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Israel to Sue New York Times Over Article on Rape of Palestinian Detainees, Netanyahu Says

Israel to Sue New York Times Over Article on Rape of Palestinian Detainees, Netanyahu Says

Published by Sam Flores

JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) – Israel plans ⁠to ⁠sue The New York Times ⁠and one of its journalists for defamation over an article ​that said Israeli soldiers, prison guards and settlers had used widespread sexual violence against Palestinian ‌prisoners.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ‌on Thursday he had instructed his legal advisers “to consider the harshest legal action” ⁠against the ⁠newspaper and Nicholas Kristof, a veteran journalist who reported the story ​from the occupied West Bank. “They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and ​Israel’s valiant soldiers,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “We will fight these lies in ⁠the ⁠court of public opinion ⁠and in ​the court of law. Truth will prevail,” he added.      The United Nations and rights groups ​say they have documented ⁠the use of sexual violence by both Israel and Hamas since the militant Palestinian group’s assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered Israel’s war in Gaza.  Netanyahu did not say where …

Federal employees sue USDA secretary over Christian messaging

Federal employees sue USDA secretary over Christian messaging

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Federal employees are suing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, arguing that her use of Christian messaging in the workplace is “unconstitutionally coercive.” The lawsuit, filed Wednesday (May 13) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Rollins “has adopted a practice of sending increasingly proselytizing communications to the entire USDA workforce, promoting her own preferred brand of Christian beliefs and theology to the captive audience of employees that report to her.” The complaint was filed by the advocacy groups Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Democracy Forward Foundation and the California-based firm Bryan Schwartz Law on behalf of the National Federation of Federal Employees and seven named plaintiffs of a variety of faiths and no faith — including Jewish, Buddhist, pagan and atheist employees of the USDA, according to the lawsuit. The union of more than 110,000 federal workers — including more than 19,000 USDA staffers — and the individuals charge that Rollins’ actions do not reflect the secular mission of …

Fani Willis Vows to Sue Over New Georgia Law That Removes Party Labels in Atlanta-Area Elections

Fani Willis Vows to Sue Over New Georgia Law That Removes Party Labels in Atlanta-Area Elections

Published by Sam Flores

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law requiring nonpartisan elections for most local officials in the five most populous counties in the Atlanta area, leading Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and another Democratic prosecutor to threaten to sue over the bill’s constitutionality. Kemp signed the bill privately Tuesday, the final day after Georgia’s 2026 legislative session for the governor to sign or veto bills. Republicans have repeatedly targeted Willis because of her prosecution of Republican President Donald Trump after he pushed to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Georgia in 2020. Willis and DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said the bill violates the Georgia Constitution and promised a lawsuit. “This is a blatant attempt by Republicans to give their candidates an edge in Democratic counties by hiding their party affiliation from voters,” the two Democrats said in a statement Tuesday. State Sen. John Albers, a Republican from the Atlanta suburb of Roswell who pushed the bill, said during the legislative session that he believed it will promote public safety. The …

Five Publishers, Plus Bestselling Author, Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerbuerg

Five Publishers, Plus Bestselling Author, Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerbuerg

Published by Jenni Sidey

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. We’ve got big literary lawsuit news, Oprah’s next book pick, and more. Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg It’s likely that as soon as you read the headline, you can guess what the lawsuit is about. Publishers Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage, alongside bestselling author Scott Turow, are suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement, claiming that the company and its founder illegally used works to train its artificial intelligence program, Llama. As an author, I welcome this kind of action and hope we see a resolution akin to what happened with Anthropic. We teach children in school that you can’t copy and paste someone else’s work without attribution because that’s called plagiarism, but AI companies don’t seem to heed that very simple standard. Where and How to Watch The Librarians Film The highly acclaimed (and must-watch!) documentary The Librarians will only be streaming on PBS for a …

Grandkids Sue After Their Rich Grandpa Willed Them A Small Inheritance

Grandkids Sue After Their Rich Grandpa Willed Them A Small Inheritance

Published by Jenni Sidey

Family dynamics can be tricky, especially when a falling out has occurred. Things can get really messy when a family member passes away, and it’s time to dole out inheritances. That’s exactly what happened to one British family. The grandkids were left up in arms after learning their grandfather only left them a measly inheritance despite his abundant wealth. While they sound a bit greedy at first blush, there’s a whole lot more going on behind the scenes that might have you thinking twice about their complaints. One grandfather in the UK only left his grandchildren the equivalent of $64 each, but they felt they should have gotten more. Frederick “Fred” Ward Sr., a former cable joiner and soldier from London, split his $640,000 estate among family members in his will in an unconventional way, according to The Sun.  His original plan had been to split it evenly between his three children. Unfortunately, one of his kids, Fred Jr., predeceased him. It would make sense, then, that his share of the inheritance would go to his …

Families sue OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge mass shooter’s use of ChatGPT : NPR

Families sue OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge mass shooter’s use of ChatGPT : NPR

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A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a deadly mass shooting that took place in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that OpenAI was negligent for failing to report the shooter to authorities after her account was flagged for “gun violence activity and planning.” Paige Taylor White/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paige Taylor White/AFP via Getty Images Families of those injured and killed in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia are suing OpenAI for negligence and providing a dangerously defective version of ChatGPT to the shooter. The seven suits, filed in federal court in San Francisco, allege that OpenAI failed to take actions that could have prevented injuries and deaths in the shooting, which took place on February 10. They claim that the company failed to report the shooter’s conversations with ChatGPT to authorities, and that ChatGPT itself was a defective product that did not challenge the shooter or direct her to seek real-world help. The suits are the latest …

Voting Rights Groups Sue To Stop DOJ From Collecting State Voter Lists

Voting Rights Groups Sue To Stop DOJ From Collecting State Voter Lists

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on April 21 seeking to block the Department of Justice (DOJ) from collecting, compiling, and analyzing state voter registration lists. As of April 1, the DOJ has sued 30 states, including Washington, for failing to turn over voter rolls. The department has said the U.S. attorney general has congressional authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to seek election records from states to check for improper voter registrations. The groups filed a complaint on April 21, accusing the DOJ of seeking to use the sensitive data to build what they described as a “sprawling new voter surveillance and purging apparatus” without congressional authorization. The complaint alleges that the department attempted to usurp states’ authority to oversee election administration and impose its own “secretive ’verification procedures’” to identify ineligible voters. “Never before has a federal agency centralized this volume of Americans’ voting data in a single system of records,” it stated. “And in doing so, DOJ has flouted statutory safeguards designed …

Rideshare Drivers Sue Uber Over Being Kicked off App in New Challenge to California Law

Rideshare Drivers Sue Uber Over Being Kicked off App in New Challenge to California Law

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Uber has failed to create an appeals system to give drivers due process when they’re kicked off the app, violating the California law it carved out that declared app-based drivers independent contractors, a lawsuit filed Monday alleges. In 2020, voters approved Proposition 22, a ballot initiative that exempted Uber and other app platforms from labor law and allowed them to keep classifying their workers as contractors instead of employees. The measure included a promise that drivers would have an appeals process. Rideshare Drivers United, a drivers group that says it has about 20,000 members in California, said Monday that because Uber has violated Prop. 22 by not delivering on all its promises, it should not be allowed to continue to assert that its drivers are independent contractors. “Uber has not met the conditions to take advantage of Prop. 22,” Shannon Liss-Riordan, a Massachusetts-based lawyer who has challenged Uber and other gig companies for years and is representing the California group, told CalMatters. Many deactivated drivers report that they struggle to appeal their cases. They say …

Historians sue DOJ over presidential records opinion : NPR

Historians sue DOJ over presidential records opinion : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

A flag featuring Donald Trump waves amid a small group of his supporters near Mar-a-Lago in May 2024 in Palm Beach, Fla. Alon Skuy/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alon Skuy/Getty Images Over the past year, President Trump has bulldozed through multiple restraints on his power. He’s fired watchdogs, dismantled agencies, and declared emergencies to impose tariffs and mobilize troops. Now, he’s shrugging off a law Congress passed decades ago to preserve White House papers — and historians are taking him to court. At stake is the fate of millions of papers and electronic messages — not just for Trump’s second term in office, but for future presidents and people who want to understand them. Matthew Connelly, a history professor at Columbia University, says the move shows Trump is trying to ensure the presidency “is answerable to no one, not even the court of history.” “This latest case is just another example of the utter contempt with which they hold not just history but the rights of their fellow citizens to hold them to account,” …