A major media company, Paramount, has decided to pay $16 million to settle a legal dispute with former President Donald Trump. This case was about how CBS edited a "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The money will go to Trump's future presidential library, not to him personally. Paramount did not apologize for anything. Trump's legal team clai...
College sports are on the brink of a significant transformation. The NCAA has cleared the way for schools to pay their athletes directly. This change comes from a legal agreement that was approved in court. It's a big deal because it marks a shift in how college athletes are compensated. The journey to this point has been long. The fight for athlete compens...
Harvard University has decided to hand over old photos of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina. These photos, taken 175 years ago, are believed to be the first of their kind. They show a man named Renty and his daughter Delia, who were enslaved in South Carolina in 1850. The photos are called daguerreotypes, which are like the first version of modern photos...
Maine's fight for transgender rights in sports has resulted in a significant victory. The state won't lose crucial school funding after all. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has backed down from its plan to freeze funds for a child nutrition program. This program feeds around 172, 000 kids in Maine. The dispute began when Maine refused to ban trans girls from ...
A significant legal agreement is on the horizon that could transform college sports. This deal involves a massive payout and new rules for how schools can compensate their athletes. The judge in charge, Claudia Wilken, has not yet given her final approval. She wants more details on a few points before she makes her decision. The NCAA has agreed to pay around $2. 8 bi...
In a major move aimed at addressing past injustices, the U. S. government has agreed to pay nearly $116 million to 103 women who were sexually abused while imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. This prison, once notoriously known as the "rape club, " had a history of widespread staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct. The settlement, app...
Timothy Hutton, an Oscar-winning actor, has finally settled a long-standing legal battle with the producers of the TV show 'Leverage'. The lawsuit began in 2022 when Hutton claimed he was unfairly cut from the show's reboot due to old sexual assault allegations. Despite the case being dismissed by prosecutors, Hutton was never rehired or paid for the reboot season. T...
Marilyn Manson, real name Brian Warner, has settled a lawsuit he filed against Evan Rachel Wood. The lawsuit claimed defamation after Wood accused him of sexual abuse in 2021. As part of the settlement, Manson will pay Wood around $327, 000 in legal fees. Wood's lawyer, Michael J. Kump, said Manson's lawsuit was a failed attempt to revive his career. The lawsuit clai...
In a recent settlement, Pennsylvania's education department waved goodbye to its controversial 'woke' teaching guidelines. These guidelines, part of the 'Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining Education Program Framework', had schools teaching students to question power structures and disrupt harmful practices. A lawsuit from a faith-based legal group, representing paren...
In 2017, Pete Hegseth was in the spotlight for Trump's defense secretary nomination. Soon after, a woman stepped forward with a serious allegation: she claimed Hegseth sexually assaulted her in a hotel room, ignoring her pleas to leave. Hegseth, however, maintained that their encounter was consensual. This accusation could have significantly impacted his potential ap...