Recent Updates
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Texas lawmaker introduces bill to clarify abortion ban exceptions
National Legal News 03/15/2025A Texas lawmaker who helped pioneer the state’s restrictive abortion laws introduced a bill on Friday to clarify medical exceptions allowed under the law, representing a pivot from Republican legislators who have defended the state’s abor...
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Austria’s new government is stopping family reunions immediately for migrants
National Legal News 03/13/2025The new Austrian government said Wednesday that family reunion procedures for migrants will be immediately halted because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately.The measure is temporary and intended to ensure that those migrants...
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Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges
National Legal News 03/07/2025A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.By a 5-4 vote, the court’s co...
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Court allows White House ban on Associated Press to continue temporarily
National Legal News 02/25/2025In a federal courtroom Monday afternoon, a significant legal battle unfolded as The Associated Press (AP) pressed its case against three staff members of President Donald Trump's administration. The news agency is seeking to reverse the Trump adminis...
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Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come
National Legal News 02/23/2025Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists President Donald Trump ’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is op...
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Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection
National Legal News 02/20/2025Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year.Nikola was a hot start-up and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scanda...
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Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case
Legal Compliance 02/16/2025Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”Spared from jail as part of a plea...
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Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM
Legal Compliance 02/11/2025Two former Albuquerque police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of racketeering, extortion and accepting bribes in a sweeping corruption investigation into a scheme that allegedly allowed people arrested for driving while intoxicated ...
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Justice Department reinstates funding for immigration court guidance programs
National Legal News 02/05/2025The Justice Department’s initial stop-work order on January 22 placed a temporary halt on four federally funded programs designed to provide guidance and assistance to individuals facing deportation. These programs were critical in helping peop...
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Trump Enacts Laken Riley Act: First Bill of Second Presidency
Legal Compliance 02/04/2025President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration on Wednesday—a piece of legislation bearing the name of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student whose tragic death galvanized supporters during his White House campaign.Trump...
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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants
National Legal News 01/31/2025A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives.The order capped the most chaotic da...
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A man shot himself in the head inside a Baltimore courthouse, police say
Legal Compliance 01/29/2025A man who appeared to be suffering from a “behavioral crisis” walked into the entrance of a Baltimore courthouse and shot himself in the head after authorities tried to interact with him before a security area, the city’s police com...