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Gibson's Bakery. Dake Kang/AP An Ohio court ruled in favor of Gibson's Bakery in 2019 in a defamation lawsuit filed against Oberlin College. The Gibson family alleged they were defamed by the college following a 2016 shoplifting incident. After two failed appeals, the college will pay the family-owned bakery nearly $ 37 million. After five […]
RELATED STORIES It was not DC’s Stargirl in and of itself but series boss Geoff Johns that sold film vet/onetime Roadies manager Luke Wilson on the superhero series. Speaking with TVLine in the Q&A below, Wilson shares how a terrific first meeting with Johns (who based the Courtney Whitmore comic book character on his late […]
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Share this article Why do explorers still take risks to reach the Poles, even when most ‘firsts’ have been claimed and records broken? Avid Pole-seeker and featured contributor Leon McCarron explains. When I was 10, I wanted to go to the South Pole. When I was 15, I decided that I’d like to go to […]
Net neutrality just secured a court victory… unfortunately, it won’t make much of a difference in the near future. The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a 2016 DC court ruling that upheld the FCC’s Obama-era net neutrality rules, leaving the earlier decision intact. The brief notice didn’t explain why the […]
Months after merging with Bayer in a bid to bury a brand that has become as toxic as its products, Monsanto has lost its appeal in a historic lawsuit that found its Roundup herbicide responsible for a man’s cancer. In August, a San Francisco jury awarded former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $ 289 million in […]
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentences, and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression. Punishment for the two journalists sparked worldwide criticism. They had been reporting on Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims when they were […]
Waiting outside the Spanish Parliament this week for the new Socialist prime minister to arrive, software engineer María López described herself as a bit of a Pedro Sánchez “groupie.” “I know it is not very cool of me, but I want to see him in the flesh,” the 36-year-old said. “He has done more for […]
In a potentially precedent-setting decision, an Ontario court has rejected a Toronto area family’s plea to keep their 27-year-old daughter, who has been declared brain dead, on life-support.
The nomination-round voting period for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards closes on Monday at 10 pm/PT, and I have a hunch there will be a lot of 11th hour ballot activity going on over the weekend. To all you procrastinating Academy members, I urge you — no, I beg you — to keep top of […]
