“Earlier this month, Ross-Stanton filed suit against Fox in Britain, arguing that the network did not adequately protect her husband and did not hold the necessary insurance to be able to fully compensate his family after his death. She is asking for more than 9 million pounds — approximately $11.6 million — in compensation. Ross-Stanton’s suit argues that Fox is liable for the absence of a security consultant and for what she says was inadequate risk assessment before the trip.”

“BBC Studios last year set out proposals to sell adverts in a push to make more money to support the corporation away from its traditional licence fee income. But companies in the commercial radio and podcasting industry hit out at the move, warning that the adverts would cannibalize their revenues, with the publicly funded and biggest British broadcaster posing unfair competition.”

“The Trump administration says it has restored funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Open Technology Fund after the groups sued. The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) had cut off the funding as part of the administration’s broader effort to eliminate the agency, which also oversees Voice of America. In a pair of new court filings, the Justice Department said the groups’ demands for injunctions are effectively moot now that the government has restored the funding.”

“The lawsuit, filed by Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America’s director, marks the latest legal challenge to the administration’s push to shrink the government … The suit argues that dismantling the broadcaster violates federal law, including the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations. It is also a violation of separation of powers, the plaintiffs said, because Congress is solely responsible for creating or abolishing agencies, and for determining agencies’ mandates. The Agency for Global Media is congressionally chartered as an independent agency.”

“Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong defended his decision to pull back his editorial board’s planned endorsement of former Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview on far-right host Tucker Carlson’s podcast. ‘I said, this is unacceptable. And as you can see, because it’s a left lean, they wrote terrible stories about President [Donald] Trump,’ Soon-Shiong told Carlson in an interview that aired Wednesday. ‘So my statement to them was, you may have an opinion, but all of us should have opinions based on facts.'”

“In a statement, the BBC said: ‘This morning, the Turkish authorities deported BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen from Istanbul, having taken him from his hotel the previous day and detained him for 17 hours. Mark Lowen was in Turkey to report on the recent protests. He has been told he was deported for ‘being a threat to public order.'”

“A federal judge on Wednesday rejected OpenAI’s request to toss out a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times that alleges that the tech company exploited the newspaper’s content without permission or payment. In an order allowing the lawsuit to go forward, Judge Sidney Stein, of the Southern District of New York, narrowed the scope of the lawsuit but allowed the case’s main copyright infringement claims to go forward … The judge’s ruling means that the suit can now proceed to trial, but a trial date has not been set.”

“‘NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical leftwing echo chambers,’ said the Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene during her opening remarks, accusing NPR of having a ‘communist agenda.’ The hearing, called ‘Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,’ was chaired by Greene who is head of a ‘delivering on government efficiency’ group within the House oversight committee.”

“The platform, which will be known as SI Predict, joins a growing field of quasi-betting exchanges, including Polymarket and Kalshi, which offer products based on derivatives contracts. SI Predict will be available globally and feature bets on things such as football-game attendance or what song a halftime musician will perform, but not who will win a specific game…the Sports Illustrated brand is now owned by Authentic Brands Group Inc., which licenses it out for ventures including ticketing platform SI Tickets, hospitality operator SI Resorts and film, television and podcast producer SI Studios.”

“The international network is in court in Washington, D.C., seeking a permanent reversal of [Kari] Lake’s orders to kill all funding for it and to wind down all operations, despite a congressional appropriation of $142 million for the network in the current fiscal year…The network argued the agency’s effort to shut it down is unconstitutional. In his ruling on Tuesday, the judge presiding over the case suggested he found that argument compelling.”