Author: Errica Jensen

Seeing a family’s private crisis resolved through a court filing is especially unsettling. It makes no difference how well-known the participants are. Words like “vacate” and “possession” where you might anticipate something more human are used in the clinical, flat, and procedural language of the documents. Even though their disagreements never reached a courtroom, the story felt less like celebrity rumors when those court documents emerged in April 2026, showing that Kyle Richards had sued her sister Kim to evict her from an Encino condo. According to records that TMZ was able to obtain, Kyle filed the lawsuit in January…

Walk into any Dollar General on a Tuesday afternoon — the kind of store anchored in a strip mall between a laundromat and a cell phone repair shop, with fluorescent lighting and narrow aisles stacked high with cleaning supplies, canned goods, and seasonal decorations — and the whole premise of the place is the price. That’s the situation. You’re not there to create atmosphere. You’re there because the tag on the shelf says $7.00, and $7.00 is what you can afford this week. Because of this, the class action lawsuit at the heart of the Dollar General settlement deadline is…

Imagine the spring of 2020. Most cruise terminals are either empty or almost empty. Updates about a virus spreading more quickly than anyone had acknowledged in public were cycling through the news. In the midst of that chaos, Norwegian Cruise Line sales representatives were on the phone reassuring potential customers that the virus couldn’t survive in tropical temperatures, according to a multistate investigation that has now resulted in a legal settlement. Plan the trip. Avoid canceling. Everything will be alright. It wasn’t good. Six years later, NCL Bahamas, Ltd. has reached a settlement with a coalition of twelve state attorneys…

The disconnect strikes you almost instantly if you’re standing on any residential street in Forest Hills Gardens on a summer Saturday night. On one side is a peaceful, verdant community of Tudor-style houses that appear to have been transported by air from an English village to the heart of Queens. On the other hand, thousands of concertgoers are passing by, traveling through private streets in the direction of a stadium that has played host to artists such as Bob Dylan and the Beatles, as well as more recent acts that attract younger, boisterous, and less historically aware audiences. A $150,000…

On any given morning in Miami Beach, stroll along Collins Avenue past the palm trees and the salty air to see the Fontainebleau as it always has been: massive, curved, and distinctly itself. In 1954, it opened. Here, Frank Sinatra gave a performance. At least in movies, James Bond slept here. It still attracts people who are prepared to spend a lot of money for a night with a view of the ocean because of its weight and reputation, which has been established over many years. The fact that some of the actual owners of this fabled property are now…

It’s difficult to ignore the seriousness of the situation when you’re standing outside the White House on a Thursday morning in early April, with cranes towering over the empty space where the East Wing once stood. This is more than a construction dispute. It concerns who actually owns the most symbolically significant piece of land in the US and whether a president can just decide to demolish a portion of it on an October morning. Even by Washington standards, the White House ballroom construction lawsuit has advanced quickly. About a week after the Trump administration completed demolishing the East Wing,…

Six ICE vehicles blocked traffic on Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at nine in the morning on April 10, 2026, in front of the Art of Africa Hair Braiding storefront and the Encuentro Latino Restaurant. There was a man being held. There was Beth Bashert, the mayor of Ypsilanti from 2018 to 2020. She saw an ICE car and followed it with others, arriving in time to see the stop take place. They blew whistles. They gave a honk. They yelled. It took fifteen minutes instead of the usual five. The man’s car was left unlocked on the street with…

Chuck Kane received a flyer in the mail in 2018. It promoted an Equity Sharing Agreement, which allows you to take money out of your house without having to pay interest or make monthly payments. After examining it and finding it appealing, he dialed the number. In the end, he struck up a conversation with a Michigan salesman who was passionate about football. They became so close over the course of three or four phone conversations that Kane thanked him with a Barry Sanders practice jersey. Everything felt friendly and under control. After that, he signed the agreement. Eight years…

Although he is a Costco member, Russell George rarely uses his membership. That’s not out of the ordinary; many people enroll, go through a phase of purchasing 48 rolls of paper towels all at once, and then progressively stop making the trips to the warehouse while the yearly renewal process continues in silence. The distinction is that George claims that if he had been given a fair chance, he would have canceled his membership when it came time to renew it. Rather, his credit card was charged $65, the notice was sent sixty days prior to the charge, and the…

Innovation is not suggested by the road into rural Appalachian hills. When you travel far enough into the area, the scenery becomes more constrained, with small towns where the main employer closed ten years ago and the storefronts have been empty ever since, and steep ridges clogging the highway. The conventional narrative about education in these areas is one of scarcity: there are too few skilled educators, there is insufficient broadband, there is excessive poverty, and the most talented young people leave as soon as they have the opportunity. That is a true story. It simply isn’t the complete picture.…