Recent Updates
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Court won’t revive a Minnesota ban on gun-carry permits for young adults
Legal Compliance 04/25/2025The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Minnesota asking to revive the state’s ban on gun-carry permits for young adults.The justices also left in place a ban on guns at the University of Michigan, declining to hear an appeal from a...
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Court sides with the FDA in its dispute over sweet-flavored vaping products
Legal Compliance 04/05/2025The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for the Food and Drug Administration in its crackdown on sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use.But the justices’ unanimous decision throwing out a federal appeals ...
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Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
Legal Compliance 03/21/2025Under threat from the Trump administration, Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.The changes,...
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Trump administration says South African ambassador has to leave the US
Legal Compliance 03/17/2025The State Department says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, who was declared “persona non grata” last week, has until Friday to leave the country.After Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that Ambassador Ebrahim ...
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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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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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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...
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Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
Legal Compliance 01/22/2025President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.It was not immediately clear how much assistance woul...
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Legal Compliance 01/18/2025Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...
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Supreme Court’s decision on a looming TikTok ban could come Friday
Legal Compliance 01/16/2025The Supreme Court ‘s decision could come Friday in the case about whether TikTok must shut down in a few days under a federal law that seeks to force its sale by the Chinese company that owns the social media platform used by 170 million people...
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Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers
Legal Compliance 01/02/2025Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oa...