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Getty Images and Stability AI clash in UK copyright trial testing AI's future
Court Watch 06/09/2025Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The tr...
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US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire
Legal Business 06/05/2025The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to the release of hostages, saying it would embolden Hamas militants.All 14 other members of the...
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US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump sanctuary list
Legal Business 06/03/2025State and local officials blasted the Trump administration’s widely anticipated list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that are deemed uncooperative with federal immigration enforcement, with some of the most enthusiastic supporters of t...
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Poland on a knife’s edge as exit polls show a near tie in presidential runoff
Breaking Legal News 06/01/2025Exit polls in Poland’s presidential runoff Sunday showed the two candidates in a statistical tie with the race still too close to call in the deeply divided nation. The results could set the course for the nation’s political future and it...
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Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute
Court Watch 05/27/2025The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other ai...
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Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down
International 05/26/2025Immigration officials said Tomás Hernández worked in high-level posts for Cuba’s foreign intelligence agency for decades before migrating to the United States to pursue the American dream.The 71-year-old was detained by federal ag...
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow his government downsizing plans to proceed
Family Law 05/24/2025President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow him to resume his downsizing of the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.The Justice Department is challenging an order i...
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UK court lifts a block on Britain handing the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Legal Marketing 05/22/2025A British court said Thursday that the U.K. can transfer sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, overturning a block that was imposed hours before the agreement was due to be signed. High Court judge Mart...
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Trump Tells Walmart: Don’t Raise Prices, Absorb Tariff Costs Instead
Legal Business 05/17/2025President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped into Walmart, saying on social media that the retail giant should eat the additional costs created by his tariffs.As Trump has jacked up import taxes, he has tried to assure a skeptical public that foreign pr...
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Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
Court Watch 05/14/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal...
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Budget airline begins deportation flights for ICE with start of Arizona operations
Breaking Legal News 05/12/2025A budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that’s inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier’s flight attendan...
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Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s downsizing of federal agencies
Family Law 05/08/2025The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday.Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed last week by labor unions and cities, on...