YouTube star Piper Rockelle’s mom settles $22M sex abuse suit
The self-proclaimed “Madam” mother of a teenage YouTube sensation who was accused of abusing more than a dozen of her daughter's young collaborators and failing to compensate them for their work has reportedly reached a settlement with her children. A new report said. Tiffany Smith, the mother of 17-year-old YouTube sensation Piper Lockell, filed a […]
Newsmax settles with Smartmatic days ahead of trial
Newsmax has settled a lawsuit brought by voting system provider Smartmatic related to the channel's airing of false claims about its software after the 2020 election, the network announced Thursday. “Newsmax is pleased to announce that we have resolved the lawsuit brought by Smartmatic in a confidential settlement,” a Newsmax spokesperson told The Hill. The […]
DNA Service 23andMe Settles $30 Million Lawsuit over Massive Data Breach
Genetic testing company 23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 6.9 million customers. The Verge Reports Popular genetic testing company 23andMe has reached a settlement agreement to resolve a class-action lawsuit brought by customers affected by a […]
Army vet learns daughter got attacked, but she’s at college 1,000 miles away. So he’s on a plane that day and settles things.
Bill Steinkirchner and his wife, Melanie, got the kind of call no parent ever wants to receive from their college-aged daughter on Sunday morning. Melanie Steinkirchner writes: Facebook The woman said her daughter was walking to breakfast when a man attacked her, punched her, said he had a gun and threatened to kill her. The […]
Walz administration settles left-wing group’s trans inmate lawsuit, costing Minnesota taxpayers nearly $500K
A new watchdog report concludes that Gov. Tim Walz's administration paid out roughly $500,000 in taxpayer money in what was essentially a “sue and settle” scheme by left-wing interest groups representing transgender prisoners. According to public records viewed by taxpayer watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com and first published by the New York Post, Walz's office allocated nearly […]
NYC funeral home chain that exploited consumers settles for $700K
A New York funeral home chain will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for allegedly cheating and deceiving customers, according to a settlement with the city. Bronx-based RG Ortiz Funeral Home will pay $600,000 in compensation to the family and a $100,000 civil penalty for failing to tell the family where the body […]
Billy Ray Cyrus Settles Messy Divorce 3 Months After Filing To End His Marriage
Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose have very publicly finalized their divorce, three months after the famous singer filed for divorce. Cyrus filed for divorce from Firerose (whose real name is Joanna Hodges) in May, just seven months after they were married. Cyrus cited irreconcilable differences and inappropriate marital relations as the reasons for the divorce, […]
Tommy Fleetwood collects ultimate hardware, settles for silver medal at 2024 Olympics
Tommy Fleetwood can officially call himself an Olympic medallist. The Briton won silver in the men’s golf event at the 2024 Olympic Games at Le Golf National on Sunday. Fleetwood becomes just the second British player to win gold after Justin Rose won at the Rio 2016 Games. He held the lead for much of […]
Sha’Carri Richardson settles for Olympic silver in 100-meter downer
Sha’Carey Richardson, the star American runner who won a silver medal in the 100 meters at the 2024 Paris Olympics, was wrapped in the Stars and Stripes on the rain-soaked track at the Stade de France on Saturday, but there was still a smile on her face. It wasn’t the gold medal, won by St. […]
Meta settles with Texas for $1.4 billion for unauthorized capture of biometric data in record settlement
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Announced On Tuesday, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced it had agreed to a record settlement over the unauthorized harvesting of biometric data. “I am proud that our vigorously pursued justice for Americans whose privacy rights were violated by the use of Meta’s facial recognition software, resulting in the largest […]