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Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and ...

A jury on Monday quickly rejected a man's claim that Disney's "Moana" was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii.

But unlike the systemic disruption going on now in Washington, the change would be at the will of millions of Americans ...

A federal judge criticizes the Justice Department for failing to show evidence of racial discrimination in the Louisville Police Department.

A Los Angeles jury decided on March 10, 2025, that Disney did not steal the idea for its 2016 animated movie Moana. The ...

Have you ever felt like giving up because things just aren’t going your way? We all have been through this feeling! But every ...

The stately home in is looking to reclaim the bones of the 48-foot sperm whale after so it can be put back together ...

Curator of the museum Philippa Wood believes people have taken bones as souvenirs, with 11 of its 44 vertebrae and much of ...

Disney wins $100m copyright trial against animator over Moana plagiarism claims - Animator Buck Woodall claimed Disney copied ...