Fourteen months after St. Luke’s hospital filed a defamation lawsuit against Ammon Bundy and another far-right activist — neither of whom ever came to court — the case has reached a conclusion. The 12 jurors deciding damages in the civil action filed back into the courtroom early Monday evening to announce what Bundy, close associate Diego Rodriguez and their various entities would be ordered to pay the health system and other plaintiffs. The verdict: a total of $26.5 million in compensatory damages and $26 million in punitive damages. The $500,000 extra in the compensatory category came as a result of the jury’s finding that violations of the Idaho Charitable Solicitation Act by Rodriguez and his Freedom Man Press business had harmed the plaintiffs. Bundy and Rodriguez led protests at the St. Luke’s hospitals in Meridian and downtown Boise in March 2022 over a child welfare case involving Rodriguez’s 10-month-old grandchild. The lawsuit named as defendants both men, Bundy’s People’s Rights Network, Bundy’s campaign for governor, and Rodriguez’s Freedom Man website and political action committee. The suit said the defendants then posted multiple lies online about the hospital system, its employees and the reasons the baby was taken into custody. Over the past two weeks, St. Luke’s laid out in court via witness testimony and displays the volume of material that had been circulated by the defendants.

Survivors hope a new inquiry will give a definitive explanation of why the ship went down in 1994.

The 2018 war game envisioned a “Zbellion” by a tech-savvy generation that no longer believed in the American dream.

July 24 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) already have intellectual property rights to the same letter. X is so widely used and cited in trademarks that it is a candidate for legal challenges - and the company formerly known as Twitter could face its own issues defending its X brand in the future. "There's a 100% chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody," said trademark attorney Josh Gerben, who said he counted nearly 900 active U.S. trademark registrations that already cover the letter X in a wide range of industries.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden's new regulation restricting asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border, upending a key tenet of his plan to deter migration after COVID-era Title 42 restrictions ended in May.

Hollywood executives said writers’ and actors’ strike demands like raising wages and protecting actors’ likenesses from AI was “unrealistic.”

A new lawsuit alleges Leonard Leo directed police to arrest man who called him a ‘fucking fascist.’

A Philadelphia woman who was shot in the head by a private security contractor hired to remove her from her home filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Tuesday, challenging the city’s unusual for-profit eviction system. An attorney representing Angel Davis, a former tenant of the Girard Court Apartments who was shot March 29, sued the shooter, the rental company that sought her eviction, and Marisa Shuter, a lawyer who enforced most city evictions as the court-appointed Landlord-Tenant Officer (LTO). Shuter does not have a contract with the city’s Municipal Court, which adjudicates most landlord-tenant disputes. Instead, former President Judge Marsha Neifield Williams appointed her, granting Shuter the right to collect fees from landlords when her team of private deputies evict tenants on their behalf. Those fees, set by the courts, amounted to more than $1 million dollars annually, prior to the pandemic. Davis’s shooting was one of three incidents over the last four months in which a deputized landlord-tenant officer fired a gun during an eviction, spurring protests from housing advocates and scrutiny from lawmakers. Municipal Court President Judge Patrick Dugan ordered Shuter to suspend lockouts last week until Shuter and her officers receive training in use of force and de-escalation.

The price rise hit prisoners seeking bottled water as temperatures eclipse the 100 degree mark in unairconditioned facilities. The state vendor asked to raise the price and two state agencies signed off.

Joy Alonzo, a respected opioid expert, was in a panic. The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during the talk. In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk. “I am in a ton of trouble. Please call me!” she wrote to Chandler Self, the UTMB professor who invited her to speak. Alonzo was right to be afraid. Not only were her supervisors involved, but so was Chancellor John Sharp, a former state comptroller who now holds the highest-ranking position in the Texas A&M University System, which includes 11 public universities and 153,000 students. And Sharp was communicating directly with the lieutenant governor’s office about the incident, promising swift action. Less than two hours after the lecture ended, Patrick’s chief of staff had sent Sharp a link to Alonzo’s professional bio. Shortly after, Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.”

The Mayor and two city council members pushed the city attorney to take formal action this summer to identify several Wikipedia users who were editing the elected officials’ pages.

Twitter may have hit a snag while rolling out its new logo — it seems like Meta already holds the rights to it. Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, announced that the platform will now be called "X," but Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has already registered an "X" logo in connection to "online social networking services" and "social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development."

By combining high-definition maps with sensors that detect changes in the water column, researchers have created a "centimeter-scale" picture of how currents and tides shape the Monterey Canyon.

The Supreme Court’s dark-money operative bought a church near his tony summer home, where neighbors are protesting his political crusade.

Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.

X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, following a tweet from Twitter owner Elon Musk today, and an “interim X logo” will soon replace the Twitter bird logo. Leading up to the change, Musk spent a lot of time tweeting about it. Around 12AM ET last night, he started tweeting — and did so for hours — about the Twitter rebrand to X, the one-letter name he’s used repeatedly in company and product names forever. It started with a tweet saying “soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” followed by a second tweet adding that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.”

Michael Paul Lindsey II, a locomotive conductor and engineer of 17 years, tried to sound the alarm on railroad safety. Not long after, he was fired.

Decades of deregulation have chipped at union power in the freight industry—in order to turn it around, the Teamsters need to show non-unionized workers what a fighting union can do.

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A fatal shooting in New Zealand has revived debate about the country’s gun laws, after two men were killed and 10 others injured in an attack in Auckland. On Friday, police said the men killed were aged in their forties and worked at the construction site where the shooting took place. The gunman was identified as 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, who also worked at the site and died at the scene. Reid entered the construction site on Thursday with a pump-action shotgun, and opened fire as he moved through the 22-floor building. Ten people were injured in the attack, including two police officers.