Recent Updates
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Interpol crackdown on illegal mining, logging and wildlife trafficking
National Legal News 10/07/2026An international crackdown on environmental crime across Latin America and the Caribbean led to 233 arrests and uncovered links between large-scale Amazon deforestation and companies across several continents, the international police organization In...
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Bolsonaro and Lula head to a runoff in Brazil's presidential election
National Legal News 10/05/2026Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil's incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off in a runoff Oct. 25 for the top job of Latin America's powerhouse economy after neither won a majority in Sunday's...
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Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP
National Legal News 05/30/2026Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court’s ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people...
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Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
National Legal News 05/23/2026The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news relea...
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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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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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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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Supreme Court sides with immigration judges in speech case for now
National Legal News 12/20/2025The Supreme Court sided with immigration judges on Friday, rebuffing the Trump administration for now in a case with possible implications for federal workers as the justices weigh expanding presidential firing power. The decision is a technical step...
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Supreme Court hears Alabama appeal to execute intellectually disabled man
National Legal News 12/10/2025The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled.The justices are taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants t...
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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment
National Legal News 10/16/2025The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first grad...
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Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics move leftward
National Legal News 10/15/2025President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to pull assistance for Argentina — led by a political kindred spirit whose philosophy is similar to that of the Republican administration — if the nation’s internal politics don’t a...
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Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
National Legal News 10/01/2025Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline. Roughly 7...