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Legal
United States government backs OpenAI against New York Times over copyright fair use
The department filed a 20-page statement on September 1 framing the practice as national policy, two months after Attorney-General Michelle Rowland ruled out a text and data mining exception.
News
Holdout juror prompts mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after blocking acquittal
The Massachusetts panel deadlocked 11 to 1 after 38 hours of deliberations, and prosecutors have until a 29 September status conference to decide on a retrial.
Opinion
Nobody wears pink for a father who murders his children
Her own lawyers concede Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children. Four hundred people stood outside her trial in pink. Try to picture that crowd for a father.
Legal
Roberts allows White House ballroom construction to resume
Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a preliminary injunction on 21 August 2026, allowing above-ground construction of a 90,000-square-foot State Ballroom at the White House East Wing to proceed pending further order of the Supreme Court.
Culture
Dolly Parton buried privately as her estate unveils Dollyfest
Dolly Parton was laid to rest in a private ceremony at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, beside her husband Carl Dean, on 31 August 2026. The estate kept the service closed, then released the announcement the public had been waiting for.
News
Jury takes three hours to convict Keffe D of Tupac's murder
A Clark County District Court jury found Duane Keith Davis guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon and intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang on 31 August 2026.
News
Inside the operation that found 163 missing children
Operation Statewide Shield, Florida's first state-led statewide child-recovery initiative, located 163 missing children aged 2 months to 17 over five days. Recoveries spanned six US states, one territory and 12 countries, secure recovery hubs met every child with medical and behavioural care, and th
Legal
Sony and Warner want Claude's maker to pay for the songs it learned from
Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC and Warner Chappell Music filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 28 August 2026, naming Anthropic PBC, chief executive Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants. Case No.
Geopolitics
The US just struck Iran again to stop it mining the world's oil route
"Earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island," Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, the US Central Command spokesperson, said in a statement released on 30 August.