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Year: 2022

Former UCLA gynecologist is found guilty of sexually abusing his patients, prosecutors say

By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A former UCLA obstetrician-gynecologist who worked for the university for decades has been found guilty of sexually assaulting patients in his care, prosecutors announced Thursday. James Heaps, 65, was convicted of three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person,

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Man charged with federal hate crime for attacking a Jehovah’s Witnesses place of worship in Washington state in 2018

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man in Washington state has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with a 2018 attack on a Jehovah’s Witnesses’ place of worship, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Mikey Diamond Starrett, 50, is accused of shooting at and damaging the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall of Yelm, Washington,

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Latest move in chess cheating scandal: a defamation lawsuit from grandmaster Hans Niemann seeking $100 million in damages

By Matt Foster, CNN The cheating scandal that has consumed the chess world has taken its latest twist as American grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a defamation lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen amongst others in a Missouri court on Thursday. In the lawsuit, Niemann and his attorneys state that they are seeking at least $100

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Google hit with $162 million fine from Indian regulators over anti-competitive practices

Swati Gupta, CNN Business Google is facing the heat in India. The country’s antitrust regulator has imposed a penalty of approximately 13.4 billion rupees ($162 million) on Alphabet Inc’s Google for abusing its “dominant position in multiple markets in the Android mobile device ecosystem.” The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has asked Google to modify

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