Recent Updates
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Trump says he’s terminating legal protections for Somali migrants
Breaking Legal News 11/22/2025President Donald Trump said Friday night that he’s “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administration has ...
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Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite
International 11/20/2025A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.” Andre McKechn...
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FEMA acting chief David Richardson departs after six months on the job
Legal Careers News 11/17/2025The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency left his job Monday after just six months, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the latest disruption in a year of mass staff departures, program cuts and policy upheaval at the...
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Longest government shutdown in US history ends after 43 days
Breaking Legal News 11/15/2025President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at...
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Federal immigration agents will expand enforcement action in N. Carolina
Criminal Law 11/14/2025Federal immigration authorities will expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor of the state’s capital city said, while Customs and Border Protection agents continue operating in Charlotte followi...
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Dominican appeals court to hear arguments on Franco’s conviction
International 11/11/2025Wander Franco’s attorneys pushed to have the suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop’s sexual-abuse conviction and sentencing overturned Tuesday.Franco in June was convicted of sexually abusing a minor, and he then received a two-year suspende...
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Ukraine’s army chief visits besieged city as Zelenskyy confronts graft scandal
Political and Legal 11/09/2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is grappling with the fallout from allegations in a major corruption scandal that has engulfed his administration, while European Union officials warned that Ukraine must crack down on graft but offered assuran...
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Republican US Rep. Elise Stefanik is running for governor of New York
Court Watch 11/07/2025U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a close Republican ally of President Donald Trump, announced Friday that she’s running for governor of New York, a place she depicted in a campaign launch video as being “in ashes” because of lawlessness an...
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California voters take up Prop 50, a Democratic push for more US House seats
Legal Business 11/06/2025The national battle to control the U.S. House shifts to California on Tuesday as voters consider a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts and blunt President Donald Trump’s moves to safeguard his party’s...
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California voters take up Prop 50, a Democratic push for more US House seats
Legal Business 11/04/2025The national battle to control the U.S. House shifts to California on Tuesday as voters consider a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts and blunt President Donald Trump’s moves to safeguard his party’s...
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Kimberly-Clark buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in $48.7 billion deal
Business Law 11/02/2025Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion, creating a massive consumer health goods company.Shareholders of Kimberly-Clark will own about 54% of the combined company. Kenvue shareholders will own...
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China’s Xi promises to protect free trade at APEC as Trump snubs major summit
International 10/30/2025Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders on Friday that his country would help to defend global free trade at an annual economic regional forum snubbed by U.S. President Donald Trump.Xi took center stage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooper...