Judge Nkosinathi Chili, of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg, took minutes to dismiss Jacob Zuma's latest bid to force the removal of his corruption prosecutor, Billy Downer.
Community Choir All Aloud hosted a charity Coffee Morning in Oria on Saturday 23 March to support the Children’s Ward at La Immaculada Hospital in Huercal Overa. The event surpassed expectations, raising over €1100, with more donations still coming in. Starting at 10.30am, the morning began slowly but quickly gained momentum. Attendees enthusiastically participated in […]
People jump into Blue Marsh Lake for Marsh Madness fundraising event.
Glenn Scott is a recently ‘discovered’ new talent for New Matilda, after we came across an epic rant on his personal Facebook page (about coffee). ‘Discovered’ in scare quotes, because, apparently, Glenn’s been around for quite a while. Or so his birth certificate would have us believe. In any event, good writers should write, soMore
A federal judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit that DirecTV filed against Nexstar last year accusing the TV station giant of price-fixing in connection with its retransmission consent negotiations with the satellite TV platform. DirecTV’s suit, filed in New York’s Southern District in March 2023, accused Nexstar of engaging in price-fixing activity around the retransmission […]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been locked in a legal battle of one kind or another since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. Most recently, Pitt filed a lawsuit against Jolie over her 2021 sale of her shares in their winery Château Miraval to the Stoli group. Pitt’s suit, which sought monetary damages, legal fees and for the sale to be voided, accused Jolie of seeking to “inflict harm” on him with the sale to “a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions,” per Entertainment Tonight....
Justice Heather Perkins-McVey is giving both sides more time to build a case.
A man is setting out for an extraordinary trek across American on food and he began his journey right here in South Carolina.
New York State Senator Julia Salazar (D, WF-18th district) discusses New York's housing crisis and a "good cause" eviction bill she's sponsored, plus other issues in play as part of the state budget.
On Monday in San Francisco, U.S. District Court judge Charles Breyer dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s X against a nonprofit that researches hate speech online. The social media company formerly known as Twitter, which Musk has controlled since October 2022, sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in July after the nonprofit published a series of reports showing that the company seemed not to be taking down hateful and bigoted posts. X’s suit alleged that the organization...
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by award-winning writer Wendell Berry and his wife to stop the University of Kentucky from removing a mural that has been the object of protests for its depictions of Black people and Native Americans. But the ruling also protects the artwork. The lawsuit was filed in 2020 after Eli Capilouto, the university president, announced that the mural would be coming down. Painted in the 1930s by Ann Rice O’Hanlon, the fresco mural shows the history of Lexington in...
How many times in your life have you gotten hurt and your first reaction to the pain is to scream out some form of profanity? It’s like some sort of reflex, right? Well, according to a fantastic new study, cursing and using obscene gestures like giving the middle finger can help reduce pain and increase […]