Public Policy & Legal
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Former FTC Commissioner Warns Rachel Maddow the Agency Has Become a ‘Billionaire’s Fan Club’
“It’s not going to matter who is in the right,” Alvaro Bedoya explains on MS NOW after being fired by Trump in March 2025
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Blake Lively Wants $8 Million in Attorneys’ Fees From Justin Baldoni
The update comes nearly two months after the “It Ends With Us” co-stars reached a settlement ahead of trial
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Nancy Guthrie Sheriff Defends Arresting YouTubers Outside Missing Matriarch’s Home: ‘Have Some Respect’
“I didn’t want to have to book anybody, but it got to a point … I had enough,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos adds
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Trump-Appointed Supreme Court Justice Expresses Concern Over Political Weaponization of FCC, FTC
“As we’ve seen, these agencies were never truly independent from politics,” Justice Neil Gorsuch writes in his concurrent decision
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Director Carl Rinsch Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for $11 Million Netflix Production Fraud
The director was convicted of fraud and money laundering in December
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Kevin Spacey Says Career Is ‘Moving in the Direction That We Hoped’ After Sexual Assault Trials: ‘I Feel Less in Jail’
“If I had been a sports figure, I would have been benched for seven games,” the actor, who has been accused of sexual misconduct and harassment, tells Bill Maher
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DGA Sues MGM Over ‘Sweetheart’ Licensing Deal Made to Skew Pension Payments
The studio is accused of using its MGM+ streaming service to circumvent making payments to the union
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Mike White, Universal and Illumination Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Animated Film ‘Migration’
“The similarities between the [movies] are so substantial that it seems unlikely that the former could possibly have been created independently from the latter,” the complaint says
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Harvey Weinstein California Rape Conviction Upheld in Appeals Court, Judge Orders Resentencing
“We are disappointed … At the same time, the court correctly recognized that his sentence cannot stand,” a spokesperson for the disgraced mogul says
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OpenAI and Microsoft Sued for Mass Copyright Infringement by News Publisher Coalition
The complaint alleges the corporation’s AI programs illegally scraped the news groups’ nearly 400 outlets
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Palisades Arson Case
Former Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht faced three federal charges tied to the destructive blaze from January 2025
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The Pope Says It’s Impossible to Call AI ‘Morally Neutral’ in Latest Call to Action
“Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes,” Pope Leo XIV writes
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Accuses Disney’s ABC of ‘Misinformation Campaign’ Amid ‘The View,’ Broadcast License Reviews
The regulator has been flooded with over 52,000 public comments after the network launched a viewer awareness campaign
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Harvey Weinstein Rape Charge Dropped as Accuser Declines to Prosecute After 2 Mistrials
However, the disgraced mogul will remain behind bars due to his other New York sexual felony conviction, as well as those in California
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Bill Gates Believes Jeffrey Epstein ‘Contemplated’ Blackmailing Him Over His Extramarital Affairs
“These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family,” the Microsoft co-founder adds
