Tag: Crime

Disney drops bid to have allergy-death lawsuit tossed because plaintiff signed up for Disney+

NEW YORK -- Disney is no longer asking a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the victim’s...

Tech tycoon, defense attorney, and Morgan Stanley banker among those missing in freak yacht sinking

LONDON -- A superyacht that sank Monday off the Sicilian coast during a storm left six passengers missing, including British tech kingpin Mike...

Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement

A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated...

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was trying to bounce back from HP fraud case before being lost at sea

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon...

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills that aims to crack down on smash-and-grab...

Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US copyright case

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, lost a 12-year fight this week to halt...