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Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 · Technology

For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children’s mental health through deliberate design choices that addict kids to their platforms and fail to protect…

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Mark Zuckerberg set to testify in watershed social media trial

February 17, 2026February 18, 2026 · Technology

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children. Meta’s…

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Arguments to begin in landmark social media addiction trial set in Los Angeles

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 · Technology

LOS ANGELES — The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their…

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Meta, TikTok and YouTube face landmark trial over youth addiction claims

January 26, 2026January 27, 2026 · Technology

Three of the world’s biggest tech companies face a landmark trial in Los Angeles starting this week over claims that their platforms — Meta’s Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and…

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‘A Team’ of real estate brokers faces sex crimes trial in New York

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 · Finance

NEW YORK — The brothers operated in the glitz and glamour of the Hamptons and South Beach. Two were high-end real estate brokers dubbed “The A Team.” The…

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Immigration officials allow suspect in $100M jewelry heist to self deport, avoiding trial

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 · Breaking News

LOS ANGELES — Federal immigration authorities allowed a suspect in a $100 million jewelry heist believed to be the largest in U.S. history to deport himself to South…

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‘West Wing’ actor Timothy Busfield released from New Mexico jail pending trial

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 · Entertainment

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Actor Timothy Busfield was released from jail Tuesday night in New Mexico, where he is facing counts of child sexual abuse. Hours earlier, Busfield’s attorneys…

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New Mexico judge orders release of actor Timothy Busfield from jail pending child sex abuse case

January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 · Breaking News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A judge ordered that actor Timothy Busfield be released from jail pending trial on child sex abuse charges, at a detention hearing Tuesday. The order…

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Prince Harry’s court battle against British tabloids reaches final chapter

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 · Entertainment

LONDON — Prince Harry has arrived in a London court for the third and final chapter in his legal quest to tame the British tabloids. Harry, also known…

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‘Dances with Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse standing trial in Las Vegas

January 12, 2026January 13, 2026 · Entertainment

LAS VEGAS — The jury trial for Nathan Chasing Horse, the former “Dances with Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls, is expected to begin…

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Harvey Weinstein says jurors were bullied into convicting him. A judge is set to rule

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 · Entertainment

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein returns to court Thursday, seeking to get his latest sex crime conviction thrown out because anger and apprehensions flared…

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Nick Reiner to be arraigned in killing of parents Rob and Michele Singer Reiner

January 7, 2026January 7, 2026 · Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nick Reiner is set to be arraigned and enter a plea Wednesday in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and…

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What to know about the Uvalde school shooting’s first trial over police response

January 2, 2026January 3, 2026 · Breaking News

HOUSTON — Former Uvalde, Texas, schools police Officer Adrian Gonzales was among the first officers to arrive at Robb Elementary after a gunman opened fire on students and…

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seeks immediate release from prison in appeals argument

December 23, 2025December 24, 2025 · Entertainment

NEW YORK — Lawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs urged a federal appeals court in New York late Tuesday to order his immediate release from prison and…

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Luigi Mangione’s Lawyers Acquire a Cult Following of Their Own

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 · Lifestyle

A 32-year-old marketing professional now based in Los Angeles, Kimmy initially became drawn to the case after learning that Mangione is also from Maryland. “Otherwise it’s just another…

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WSJ’s parent firm on trial in Hong Kong, accused of dismissing reporter over union role

December 22, 2025December 28, 2025 · Finance

HONG KONG — A former Hong Kong reporter at the Wall Street Journal began testifying Monday against the newspaper she accuses of terminating her due to her union…

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Advocates raise alarms after Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan found guilty of obstruction

December 19, 2025December 19, 2025 · Breaking News

MADISON, Wis. — Defenders of a Wisconsin judge found guilty of felony obstruction for helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal officers raised alarms Friday about judicial independence and…

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NASCAR settles federal antitrust case, gives all teams the permanent charters they wanted

December 11, 2025December 12, 2025 · Sports

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse as if they were old friends following a…

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Louisiana death row inmate released on bail after decades behind bars

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 · Breaking News

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year.…

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California labor leader pleads not guilty to misdemeanor over immigration protest

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 · Breaking News

LOS ANGELES — The leader of a major labor union in Southern California who was arrested while protesting an immigration raid earlier this year has pleaded not guilty…

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