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UPDATED with suit dropped: Deadline confirmed on Thursday that Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari has dropped the federal lawsuit in which she accused him of assault and defamation. The suit, originally filed in March in New York federal court, came less than a month before Majors was…

Just hours after scandal-ridden ex-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took himself out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s attorney general, the former and future president has gone back to the Sunshine State for his second choice to be America’s top cop. Former Florida AG Pam Bondi is the new pick to run the…

Shares of mighty Alphabet are down about 7% today after the U.S. Department of Justice said it should sell its Chrome web browser among other remedies after the tech giant lost a landmark antitrust case last summer. Government lawyers said in a filing that splitting Google's dominant search engine…

(Updated with Special Prosecutor statement) Jussie Smollett’s 2021 conviction over his alleged fake assault on the streets of Chicago is now behind the Empire actor. However, the former U.S. Attorney appointed to the case insists this decision doesn’t mean Smollett is innocent of falsely reporting a MAGA…

A lawsuit seeking class action status accuses Meta of rolling back its now shuttered Facebook Watch streaming video service to give Netflix a clear path as part of a deal to split the spoils of the new digital landscape. The antitrust suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…

Prosecutors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking case have just been ordered by a New York judge to destroy all copies of almost 20 pages of material obtain in a recent raid of the much accused and  incarcerated performer’s jail cell. In a win for the ‘All About the Benjamins’ performer, the U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Georgian Anti-Putin drama The Antique, which had its world premiere at Venice's Giornate degli Autori temporarily suspended after Russian and Croatian producers issued an injunction claiming copyright issues, is back in the courts again. The film's Georgian producer Zurab Magalashvili at…

December 3 can’t come soon enough for the Menendez Brothers. The first week after Thanksgiving finds new Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman taking office. As the former U.S. Assistant Attorney General made clear in his successful campaign against one-term incumbent George Gascón…

A suddenly called hearing tomorrow in incarcerated Sean “DIddy” Combs’ sex trafficking case could prove a vital inflection point for next year’s trial and a U.S. Attorney’s office about to get a new boss. In a late November 15 filing, current U.S. Attorney Damian Williams revealed prosecutors had…

UPDATED with official announcement: The NBA and Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to an 11-year partnership that will promote NBA content and accelerate global growth of WBD's TNT Sports Bleacher Report & House of Highlights, ending a months-long legal battle. The media giant also gets a full package of…

As Yellowjackets fans eagerly await Season 3, Showtime has been hit with a lawsuit claiming the idea for the Emmy-nominated series was stolen from the 2015 Shyam Madiraju-helmed survival thriller Eden. Filed Nov. 14 in New York federal court, the copyright infringement lawsuit also names Lionsgate…

Donald Trump has selected two attorneys who defended him in his New York hush money trial to top roles in the Justice Department. Todd Blanche has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general, while Trump selected Emil Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general. Bove also will serve as…