News for August 18, 2025

Newsmax has agreed to pay $67m to settle Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 US election.

Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are suing Meta and TikTok, saying the platforms wrongly banned their accounts in 2022 and caused major financial and reputational harm.

Rachel Maddox says raw milk from Keely Farms Dairy made her toddler seriously ill and led to the loss of her unborn baby, and she is now suing the farm and a retailer over the incident.

Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen,” has agreed to plead guilty in the drug case tied to Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose.

Police say there are inconsistencies in Rebecca Haro’s account of her 7-month-old son Emmanuel’s reported kidnapping, and investigators have not ruled out foul play.

Texas Democrats ended their walkout, letting Republicans move ahead with a redistricting plan that could add GOP seats, while California Democrats push a rival map fight in response.

Newly unsealed records show Bryan Kohberger was linked to the Idaho student killings through a surviving roommate’s account and other evidence, while key questions about motive remain unanswered.