A transgender woman has been arrested in Florida after using a women’s restroom at the state Capitol, marking what could be the first known arrest under the state’s controversial 2023 bathroom law. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old from Illinois, was taken into custody two weeks ago and charged with trespassing, according to a report by the…
Google has agreed to a $28 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company favored white and Asian employees over others in terms of pay and career advancement. The lawsuit, led by former employee Ana Cantu, claimed that Hispanic, Indigenous, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Alaska Native employees were systematically…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally requested a federal court in Texas to lift a temporary injunction on its lawsuit against SpaceX. The lawsuit accuses the Elon Musk-led aerospace company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants. The DOJ’s motion, filed Thursday, February 20, 2025, seeks to end the year-long pause on the…
Former PIX11 News anchor Ojinika Obiekwe has filed a racial and gender discrimination lawsuit against the station. She alleging in the lawsuit that she was underpaid, overworked, and wrongfully terminated in retaliation for raising concerns about workplace inequality. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims that…