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Kash Patel vows to sue over Atlantic article claiming alcohol abuse

Kash Patel vows to sue over Atlantic article claiming alcohol abuse

Published by Sam Flores

FBI Director Kash Patel arrives at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said Sunday he is suing The Atlantic magazine over a recent article reporting that he frequently drinks alcohol to excess. Patel said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that he would be bringing a lawsuit for defamation on Monday. “We are not going to take this laying down,” Patel said. “You want to attack my character? Come at me, bring it on. I’ll see you in court.” Pressed if he was planning to sue the magazine, Patel said, “[A]bsolutely, it’s coming tomorrow.” “We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel,” Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, said in a statement to CNBC. Read more CNBC politics coverage The magazine on Friday published a detailed article citing more than two-dozen sources that made bombshell claims about Patel’s behavior. The sources told the magazine that Patel frequently drinks to the point of conspicuous intoxication, and that his …

Coronation Street star Sue Devaney addresses Debbie’s exit amid her huge storyline

Coronation Street star Sue Devaney addresses Debbie’s exit amid her huge storyline

Published by Sam Flores

Coronation Street legend Sue Devaney has opened up on her forthcoming exit from the soap, as her character Debbie Webster struggles with early-onset vascular dementia. Debbie was diagnosed in April 2025, and the storyline will ultimately lead to Devaney’s departure. In a new interview, the former Dinnerladies favourite opened up about leaving the show, vowing to “make the most” of the time she has left on the job. “I think when an actor gets to a certain age they think, ‘This is quite nice. I can go home every night, I can have my tea, I’m not living out of a suitcase.’ And it’s nice to have a regular wage, because as an actor you never know what’s next,” she told BANG Showbiz (via Female First). ITV Related: Best streaming services UK 2026 “So as you get older you think, ‘This is quite nice.’ But if it’s not to be, it’s not to be. “It’s only in soap where you think, ‘I’ve got a job for a while.’ But we never know when it’s going …

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird announce split after a decade together

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird announce split after a decade together

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have separated after nearly 10 years together. Bird, a former basketball standout, and Rapinoe, a retired soccer star, announced their breakup in a joint Instagram post shared Friday. “This hasn’t been an easy decision, but it’s one we’ve made together with so much love, respect, and care for each other,” they wrote. “We’ve shared a whole life over the last decade, through big moments and in quiet ones, and that is something we’ll always carry with us.” They continued: “We are so grateful to this incredible community that has held us up, welcomed us in, and supported us exactly how we are.” “So many of you have reminded us, again and again, why loving out loud matters,” they said, …

‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’

‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as far west as San Antonio and as far east as Port Arthur. Flights were grounded, cars crashed, and all traffic halted in the Houston Ship Channel, […] Source link

Catholic sisters sue for exemption to LGBTQ+ rights law in NY nursing homes

Catholic sisters sue for exemption to LGBTQ+ rights law in NY nursing homes

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — A community of Catholic sisters who provide skilled nursing care for poor, terminally ill cancer patients is suing New York state health leaders in federal court, seeking a religious exemption from the state’s law protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ long-term care facility residents. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne argued in the lawsuit, filed Monday (April 6) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, that they and their lay employees could face fines, potential loss of licensing and jail time if they don’t comply with a law mandating that they care for transgender patients according to their gender identities. The New York law also mandates that health care workers refrain from restricting patients from consensual sexual relationships and complete cultural competency training for caring for “patients with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities or expressions,” which the sisters argue go against their religious values. Since 1901, right after Sister Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of “The Scarlet Letter” novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, founded the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, the order …

I Haven’t Looked At My Aging Face The Same Since Seeing Something I Couldn’t Unsee | Sue Johnson

I Haven’t Looked At My Aging Face The Same Since Seeing Something I Couldn’t Unsee | Sue Johnson

Published by Jenni Sidey

At the end of the summer, sitting in my favorite coffee shop in Toronto’s trendy Yorkville, I suddenly found myself mesmerized by the faces of the women in front of me. They were so perfect. Not one flaw, bump, wrinkle. Their makeup was also perfect. Their eyelashes are long enough to sweep the floor with, their lips botoxed out into space. I found myself wondering, how many hours a day does it take to look like that?  I haven’t looked at my aging face the same since seeing something I couldn’t see: how alike everyone looks now Frank Flores / Unsplash+ But I suddenly felt sad. I remembered some of the words from my own book — about how Botox freezes our faces so that we cannot communicate properly with others through our facial expressions or even pick up the emotional cues outlined in others’ faces by imitating their message and feeling it in our bodies. And it is not just theory. Research on facial expression and emotional attunement shows that when we reduce our …

CFTC and DOJ sue states over prediction markets regulation dispute

CFTC and DOJ sue states over prediction markets regulation dispute

Published by skeptic

Federal regulators have taken Arizona, Illinois, and Connecticut to court, opening a new front in the fight over so-called event contracts and who gets to regulate them. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, joined by the United States, filed lawsuits in federal district courts seeking to stop those states from enforcing laws that would block these products. Federal officials argue event contracts fall under their authority when they trade on registered exchanges. State regulators see something else entirely, calling them unlicensed gambling.  The cases seen by ReadWrite stem in part from recent enforcement moves. In Illinois, regulators sent cease-and-desist letters to firms including Kalshi and Robinhood, arguing their sports-related event contracts amount to unlawful wagering without proper state licenses. Connecticut officials made similar claims, saying companies were “conducting unlicensed online gambling” by offering these contracts to residents. The @CFTC has clear and longstanding exclusive jurisdiction to regulate prediction markets. But recently, state regulators have tried to impose inconsistent and contrary obligations on CFTC-registered prediction markets. In response, the CFTC and @TheJusticeDept today filed three… — Mike …

High court makes it harder to sue internet providers for online piracy

High court makes it harder to sue internet providers for online piracy

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it harder for music and movie makers to sue for online piracy, ruling that internet providers are usually not liable for copyright infringement even if they know their users are downloading copyrighted works. In a 9-0 decision, the justices threw out Sony’s lawsuit and a $1-billion jury verdict against Cox Communications for copyright infringement. Lower courts upheld the lawsuit against Cox’s internet service for contributing to music piracy, which the company did little to stop. Sony’s lawyers pointed to hundreds of thousands of instances of Cox customers sharing copyrighted works. Put on notice, Cox did little to stop it, they said. But the high court said that is not enough to establish liability for copyright infringement, which remains a hot button issue in the music and film industries with the advent of AI tools that have spread the misuse of copyrighted content and sparked lawsuits between studios and AI companies. “Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the …

Environmental groups and states sue EPA over Trump’s emissions rollback

Environmental groups and states sue EPA over Trump’s emissions rollback

Published by Sam Flores

Last year, 7 million people around the world, 600,00 of them children, died from a slow-moving, silent and largely invisible killer: air pollution. In the U.S. alone, that number was 135,000 people, roughly the population of Dayton, Ohio. Poor air quality also accrues an economic cost of about $800 billion each year. And of course pollutants get trapped in the atmosphere, causing global heating and climate change that threatens to upend all life on the planet. Critics are now warning that deregulation at the federal level threatens to make this issue even worse. One of President Donald Trump’s very first acts in his second term was to repeal long-established environmental protections aimed at protecting public health and mitigating climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to roll back the “endangerment finding,” which allowed the organization to regulate motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions has drawn outrage from a panoply of parties. On March 19, 24 Democratic-majority states, plus D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and 12 cities and counties filed a lawsuit against the EPA, joining nearly …

Preservation Societies Sue Trump Administration Over Kennedy Center Plans

Preservation Societies Sue Trump Administration Over Kennedy Center Plans

Published by José Betancourt

A group of eight preservation societies filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s plans for a two-year renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Last week, the Kennedy Center’s board approved to close the institution for two years, beginning after its July 4 celebrations for the US’s 250th anniversary, so that it could undergo renovations. The extent of the planned renovations remains unclear. President Donald Trump said in February the Kennedy Center is “tired, broken, and dilapidated.” Related Articles In their suit, which was first reported on by the Washington Post, the plaintiffs describe the Kennedy Center as “a defining landmark within the monumental core of the Nation’s capital” and that it’s modernist design and role as a venue for the performing arts “form an irreplaceable legacy of history, architecture, and civic purpose.” Now, “[t]hat legacy is in peril,” the suit adds, citing Trump’s plan to close the Kennedy Center within four months “undergo major structural work—up to and including demolition and reconstruction.” The suit asks the court to intervene in …