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YouTube Sidesteps Latest Social Media Trial With Payout; Meta, TikTok Owners & Snap Still Face Court
Over a month before a second potentially seminal social media trial is set to start in California, YouTube has reached a deal to get out of having to show up in court.
“YouTube's decision to resolve this case before having to face a jury speaks for itself,” attorneys for 15-year-old R.K.C. said…
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No Joke! Facing 11 Years For Tax Evasion, Carlos Mencia Enters Not Guilty Plea; Comic Posts Bail As Defense Lashes Out At D.A. “Overreach”
Carlos Mencia entered a not guilty plea today to tax evasion charges that could land the comic behind bars for over 11 years if a jury finds the Mind of Mencia frontman guilty of the felonies.
Scheduled to be back in Lo Angeles Superior Court on August 14, the incarcerated Mencia also saw his…
Looming ParaBros Merger Action By State AGs Boosted By L.A. County Report On Likely Big Job Losses And Lawsuits
With worrying numbers about potential L.A. job losses and other economic impacts resulting from a Paramount-Warner Bos Discovery merger, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has just put its thumb on the scale of a possible state attorneys general’s legal action against David Ellison’s pending…
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Death Of Late Night: Jay Leno On What Went Wrong At 11:30, Why Joe Rogan Is The New Johnny Carson & How John Oliver Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
EXCLUSIVE: A lot has changed in late-night, in the media and in America in the 12 years since Jay Leno stopped being the host of The Tonight Show.
For one thing, there is a new king of late-night, but he isn’t on TV.
“I mean, podcasts really are the new talk show. Joe Rogan is the new…
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‘Matlock’ Showrunner Accused Of Juneteenth Insult, Racial & Sexual Harassment By Ex-Writer On Kathy Bates CBS Series
CBS’ Matlock is going to court for real with a lawsuit from a former writer on the Kathy Bates-led series who claims he was axed after raising concerns about alleged racist and sexual comments made by showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman.
In a complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court…
Diddy Gets Months Off His Prison Time, Again; Bad Boys Records Founder Initially Got Four Years For 2025 Prostitution Conviction
Sean Combs failed in his frantic efforts to secure a Get Out of Jail Free pardon from Donald Trump, but Diddy now will be exiting his cushy low-security prison in New Jersey a little earlier than expected anyhow.
Sentenced to 50 months behind bars after a New York jury acquitted the Bad Boys…
Paramount Politics: In Tough Year For Incumbents, $111B WBD Merger Has State AGs Concerned With More Than Antitrust After Feds Approve Deal
EXCLUSIVE: In a tough and rough election year for incumbents, Paramount's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has become a political football in California and across the nation.
Just a few feet from Donald Trump, a smiling David Ellison was front and center last night for the…
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Joe Biden & Jay Leno Put Pedal To The L.A. Metal, Talk Trump On ‘Garage’s POTUS Corvette Episode
EXCLUSIVE: Even with Dr Jill Biden’s recent best-selling memoir and Hunter Biden becoming the unvarnished sage of social media, it’s not quite a Bidenaissance until the former President of the United States himself gets out on the highway. That is in fact exactly what Joe Biden and his 1967 Corvette…
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Justice Department Explains Why It Cleared Paramount-Warner Bros Deal: “Not Likely To Result In Harm To Competition Or American Consumers”
The Justice Department said Friday that it concluded that Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery was “not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers,” citing its review of the streaming, linear television and theatrical release marketplaces.
In a statement…
DOJ Gives Thumbs Up To Paramount’s $111B WBD Acquisition; Par Touts “Pro-Competitive” Merger As States Ponder Next Move
UPDATED with Paramount & CA AG statements: The Department of Justice has approved Paramount’s pending $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros Discovery.
The signoff Friday by the Paramount-friendly Trump administration was confirmed to Deadline by multiple sources. No significant concessions by…
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Rumble On The South Lawn Is On! Judge Pile-Drives Suit To Stop UFC Card At White House
Despite the “musings” of Donald Trump, he still going to get his 80th birthday present from UFC boss Dana White this weekend.
A federal judge on Friday slapped down the last-minute move by a lawsuit backed by the Public Integrity Project to choke out Sunday’s scheduled fights from the White…
Blake Gets Baldoni’s Bucks For Lawyers But Not Damages – Yet
Blake Lively will be getting some money from Justin Baldoni out of what happened during the making of It Ends With Us and the reputational fallout that ensued in the summer of 2024.
“Lively is entitled to fees and costs,” Judge Lewis Liman wrote Friday in deeply reasoned 47-page order over…
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