Recent Updates
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A man shot by ICE in California pleads not guilty to federal charges
National Legal News 05/04/2026A man who was shot multiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in central California pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges that he rammed his vehicle into two agents, prosecutors said.A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Carl...
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Trump’s lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president’s $10B lawsuit
Legal Compliance 04/26/2026Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency over the leak of his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. In a federal c...
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Already under financial pressure, Midwest soybean farmers are squeezed further by tariffs
Legal Compliance 04/14/2026Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues a...
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Immigration lawyers accuse Vermont prisons of impeding their work
National Legal News 03/16/2026Attorneys and volunteers with the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project used to go into Vermont's prisons and meet with every immigration detainee, using their phones and computers for language interpretation, according to Jill Martin Diaz, executive dir...
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No new trial for man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley
Legal Compliance 03/11/2026A judge has rejected a request for a new trial for a Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration.Lawyers for Jose Ibarra argued his constitutional ri...
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Supreme Court Blocks California Transgender Student Disclosure Law
U.S. Court Watch 03/03/2026The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student’s approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group. The order blocks for...
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Trump administration reaches a trade deal to lower Taiwan’s tariff barriers
Law Journals 02/13/2026The Trump administration reached a trade deal with Taiwan on Thursday, with Taiwan agreeing to remove or reduce 99% of its tariff barriers, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said.The agreement comes as the U.S. remains reliant on Taiwan for...
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Investigators searching a location in Arizona in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
National Legal News 02/12/2026A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona...
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Justice Department steps up pressure on cartels’ financial networks
Legal Compliance 02/05/2026The Justice Department is taking direct aim at the financial lifelines of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, targeting money brokers who prosecutors say have adapted to intensified enforcement by increasingly routing drug profits through crypt...
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Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes
Legal Compliance 01/30/2026With a partial government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats laid out a list of demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement th...
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Jack Smith is set to testify at a public hearing about his Trump investigations
Legal Compliance 01/18/2026Republican lawmakers are poised to grill former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday at a congressional hearing that’s expected to focus fresh attention on two criminal investigations that shadowed Donald Trump during his 2...
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The BBC seeks to dismiss Trump’s $10B defamation lawsuit in a Florida court
Law Review 01/13/2026The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show. Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The ...