Topline Coalitions of Democratic state attorneys general and nonprofits announced lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday over its guidance temporarily pausing nearly all federal assistance, the first in what’s expected to be a series of lawsuits taking aim at the guidance as legal experts argue it’s unlawful. President Donald Trump speaks during a news […]
Wendy Williams is speaking out against her guardianship. The former daytime talk show host and radio personality has been under a guardianship since 2022, as her care team alleges that Williams’s health has been in decline after she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and progressive aphasia. But during a recent call to the popular radio […]
Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterJan 15, 2025, 01:00 PM ET Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. A woman who accused Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her after an NBA Finals game in 2023 has filed a lawsuit against […]
The best argument against releasing a sequel to Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick‘s terrific 1028 thriller A Simple Favor is also the reason the movie is so hotly anticipated. How do you top the original film’s jaw-dropping twists and turns (Incest! Pantsuits! A shared Henry Golding!) without selling out its end-carded happy ending? Should director […]
Ann Altman has filed a lawsuit against her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging that he sexually abused her throughout childhood over a period of nearly a decade. The rest of the Altman family immediately pushed back on the lawsuitsaying the allegations are “utterly untrue” and stem from “mental health challenges” that Ann has faced […]
It may be a new year, but the hacks, scams, and dangerous people lurking online haven’t gone anywhere. Just a day before the ball dropped, the United States Treasury Department said it had been hacked. Officials believe the attackers are an as-yet-unidentified Advanced Persistent Threat group linked to China’s government that exploited flaws in remote […]
A judge has denied Jay-Z’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl more than two decades ago. In the lawsuit, originally filed in October, a woman identified only as “Jane Doe” sued Combs for allegedly raping her at a party following the 2000 MTV Video […]
As Taylor Swift headed into Arrowhead Stadium Saturday, you’d never know that she’d just been named in what might have been the biggest news story of the day. She was just another woman at the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Houston Texans, albeit one in an extremely kicky coat. As you, of course, understand, […]
In a bombshell legal filing, It Ends With Us star Blake Lively is claiming that its co-star/director Justin Baldoni and a producer of the film hired a public relations team to turn the tide of public opinion against her. According to Lively, the alleged smear campaign was a retaliatory measure after Baldoni and producer Jamey […]
In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. As the pandemic raged, the lawsuit hardly registered outside the small world of nerds obsessed with copyright rules. […]
