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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here 0
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- August 21, 2026
My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial. In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark social media case in California, in which a jury found the companies liable for harming
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Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO is mentally fit for sex trafficking trial, judge says 0
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- August 21, 2026
NEW YORK — The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is mentally competent to stand trial as he faces sex trafficking charges after being hospitalized for months for dementia and Alzheimer’s symptoms, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury, in her Thursday decision, concluded that Michael Jeffries “clearly possesses a rational and
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Court slashes $50M judgment against Alex Jones over falsely calling shooting a hoax 0
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- August 21, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas court has slashed the $50 million judgment to $1.5 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling 2012 school shooting a hoax. The ruling does not affect a $1.4 billion judgement against Jones in Connecticut, but is a significant legal victory for Jones after he and his company, Free
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Federal court is asked to block Kennedy Center from returning Trump’s name to building 0
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- August 21, 2026
WASHINGTON — Rep. Joyce Beatty made an emergency request on Thursday that a federal court block the Kennedy Center from returning President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Trump-aligned board at the Kennedy Center voted earlier this month to inscribe the president’s name on the venue’s facade so it would read “The John F.
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Michael Cohen is hosting President Trump on his radio show 0
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- August 20, 2026
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to appear Thursday on the radio show of his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen, making a public reunion with the man who once called him a “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and testified against him both in court and before Congress. Cohen, who served prison time for his role in what
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Missouri court rejects petition proposing protections for laws passed by citizen initiative 0
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- August 20, 2026
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri court has rejected a request to let voters decide in November whether to erect some of the nation’s strongest protections for laws and constitutional amendments passed by citizen initiative. Citizen initiatives are placed on the ballot in Missouri if voters collect enough signatures. The secretary of state can reject
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