A Florida grand jury found that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration misappropriated $10 million from a Medicaid settlement by directing the money to the Hope Florida Foundation, where most of it later reached political groups. No one was criminally charged because jurors said they could not determine who made the original... Read More »
Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to women who accused the bank of helping facilitate Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation after a federal judge approved a settlement in Manhattan.U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff entered final judgment Friday following an August 27 approval hearing. The agreement covers women who were... 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 »
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 »
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 »
Mansfield Oil Company has sued KRSM Inc. for nearly $4 million, alleging the fuel dealer failed to pay for more than 1.1 million gallons of gasoline, some of which was later supplied to stations in the Freedom Fuel Network praised by President Donald Trump.The lawsuit, filed August 19 in the... Read More »
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a charge against Wisconsin resident Steven Anderegg for privately possessing obscene AI-generated sexual images depicting fictional children in his home, finding that existing Supreme Court precedent protects that narrow form of possession under the First Amendment. Separate federal charges accusing him... Read More »
Connecticut has sued prediction market operator Kalshi, alleging the company is offering sports betting without a state gaming license and seeking court orders to stop the contracts from being offered to residents. The lawsuit adds to a broader legal fight over whether sports prediction markets fall under federal commodities regulation... Read More »
A federal judge on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s latest bid to move his New York hush money conviction into federal court, finding that the request came too late and that evidence Trump claimed was protected by presidential immunity involved personal rather than official conduct.U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein also... Read More »
Six Flags Magic Mountain has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of Christopher Hawley, a 22-year-old man who died after riding the park’s X2 roller coaster in 2022, ending the case shortly before a Los Angeles County jury trial was set to begin.Hawley, a recent San Diego... Read More »
A D.C. judge released a California man accused of bringing a 10-foot guillotine near the U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting prosecutors’ request to keep him jailed while he faces a misdemeanor weapons charge.Philan Tam Duy Le, 35, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attempted possession of a prohibited weapon. U.S. Capitol Police... Read More »
Meta Platforms has agreed to impose daily time limits and overnight restrictions on Instagram and Facebook users under 18 as part of a proposed multistate settlement worth up to $17.1 billion. The agreement would resolve claims that the company used harmful design features, misled families about youth safety and violated... Read More »
A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, finding that her constitutional claims and evidence from newly released Jeffrey Epstein files did not provide grounds to set aside the verdict.U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied Maxwell’s habeas corpus petition... Read More »
Zillow and Redfin have agreed to settle an FTC antitrust case over their $100 million rental listings deal, with Redfin required to reenter the rental advertising market and compete independently with Zillow under a proposed federal court order.The settlement would keep the companies' rental listings partnership in place while removing... Read More »
A coalition representing hundreds of New York City grocers and bodegas has filed two lawsuits seeking to block Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $70 million plan for five city-owned grocery stores, arguing that public support for the program will place immigrant and minority-owned businesses at an unlawful disadvantage.The Multicultural Business Coalition filed... Read More »
