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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Alphabet's Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve as a bellwether for numerous similar cases.
Deklin Jake Donnelly is facing a number of charges. (Supplied: Facebook)
President Trump pointed the finger at Joe Biden and JB Pritzker on Wednesday night, blaming their immigration policies for the murder of Chicago-area college student Sheridan Gorman.
Daryl Maguire's conviction for giving false and misleading evidence to ICAC in 2018 has been overturned. (AAP: Dean Lewis)
FKA Twigs has reignited her legal battle with Shia LaBeouf nearly a year after she dropped her 2020 sexual battery lawsuit against the actor.
Queensland police detective at scene of Underwood stabbing on February 24, 2023. (ABC News: Liz Pickering)
A Long Island distillery is taking Saudi-backed LIV Golf to court, alleging that the league’s use of “LIV” for branded apparel and alcoholic beverages is infringing on the spirit maker’s registered trademark.
WASHINGTON — A fourth employee has left the Department of Labor after being sidelined amid a sprawling watchdog probe of Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer involving alleged travel fraud and other misconduct, The Post has learned.
It took nine days of deliberation, 43 hours of argument among jurors, and a seven-week trial that saw the Meta chief executive dragged to the stand in Los Angeles, but the verdict that landed overnight is one Silicon Valley has been dreading for years.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with two federal criminal referrals Wednesday alleging she may have committed homeowners insurance fraud.
SANTA FE, New Mexico — Two landmark jury verdicts against social media companies have arrived at the front of a wave of lawsuits alleging that the popular platforms endanger the mental health of children.
The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google design their platforms to be addictive — but insisted that the “war is not over yet.”
Bill Pulte reportedly urges examination of alleged fraud as New York attorney general’s lawyer attacks ‘vendetta’
LOS ANGELES — Meta and YouTube must pay millions in damages to a 20-year-old woman after a jury decided the social media giant and video streamer designed their platforms to hook young users without concern for their well being.
This week’s court victories against Meta were described as victories for children.
The white-picket fence peace of one of California’s wealthiest and safest enclaves has been shattered by a bizarre and targeted killing — the city’s first homicide in two decades.
On Wednesday, a court in LA County found Meta — the parent company of Facebook — liable in the endangerment of children on its platform.
20-year-old roped into occult community tried to pull out too late, faced tragic ending in 2012 Seoul
The perverted parolee accused of trying to rape a stranger in Central Park allegedly admitted to the crime — as prosecutors on Wednesday revealed sickening new details about the broad-daylight attack.
It wasn’t his best production.
Los Angeles is bracing for a shortage of up to 300 traffic cops for the 2028 Olympics — risking chaos on the streets as hundreds of thousand of visitors descend on the City of Angels for the Summer Games.
A Nevada judge torched a smirking murder suspect for laughing at the devastated family of an 11-year-old boy he’s charged with fatally shooting during a road-rage rampage last year, according to a report.
Hailed as an icon around the Los Angeles Police Department for her tireless volunteer work, this 90-year-old mother also carries a connection to Hollywood royalty.
Meta attorney Kevin Huff makes closing arguments, Monday, March 23, 2026, in state court, in Santa Fe, N.M., in a trial where the social media conglomerate is accused of misleading its users about how safe its platforms are for children. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool)
Residents of one Long Island town are fuming after learning they were being slapped with a sneaky spike on their property tax bills — since the suburb owes millions to a local luxury golf course.
The maniac suspected of gunning down his ex-girlfriend in Harlem after a break-up late last year was arrested Wednesday, cops and sources said.
University of Alabama student Jimmy Gracey died by drowning after he fell into the water near a nightclub in Spain, his autopsy reportedly confirmed.
Large technology companies in the United States have faced mounting criticism in the last decade over child and teen safety. Source: Getty / lixu
Virginia police had to think outside the box when they booked pro cornhole competitor Dayton Webber, a quadruple amputee with no lower arms or legs, on charges of murdering a friend during a late-night joyride.
Four weeks after the United States and Israel launched their combined assault on Iran’s clerical regime, the war has reached a tipping point.
Bill Cosby has been claiming he is too poor to afford the $59 million damages a California court ruled he should pay this week after losing a sex assault lawsuit.
The off-duty Massachusetts cop on trial for allegedly pulling a gun on a fellow officer testified Wednesday how she “lost everything in a 15-second conversation” with the fellow cops who were sent to serve her with a restraining order.
A woman walks outside The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts on Feb. 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
Reversal by London police comes as Shabana Mahmood prepares an appeal against high court overturning ban on the group
The second season of Homicide New York, produced by Dick Wolf and Alfred Street Industries, presents more notorious homicide cases in the Big Apple, with interviews from the NYPD detectives and officers from either the Manhattan North or Manhattan South bureaus that investigated and solved these crimes. Four of the …
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua (12) warms up before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers, Nov. 30, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Rusty Jones, File)
Guatemalan nationals Angelina Lopez Jimenez and Wendy Godinez Lopez, nine, apprehended en route to Miami, report says
A jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services. (AP Video: Eugene Garcia)
The US Supreme Court declined to hear a case on a New York law that pushed local elections to the same year as federal races — but the fight isn’t over.
When James Comer sent a letter to Gavin Newsom calling California’s hospice system a site of rampant fraud — demanding records be submitted to the House Oversight Committee, and giving the governor until April 6 to comply — it landed like a subpoena at a wake.
Costco shoppers are buzzing about a food court staple found in the frozen foods aisle — and some say it might be even better than the original.
Tariq Ramadan, a former Oxford University professor, was sentenced by a Paris court to 18 years in prison for the rape of 3 women
The “extraordinarily low” six-month sentence handed to a trans illegal immigrant who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan sparked outrage Wednesday from a victims’ rights group and left even former prosecutors in shock.
A babyfaced Los Angeles gangster has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for his role in a horrifying killing in the SoCal mountains.
Police have released CCTV footage of the moment two men stormed into a kebab shop in Sydney's west and opened fire, hitting three people and leaving two with long-term injuries.The footage shows two men dressed in black getting out of a dark blue Audi and running inside the kebab shop on South Parade in Auburn on Ju…
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn speaks during a “rosary rally” on Aug. 6, 2023, in Norwood, Ohio. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
An off-duty police superintendent has been charged with murdering an American worker in the Bahamas, according to a report.
The minor accusing Joseph Duggar of grooming and sexual assault reportedly told investigators that the embattled reality star repeatedly “grazed [her] vagina” with his hand during a family vacation in 2020.
Removal of Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez after arrest during green-card appointment decried as ‘flagrant violation’ of legal rights