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Muslim women are suing jails and police over hijab removal at booking. And winning.

Muslim women are suing jails and police over hijab removal at booking. And winning.

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — More Muslim women across the United States are turning to the courts to challenge prison and police policies that force them to remove their hijabs for booking photos, arguing the practice violates their religious freedom and leaves them exposed to lasting harm. In the last two months, at least five such cases have been filed or settled. Attorneys say the lawsuits do not reflect a new problem so much as a new willingness to fight. A growing track record of successful cases from Minnesota to New York City has emboldened Muslim women to come forward about their experiences.  “A lot of Muslim women realized, ‘Oh, this is something I can complain about. I felt like it violated my rights. I knew it felt wrong, but I didn’t know that I could actually try to get these pictures destroyed,’” said Aya Beydoun, a staff attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who has litigated several of these cases in recent years. And arrests at pro-Palestine protests have also brought more visibly Muslim women into …

Female Looksmaxxer Alorah Ziva Is Suing Clavicular for Alleged Battery

Female Looksmaxxer Alorah Ziva Is Suing Clavicular for Alleged Battery

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An 18-year-old woman who promotes herself as the “#1 female looksmaxxer” is suing the highly controversial streamer Braden Eric Peters, aka Clavicular, for fraud, battery, and alleged sexual assault. In the suit, which was filed in Miami-Dade County court and obtained by WIRED, Aleksandra Mendoza, who goes by the name @zahloria, or Alorah Ziva, on Instagram, alleges that she first encountered Peters in May 2025, when she was just 16 years old. According to the complaint, Peters promised Mendoza he could make her “the female face of looksmaxxing,” the online trend of using surgery or drugs to enhance one’s facial features. Eager to grow her social media following, Mendoza agreed to make four looksmaxxing videos for Peters in exchange for a $1,000 payment, court documents say. The two allegedly began a text-based relationship, with Peters offering to pay for an Uber ride for Mendoza to visit him and his family in Cape Cod. Upon her arrival, Mendoza alleges, Peters plied her with alcohol and “had sex with Mendoza while she was knowingly intoxicated, to the …

Mormons will regret suing an ex-member

Mormons will regret suing an ex-member

Published by Sam Flores

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can’t seem to leave John Dehlin alone. Church leadership excommunicated this former graduate of Brigham Young University in 2015, charging him with apostasy for allegedly claiming the Book of Mormon is “fraudulent” and a work “of fiction.” Dehlin believes his support of same-sex marriage and women’s equality in the church was also a major factor in the decision, a position the church disputes. In 2017, a major leak of internal church documents showed that LDS leadership shared a PowerPoint presentation accusing multiple people and organizations of “leading people away from the gospel.” Dehlin, who also has a doctorate in psychology from Utah State University, was on the list.   Now the LDS church is suing Dehlin and his popular “Mormon Stories” podcast using a surprising legal argument: that the show, which he launched during the early days of podcasting in 2005 and is openly critical of the church, is violating the church’s trademark rights. The podcast’s name and marketing materials, the plaintiffs argue, will “cause individuals to be …

Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview Edited, Despite Suing CBS Over Deceptive Editing

Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview Edited, Despite Suing CBS Over Deceptive Editing

Published by Daniella Wilson

It seems Donald Trump is OK with his 60 Minutes interview getting edited, just not anyone else’s. The president sat down with Norah O’Donnell for an interview that aired Sunday night on 60 Minutes, one day after shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. During their conversation, he shared his perspective on what went down, but also got defensive when O’Donnell read from the gunman’s — 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen — alleged manifesto about his motivations. The interview comes rougly a year and a half after Trump sued CBS in October 2024 over a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. At the time, he accused the network of deceptive editing to influence the election. Though the president refused a 60 Minutes interview during his campaign, he criticized CBS for airing two different answers from Harris to a question that ran in separate clips on 60 Minutes and Face the Nation earlier in the day. In response, CBS said different portions of her answer to the same question were aired to be more succinct. …

Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest

Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you were arrested after an AI facial recognition camera wrongly flagged you as a trespasser, how far would you go to get justice? Jason Killinger is looking to go all the way. The Nevada man recently filed a lawsuit against the city of Reno, after a police officer named Richard Jager placed him under arrest for 12 hours on the guidance of an AI surveillance system. The filing naming the city of Reno is the latest escalation in Killinger’s months-long quest for retribution, coming after federal Judge Miranda Du agreed the city could be named in his suit, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. A lawsuit against Jager is already ongoing, which will now include Reno among its defendants. While placing some bets at an area casino, Killinger was previously flagged as a “100 percent match” for another man who had been banned from the gaming floor at an earlier date. After being detained by casino security, Killinger …

Georgia bans many midwives from practicing. Several are suing the state.

Georgia bans many midwives from practicing. Several are suing the state.

Published by Sam Flores

Twice a month, Sarah Stokely travels 4½ hours from her home in Rome, Georgia, to work for a week at a birth center in Blountville, Tennessee. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Stokely is a certified nurse-midwife — the title for registered nurses who specialize in midwifery. But Georgia laws make it difficult for her to practice there. The state requires all nurse-midwives to have formal, written agreements with physicians that describe when physicians must intervene in evaluating or treating patients. Stokely said the agreement, which often requires midwives to pay physicians for their time and liability insurance, was too expensive. She was quoted around $500 per month, she said. Midwives who don’t have nursing degrees, meanwhile, aren’t allowed to practice in Georgia at all. The laws make Georgia one of the country’s most restrictive states for midwives. Stokely and two other midwives sued the state Thursday, alleging that Georgia’s policies violate the state constitution and don’t ensure patients’ safety. Sarah Stokely.Starbuck Photography In the suit, …

Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Danish publishers take OpenAI to court

Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Danish publishers take OpenAI to court

Published by Sam Flores

A lawsuit has been launched against OpenAI in Denmark on behalf of news publishers whose work was believed to have been used to train ChatGPT. The Chicago Tribune and New York Times sued Perplexity at the end of 2025, while multiple publishers have signed AI licensing deals with Meta. Meanwhile Getty Images failed to secure an AI copyright precedent in the UK after suing Stability AI. And The Hollywood Reporter and Variety publisher Penske Media has become the first news publisher to sue Google over the impact of its AI Overviews in search results on traffic and revenue. A small number of news publishers have followed in the footsteps of The New York Times to sue OpenAI and other AI companies over the unauthorised use of their content – now including nine more US regionals owned by Alden Global Capital subsidiary Media News Group, as well as US News & World Report. However many more now have signed deals with the AI companies which commonly include the use of their content as reference points for …

A US state is suing TP-Link over router security — here’s what you should do

A US state is suing TP-Link over router security — here’s what you should do

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Summary Texas sues TP-Link over “Made in Vietnam” labels and alleged China-linked security threats. TP-Link has come under fire several times in recent years for security practices and ties to Chinese hacking groups. If you have a TP-Link router, your best bet is probably to switch brands, but there are some other options. The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against TP-Link Systems, Inc., the US arm of TP-Link. The lawsuit alleges deceptive trade practices and national security risks. The core complaints are that the company’s “Made in Vietnam” stickers mislead consumers about the company’s ties to China and that the company has been used by state-sponsored Chinese hacking groups to launch cyber attacks against the United States. This isn’t the first time TP-Link has drawn scrutiny There have been concerns about TP-Link going back to 2023. For those who aren’t familiar, here’s a brief history of the TP-Link controversy: Starting in about 2019, TP-Link’s popularity began to grow rapidly, taking a significant portion of the router market share in the US. In 2023, …

Trump Is Suing His Own Government

Trump Is Suing His Own Government

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Americans don’t always know where their tax dollars are going, nor do they always agree with how they’re used. President Trump has an unorthodox proposal for where 10 billion of them should go: directly to him. On January 29, Trump, along with the Trump Organization and his sons Don Jr. and Eric, sued the IRS for mishandling his tax information. The group is claiming improper disclosure—that a contractor leaked the president’s and his sons’ tax returns to The New York Times and ProPublica during Trump’s first term. (As part of his 2023 guilty plea for disclosing tax-return information without authorization, the contractor admitted to leaking Trump’s information to the Times.) The president is seeking $10 billion in damages; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed last week that all of it would come from the Treasury General Account, which consists entirely …

Neil Young gives Greenland free access to his music catalog after suing Trump for using it

Neil Young gives Greenland free access to his music catalog after suing Trump for using it

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Neil Young has gifted his entire digital archive to the people of Greenland as a symbolic gesture of solidarity amid Donald Trump’s threats to annex the Danish territory. The legendary musician, 80, announced the move, which he called “peace and love in a musical form”, on his website Tuesday. “I’m honored to give a free year’s access to neilyoungarchives.com to all our friends in Greenland,” Young wrote. “I hope my Music and Music Films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government.” He concluded: “It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality. This is an offer of peace and love. All the music I made during the last 62 years is yours to hear. We …