising business it had publicly resisted.The 66-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit... Read More »
The Trump administration is moving to change who counts in the 2030 census, proposing to exclude millions of noncitizens from the population totals used to divide House seats among the states. The shift could cost states with large immigrant populations representation in Congress and Electoral College votes.Under a Census Bureau... Read More »
European criminal investigations sparked by the Jeffrey Epstein files are expanding, but authorities in several countries say key evidence remains in the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice months after they formally asked for help.Poland has been waiting since April for unredacted Epstein records. Latvia says several requests have... Read More »
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train AI systems and asking a federal court to destroy models and training datasets that incorporate their journalism.The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed September 4 in the U.S.... Read More »
The Justice Department accused UC Berkeley School of Law on Wednesday of illegally favoring Black applicants over white and Asian candidates, alleging the school continued to weigh race in admissions after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions in 2023.A joint investigation by the Justice and Education departments found... Read More »
The White House has removed its Tetris-style “Build the Wall” game from its website days after The Tetris Company said it had never authorized the game and was reviewing possible copyright concerns.The immigration-themed game launched Sept. 3 as part of a White House online arcade promoting President Donald Trump’s policies.... Read More »
The American Bar Association’s law school accrediting arm has scrapped its diversity and inclusion requirement as the Trump administration weighs whether to end its federal recognition as the nation’s law school accreditor.The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted 10 to 6 on... Read More »
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service broke federal law when it shared more than 47,000 taxpayer records with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a Trump administration data-sharing system.The unanimous U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld an order blocking the IRS... Read More »
President Donald Trump gave Natalie Harp and two other White House aides $45,000 each in personal cash gifts, according to newly released financial disclosures, drawing scrutiny under a federal law that restricts private payments to government employees for their official work.Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin and White House aide Chamberlain... Read More »
A new documentary about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is renewing interest in one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched criminal fraud cases more than three years after she reported to federal prison.You Can See Everything, a nearly three-hour film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, made a surprise... Read More »
Lindsay Clancy’s defense lawyer asked President Donald Trump to pardon her after her Massachusetts murder trial ended in a mistrial, even though presidential pardon power does not extend to the state murder charges against her.Attorney Kevin Reddington made the appeal Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” asking Trump to consider... Read More »
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh blocked Missouri’s attempt Tuesday to use a Republican-backed congressional map in the November midterms, only for a federal judge to restore the same map minutes later.Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark ordered Missouri to continue using the districts approved by Republican lawmakers in 2025... Read More »
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, says she walked away from a proposed $40 million nondisclosure agreement rather than accept sweeping restrictions on what she could say about the billionaire. She is now speaking publicly in a new documentary that premiered Tuesday at the Venice... Read More »
Brett Favre is back in the spotlight over Mississippi’s massive welfare scandal after a new state report revealed that just $18,000 was recovered during the latest fiscal year from more than $96 million the state auditor says was misspent.The Hall of Fame quarterback received $1.1 million in welfare funds and... Read More »
Grindr will pay £26 million to settle a UK privacy lawsuit involving about 12,000 users who alleged the dating app shared highly sensitive information, including HIV status and testing data, with third-party companies without adequate consent.The settlement ends a two-year group action in the High Court of England and Wales... Read More »
