On Thursday, Google (GOOGL.O) persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss a proposed class action over its alleged misuse of personal and copyrighted data to train artificial-intelligence systems, including its chatbot Bard. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin dismissed the case, citing concerns raised by another California judge in a related lawsuit against OpenAI…
Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law testified on Thursday that she found his gun and threw it away out of fear of his spiraling addiction. This testimony could bolster prosecutors’ case that President Joe Biden’s son broke a law barring illegal drug users from owning firearms. Jurors in the first criminal trial of a U.S. president’s child watched…
Hunter Biden’s former girlfriend testified about his near-constant crack cocaine use at lavish hotels during the criminal trial where prosecutors aim to prove that U.S. President Joe Biden’s son lied about his addiction to illegally buy a gun. Jurors heard that Hunter Biden prepared crack at the ritzy Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles or spent…
A Georgia appeals court paused the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of seeking to subvert the 2020 election. The court will consider Trump’s bid to disqualify lead prosecutor Fani Willis, according to a court order on Wednesday. This order stops the case against Trump and 14 co-defendants from moving toward trial while Trump appeals a…
On Tuesday, Donald Trump asked the judge who oversaw his criminal trial on charges related to hush money paid to a porn star to lift a gag order on the case. The former U.S. president was convicted last week. Before the trial began in April, Justice Juan Merchan restricted Trump’s public statements about jurors, witnesses,…
On Tuesday, a Pennsylvania judge reduced a $2.25 billion U.S. verdict against Bayer (BAYGn.DE) to $400 million. This decision involved a Pennsylvania man, John McKivison, who claimed he developed cancer from exposure to the company’s Roundup weedkiller. A jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas determined that McKivison’s non-Hodgkins lymphoma resulted from using Roundup…
On Tuesday, prosecutors in the historic criminal trial of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden told jurors that overwhelming evidence shows Hunter lied to hide his drug addiction so he could illegally buy a gun. The defense argued that he had no intent to deceive. In federal court in Delaware, jurors heard opening statements from…
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) must pay $260 million to an Oregon woman who developed mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to asbestos exposure, after inhaling the company’s talc powder, a jury ruled on Monday. The verdict from the 4th Judicial District Circuit Court in Portland comes as Johnson & Johnson continues to pursue a proposed $6.48…
A Georgia appeals court will hear arguments in October to determine whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald Trump for attempting to overturn his 2020 defeat, a schedule likely to postpone the trial until after the Nov. 5 election. The court will examine whether Willis’ past affair with her former…
On Monday, a jury began the trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges, marking a historic criminal prosecution of a sitting president’s son that could impact the 2024 presidential election. Hunter Biden, 54, faces trial at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware. This event occurred four days after Republican Donald Trump, the Democratic president’s rival…
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