Nashville

Danny Nozell withdrew his civil suit against Bryan Seaver in a Nashville court on Thursday, ending the case that had alleged Seaver attempted to extort money from Dolly Parton’s estate. The lawsuit, filed in September, had prompted a judge to issue a temporary restraining order against Seaver during the proceedings. The estate includes an amusement park, a hotel and a museum slated to open soon.

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on 5 Nov that the sentences of 548 death‑row inmates in California will be converted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The move affects over 500 prisoners, including 529 men and 19 women, and comes as the state, which has not carried out an execution since 2006, holds the largest death‑row population in the Western Hemisphere. Newsom, a Democrat nearing the end of his second term, is widely expected to seek the 2028 presidential nomination.

The US Federal Aviation Administration will replace its legacy floppy-disk systems with a new Enterprise-Information Display System at more than 400 air-traffic control facilities, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced. The system will consolidate weather alerts, equipment outages, airspace changes and pilot reports on one digital dashboard. Upgrades have begun at five sites, including Atlantic City, Nashville, Rochester, Atlanta and Salt Lake City, with completion targeted at 435 facilities by the end of 2028.

A White House spokesman says nearly 70 million Trump accounts have been created through automatic enrollment, while a Treasury official reports more than $8 billion has been deposited nationwide. Earlier Treasury data from July showed over 6.5 million families had signed up, including more than 1.5 million eligible children. The program, created under the 2025 tax-and-spending law, gives a one-time $1,000 federal contribution to eligible U.S. citizens born between 2025 and 2028 with valid Social Security numbers. One father told Fortune he will not open an account for his daughter and will instead deposit $1,000 of his own money elsewhere.