London — European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm, said it was investigating the companies for “non-compliance” with the Digital Markets Act. The Digital Markets … Read more
New Delhi — Indian food lovers have made butter chicken a staple item on virtually every menu featuring the Asian nation’s cuisine around the globe. But who invented it? Two Indian restaurant chains are locked in a legal battle to settle the dispute over which of them actually created the hugely popular dish, along with … Read more
Washington — A federal appeals court in Washington said Friday that former President Donald Trump is not currently entitled to broad immunity from civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. The unanimous opinion from the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals … Read more
A woman has alleged in a lawsuit that actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx sexually assaulted her at a rooftop bar in New York in 2015, an incident the actor says “never happened.” The lawsuit filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan by a woman known in the documents only as Jane Doe alleges … Read more
Daryl Hall has filed a restraining order against his one-time musical collaborator, John Oates. The pair made up the pop rock duo Hall & Oates, and put out 18 studio albums together between 1972 and 2006. Hall filed the temporary restraining order request in a Nashville Chancery Court on Nov. 16. Oates and the co-defendants … Read more
Like many Black women, Jessica Harris started using hair relaxers when she was just a pre-teen. Cultural pressures and beauty standards led the young girl, growing up in Wilson, to believe that was what she needed to do. “Since probably I was about 13 or something,” she said. Now, she’s fighting ovarian cancer for the … Read more
Ivanka Trump didn’t want to testify. But on the the stand Wednesday in her father’s civil fraud trial, she took the opportunity to contend the family business has “overdelivered,” even as she kept her distance from financial documents that New York state says were fraudulent. Former President Donald Trump’s elder daughter capped a major stretch in … Read more
Minors and parents suing Meta Inc.’s Facebook and other technology giants for the kids’ social media platform addictions won an important ruling advancing their collection of lawsuits in a California court. A state judge on Friday threw out most of the claims but said she’ll allow the lawsuits to advance based on a claim that … Read more
Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is set to be summoned by Epic Games Inc. to testify in an antitrust trial over Google Play policies, according to Court filings Sundar Pichai will testify in an upcoming antitrust trial regarding Google Play’s policies which could potentially impact billions of dollars in the app marketplace revenue, reported … Read more
Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho announced Tuesday morning that his office has filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Sacramento over its response to the growing unhoused population in the area.Ho said he filed the lawsuit around 9 a.m.“The community is at a breaking point,” Ho said in a press conference where other … Read more