‘Not a done deal’: California vows ‘vigorous’ review of Paramount-Warner Bros takeover Attorney general says $111bn deal will be investigated amid concerns over monopoly power and job losses The Guardian - US · Feb 27
Netflix quits Warner Bros takeover battle; FTSE 100 ends week at record high – as it happened Netflix shares have jumped 10% after it left Larry Ellison’s Paramount clear to buy Warner Bros, regulators permitting…. The Guardian - UK · Feb 27
Federal judge in Texas allows lawsuit against California attorney general over ExxonMobil remarks A federal judge in Texas has ruled that California’s attorney general can face a defamation lawsuit over comments attacking ExxonMobil’s plastics recycling claims The Independent UK · Feb 25
California’s ‘blackjack ban’ in card houses could jeopardize ‘thousands of working families’ and cost millions, experts warn The new regulations go into effect in April The Independent UK · Feb 18
California announces investigation into delayed evacuation orders during LA-area wildfire California’s top prosecutor is opening a civil rights investigation into how delayed evacuations impacted a historically Black community ravaged by one of the January 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires The Independent UK · Feb 12
California to launch civil rights inquiry over delayed response to wildfire in Altadena Investigation will assess whether LA county fire department discriminated while responding to 2025 fires The Guardian - US · Feb 12
Federal judge blocks California from enforcing ICE mask ban Judge rules that law discriminates against federal government because it does not apply to state authorities The Guardian - US · Feb 10
Trump’s administration points out California’s ‘culture of fraud and abuse,’ but ends up incriminating itself SBA claims that California has created a culture that enables fraud. We Got This Covered · Feb 9
Lawsuits Push Back on Trump’s Attack on Child Care Unions, small businesses, states sue to stop the administration from punishing blue states by withholding $10 billion in funding. Capital & Main · Feb 5
Paris prosecutors raided X offices and summoned Musk as global crackdown on Grok intensifies UK regulators also opened formal investigations. Axios · Feb 3
California AG sues Trump administration’s ‘unlawful power grab’ to restart pipelines that caused an oil spill in 2015 Trump seems to be placing all his bets on oil We Got This Covered · Jan 27
California sues the Trump administration over plans to restart oil pipelines along the coast California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Trump administration for approving an oil company's plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state's coast The Independent UK · Jan 23
Grok flooded X with over 3 million sexualized images in just 11 days, analysis finds The deluge of photorealistic images included almost two million depicting women and almost 25,000 that contained children, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate The Independent UK · Jan 22
Sling TV to Pay £415,000 After Claims It Misled Users on Data Privacy Sling TV pays $530,000 settlement as California AG Alleges the streaming service made it difficult for users to opt out of data selling and sharing. International Business Times UK · Jan 20
The Independent UK · Jan 15 Elon Musk’s X bans Grok AI tool from creating images of real people undressed X announced the policy update the same day the state of California launched probe into allegations of nonconsensual AI-generated explicit images on the platform
The Guardian - US · Jan 14 California attorney general investigates Musk’s Grok AI over lewd fake images AI tool made by Elon Musk’s xAI makes it easy to harass women with deepfake images, says state’s top attorney
Reason · Jan 5 California's Ban on Openly Carrying Guns Is Unconstitutional, 9th Circuit Says The ruling, which emphasizes the lack of historical support for such a law, is unlikely to survive en banc review.
The Independent UK · Jan 1 Trump says he’s dropping his push for the National Guard to patrol Chicago, LA and Portland The administration has been hit with multiple legal challenges over the presence of the guardsmen
The Texas Tribune · Dec 31, 2025 Trump says he’s dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now Texas Gov. Greg Abbott previously sent the state's National Guard to Chicago.
The Guardian - US · Dec 31, 2025 Court allows White House to end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states Appeals court reversed injunction blocking Trump administration’s defunding of reproductive healthcare giant
International Business Times UK · Dec 31, 2025 US Judge Allows ICE Access to Medicaid Records, Democrats 'Disappointed' With the Ruling A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration can share Medicaid data with ICE, sparking fierce opposition from Democrats concerned over immigrant privacy and healthcare access.
InsideEVs · Dec 17, 2025 Ford’s EV Reset Leaves A Multibillion-Dollar Hole In The Battery Industry Plus, 16 states sue the Trump administration for freezing EV charging funds and Scout Motors gets license to sell directly to customers.
International Business Times UK · Dec 14, 2025 ChatGPT Can Drive Vulnerable People Into Psychiatric Ward, Doctors Warn AI chatbots are banned in California from posing as doctors, but experts warn of dangerous loopholes.
The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025 Trump administration sues California over law banning masked federal agents The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit over California’s new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to have identification while conducting operations in the state
The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2025 Who is Zico Kolter? A professor leads OpenAI safety panel with power to halt unsafe AI releases Zico Kolter leads a panel that can stop OpenAI from releasing new AI systems if they're deemed unsafe