Tag: claims
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Ukraine claims Russia launched intercontinental ballistic missile at it for the first time
Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile as part of an overnight attack, in what would be the first use of such a weapon during the conflict. The claim was disputed by a Western official, who said it was a ballistic missile but not an ICBM that was fired. The Kremlin…
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Trump and allies spread false noncitizen voting claims and World Series preview: Morning Rundown
Donald Trump and his allies are spreading a new “big lie” ahead of Election Day. A World Series matchup for the ages is set to begin. And a new report warns that online gambling poses a public health threat. Here’s what to know today. How Trump is using a new ‘big lie’ to undermine the…
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How Trump is weaponizing disinformation about noncitizens voting to fuel rigged election claims
Beyond Trump, there are few election deniers more zealous than Cleta Mitchell, a once-liberal Democratic Oklahoma legislator who has constructed a vast conservative apparatus promoting the noncitizen voting lie. Mitchell converted to the right in the ’90s, and represented tea party politicians in campaign finance cases in the aughts. She co-founded the Public Interest Legal…
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French bulldog dies on Alaska Airlines flight after being moved from first class to coach, lawsuit claims
A San Francisco man has sued Alaska Airlines alleging negligence led to the death of his beloved 3-year-old French bulldog after he was asked to move from first-class to coach on a flight from New York to San Francisco. Michael Contillo claimed he specifically purchased a first-class ticket to give his pup, Ash, more space…
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UCLA rocked by competing claims of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bias
LOS ANGELES — Dueling lawsuits against UCLA each describe a rise in antisemitic and anti-Palestinian bias since protests erupted on campus last year over the Israel-Hamas war. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California says UCLA and the University of California Board of Regents, which oversees the UC system,…
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Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen’s suicide
A Florida mom is suing Character.ai, accusing the artificial intelligence company’s chatbots of initiating “abusive and sexual interactions” with her teenage son and encouraging him to take his own life. Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, began using Character.AI in April last year, according to the lawsuit, which says that after his final conversation with…
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Archdiocese of L.A. reaches $880M child sex abuse settlement over hundreds of claims
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached a historic $880 million settlement over hundreds child sex abuse claims. The agreement in principle announced Wednesday settles 1,354 child sexual abuse claims, the plaintiffs’ attorney said in a news release. It is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese. The lawsuits were filed…
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Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 case rejects ‘strained’ argument about his false 2020 election claims
WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump rejected the former president’s claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud he continuously repeated in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack. There…
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Arizona lawyers keep distance from GOP’s ‘election integrity’ operation amid concern over Kari Lake’s fraud claims
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Multiple Republican lawyers in Arizona say they and others who were involved in the party’s election litigation efforts in past cycles are keeping their distance this time around, in large part due to Senate candidate Kari Lake’s history of spurious fraud claims. Earlier this month, Kory Langhofer resigned his position as…
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Trump claims Democrats are more dangerous than U.S. foreign adversaries
Former President Donald Trump called Democrats and others who have opposed or investigated him “the enemy from within” in an interview that aired Sunday, describing them as more dangerous than major foreign adversaries of the United States, including Russia and China. Trump specifically singled out those whom he called “lunatics that we have inside, like…