President Donald Trump’s tariffs are threatening to put a crimp in Christmas. The United States imports as much as 75% of the toy products it sells from China, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, making it one of the industries most reliant on that country’s supply chain. Along with sports equipment and games, it is the fourth-largest import category from that nation. As a result, toy industry officials are warning U.S. consumers to expect higher prices and fewer choices this year, including for the holidays, as a result of Trump’s...

A brief but disastrous encounter between two strangers at the Providence Park light-rail station left one man dead on Christmas Eve 2023 and the other sentenced to 20 years in state prison Friday.

With a history of altercations on the MAX system and a recent schizophrenia diagnosis, Edel Aragon-Cruz was waiting for the westbound train about 6:30 p.m. that Dec. 24 when 23-year-old Juan Orellana-Gavarrete approached and asked for a “puff of his vape pen,” according to court documents.

Mariah Carey successfully got a lawsuit accusing her of ripping off the lyrics and melody of another song for her hit holiday track All I Want For Christmas Is You, with a judge finding 'an absence of evidence' to support allegations the songstress copied her tune from another. Carey, 55, was accused of copying Troy Powers and Andy Stone's 1989 song - which is also named All I Want For Christmas Is You - in a 2023 lawsuit, in which they alleged her 1994 holiday track was similar to their...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from other songwriters. In 2023, songwriters Andy Stone of Louisiana — who goes by the stage name Vince Vance — and Troy Powers of Tennessee filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging that Carey’s 1994 song, which has since become a holiday standard and annual streaming sensation, infringed the copyright of their country 1989 song with the same title. Fox said it is his experience that judges...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You" from other songwriters. Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani granted Carey's request for summary judgment on Wednesday, giving her and co-writer and co-defendant Walter Afanasieff a victory without going to trial. In 2023, songwriters Andy Stone of Louisiana — who goes by the stage name Vince Vance — and Troy Powers of Tennessee filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging that Carey's 1994 song, which has since become a...

In 2023, two songwriters filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging Carey's 1994 song infringed the copyright of their country 1989 song with the same title. LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You" from other songwriters. In 2023, songwriters Andy Stone of Louisiana — who goes by the stage name Vince Vance — and Troy Powers of Tennessee filed the $20 million lawsuit alleging that Carey's 1994 song, which has since...

Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from a country song of the same name. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Los Angeles in a ruling on Wednesday said the writers of Vince Vance and the Valiants' “All I Want for Christmas Is You” failed to show their song was objectively similar enough to Carey’s to support their copyright infringement case. Attorneys for the songwriters, lawyers for Carey and spokespeople for her label, Sony...

A federal judge has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey‘s smash hit “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Country singer and songwriter Vince Vance previously alleged that Carey had ripped off his band Vance & the Valiants’ 1988 Christmas jingle of the same name, but Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani rejected his allegations, in a Wednesday ruling, citing evidence from a musicologist that the two tracks were “different” and shared “commonplace Christmas song clichés,” found in many other songs. The judge reported that plaintiffs Vince, whose real name is...

Meghan Markle revealed a unique Christmas gift that her mother, Doria Ragland , once gave her. In episode six of her new lifestyle series With Love, Meghan , the Duchess of Sussex, 43, is dehydrating citrus for margaritas she plans to serve when she shares that Ragland once bought her a food dehydrator for Christmas. “My home also has a lot of fruit trees,” Meghan added. “We share it with friends and donate to a local food bank.” Ragland also joins Meghan, Prince Harry and some of Meghan’s friends for...