Cleveland-based television news station WKYC and its affiliates are denying the charges made against it by a former meteorologist. The defendants in the case filed by Hollie Strano, who was dismissed from the news station in September, include WKYC-TV, Tegna National Sales and Finance, and Micki Byrnes, president and general manager of the television station….
The lawsuit stemmed from Trump’s ban from Facebook and Instagram following the January 6th insurrection. The settlement does not require Meta to admit any wrongdoing. The settlement comes amid a series of moves by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen as aligning the company more closely with the political right. Meta, the parent company of Facebook…
Two of the state attorneys general suing to block President Donald Trump‘s attempt to end birthright citizenship told USA TODAY they fear the order will erase funding for children’s health care and education. Eighteen Democratic state attorneys general sued together in a Massachusetts federal court Tuesday, led by the state attorneys general for New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California….
The Supreme Court has upheld a law that could ban TikTok in the United States. With so much uncertainty surrounding the app’s future here, I haven’t been able to grasp its colossal impact on my life. It wasn’t until I began to mentally chronicle my early days on the app that I realized the full…
With the Supreme Court’s move Friday to uphold a ban on video sharing app TikTok, the social media app could be shut down as soon as Sunday. There’s still some uncertainty about TikTok’s future after the court denied parent company ByteDance’s argument that a ban on the app infringes on users’ free speech. That’s because…
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the looming TikTok ban may have corporate consequences far beyond the app’s parent company, impacting American tech giants and the broader U.S. stock market. With Donald Trump returning to the White House the day after the ban is set to take effect, it remains to be seen if and…
The recent buzz around preemptive presidential pardons — especially considering President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon of his son Hunter — should alarm anyone who values justice and accountability. This month, Biden pardoned Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing after pleading guilty to federal tax and gun charges. The president also granted his son clemency for any…
A Tampa-based federal grand jury convened Tuesday morning in an investigation that involves Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno. A sign outside a room at the U.S. District Courthouse in Tampa Tuesday –– the same room as was noted on a Nov. 16 grand jury subpoena involving Marceno –– urged visitors to stand back so as…
(This story has been updated to add new information.) FORT WORTH — A jury found Anthony Ryan Patterson guilty of five counts on Tuesday during his trial for allegations of child sexual abuse and child trafficking. Patterson was found guilty of trafficking, three counts of indecency with a child by exposure and sexual performance by…
ASHEVILLE – HCA Healthcare is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit Buncombe County filed against the Nashville, Tennessee-based health care system earlier this year. In its original complaint, filed Aug. 6 in state superior court and later moved to U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the county alleges staffing…