By Sean Burch

Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson on Monday was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for attempting to defraud investors by lying about the financial health of his now-defunct company.

Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, called Watson’s plan an “audacious scheme” to rip off tens of millions of dollars from his investors.

By Sean Burch

TikTok filed another emergency petition on Monday, this time with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to temporarily block a law that will ban the popular app from the States next month.

The app, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, said the law tramples on the First Amendment rights of its 170 million monthly users. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law banning TikTok from the U.S. starting Jan. 19, 2025, unless its Chinese owners sell its American business.

By Sharon Knolle and Tess Patton

Anxiety in the LGBTQ community is spiking as Donald Trump’s second term nears, with gay couples rushing to get married and others going so far as to leave the country, or at least contemplate such a drastic move. 

Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi didn’t wait for Trump to be sworn in again before moving from California to the Cotswolds in the U.K. —  and they’re not alone.