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OpenAI and Microsoft Sued for Mass Copyright Infringement by News Publisher Coalition
A large group of nationwide print and digital publishers has banded together to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for mass copyright infringement. The publishing coalition, comprising nearly 400 news publishers spanning local and regional outlets, alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and reviewed by…
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How to Help Victims of the Venezuela Earthquakes
Rescue workers evacuate an injured person from a collapsed building following an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 24, 2026. —Manaure Quintero/AFP—Getty Images Relief efforts are underway after Venezuela was struck by two successive earthquakes on Wednesday evening. At least 920 people have died, with 3,360 injured, said Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the country’s…
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A ‘pride match’ between Iran and Egypt — and Washington state’s gay leaders couldn’t be happier about it
SEATTLE — On Thursday, the Washington state House speaker and its Senate president — likely the country’s first-ever pairing of openly gay state capital legislative leaders — met to strategize with progressive campaigners against a pair of conservative-backed ballot initiatives that would impose new rules on transgender children in schools and sports. To defeat the…
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Overgrown lots in Altadena, Palisades pose fire risk. L.A. County is pushing to clear them
As the Eaton and Palisades fires roared across the Altadena area and the coastal Santa Monica Mountains in January 2025, the flames were fueled in part by accumulations of bone-dry chaparral, brush and other vegetation. The fires eviscerated many of the plants and trees in and around the burn zones, leaving behind barren lots and…
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Legal analyst shocked by racist joke from Katie Miller
Katie Miller, wife of President Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller, drew criticism on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” for a social media post celebrating a Supreme Court ruling on immigration policy. On Friday, the panel was discussing Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion, which found nothing racist in Trump’s comments about Somali and Haitian immigrants, prompting a…
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Gavin Newsom’s billionaire tax two-step: squeeze the rich nationally, spare California’s donor class
Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to sell America on a national billionaire tax as he cultivates a likely White House run in 2028 — but his critics say California’s sky-high tax record has already sent many residents fleeing and Newsom is scrambling to protect his gilded Golden State donor class. The governor’s new proposal “reveals…
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Bettina Anderson shares never-before-seen photos from private Bahamas wedding to Donald Trump Jr.
Newlywed Bettina Anderson shared a new peek at her lavish Bahamas wedding to Donald Trump Jr. The former model shared an Instagram post Wednesday with never-before-seen photos from the couple’s party they threw on day two of their wedding weekend last month. In the first photo, Anderson, 39, and Don Jr., 48, embraced and stared into…
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A call about illegal dumping in Palmdale leads to an 800-pound meth bust
Code enforcement officers in the city of Palmdale made an extraordinary discovery this week while responding to an illegal dumping complaint at a vacant lot — a narcotics lab and more than 800 pounds of methamphetamine inside a cargo container. The drug bust prompted multiple law enforcement agencies to descend on the vacant lot in…
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Trump caught red-handed using tax dollars for renovations he claimed he paid for: report
Back in March, President Donald Trump claimed that an expensive renovation to a White House pathway was paid for by himself personally, but on Friday, The Atlantic’s Michael Scherer revealed that the bill was actually footed by taxpayers. The pathway in question connects the Oval Office to the White House’s central complex, a commute that…
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Cleanup of rotting meat, scorched debris begins at Boyle Heights cold-storage warehouse
Idling trucks, sandbag piles, and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning. The smells that have wafted through the neighborhood since June 17 — fire…