A Lexington police officer and the top prosecutor misled a grand jury to secure a trumped-up indictment for sex crimes against their client, two defense attorneys allege in a new court filing. Now, they’re asking a judge to throw out the charges. Jerry Wright and Noel Caldwell, attorneys for William Henry Clay, filed a motion […]
The first presidential debate on Thursday was a disastrous night for President Joe Biden. Donald Trump fired off a number of lies and misleading statements about his record. But Biden frequently stumbled with his words, doing little to allay concerns about his age. Former President Donald Trump, 78, may have lied throughout the first presidential […]
Tracie Frazier, a Navy veteran from Florida, enrolled with the University of Arizona Global Campus in August 2022 to advance her career in behavioral health. Three months later, she abruptly unenrolled when she learned the online school had taken out an over $8,000 student loan in her name — without her knowledge. Sonyee Jackson, an […]
By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian state has accused yoga guru Baba Ramdev of criminal misconduct for promoting his traditional ayurvedic medicine as a cure for COVID-19 because it was only approved as an “immunity booster”, a case filing reviewed by Reuters showed. Ramdev, whose yoga cures and ayurvedic products have made […]
Major oil companies have misled Americans for decades about the threat of human-caused climate change, according to a new report released Tuesday by Democrats in Congress. The 65-page report was the result of a three-year investigation and was made public hours before a Senate Budget Committee hearing about the role that oil and gas companies […]
Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz has been a critic of Elon Musk and Tesla for years, but his latest jabs at the billionaire CEO and his EV giant were a bit more pointed than usual. “I know I sound crazy to most people who don’t follow $TSLA closely but at this point it really needs to […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful” a federal appeals court said in a ruling blocking enforcement of the policy against a group of privately owned Texas institutions. The 5th […]
Regulators are taking aim at misleading investing advice on social media: Brokerage app M1 Finance just got fined $850,000 for hiring an army of influencers who advertised false claims about the company. FINRA, a government-sponsored nonprofit overseen by the SEC that regulates public brokerage firms, announced the fine Monday after an extended investigation into social […]
A Ph.D. student took to TikTok recently to debunk a climate myth that electric vehicles are actually worse for the environment and climate than internal combustion engine cars. The common claim cites the impact of metals mined for the construction of EVs and their batteries. TikToker Rosh (@all_about_climate), a doctoral student with degrees in earth […]
By Nate Raymond and David Shepardson (Reuters) -Iowa’s attorney general on Wednesday sued TikTok, accusing the video-based social media platform of misleading parents about their children’s access to inappropriate content on the company’s app. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird in a lawsuit filed in a state court in Polk County accused TikTok and its Chinese […]
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Iowa’s attorney general on Wednesday sued TikTok, accusing the video-based social media platform of misleading parents about their children’s access to inappropriate content on the company’s app. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird in a lawsuit filed in a state court in Polk County accused TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance […]