Recent Updates
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Jury begins deliberating in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree
Criminal Law 05/06/2025Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the case of two men charged with cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree that once stood along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have pleaded not guilty ...
-
Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting
Business Law 05/05/2025Wall Street is pointing toward losses Tuesday ahead of a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve, which is facing the diametrically opposed challenges of potential inflation and a softening employment landscape.Futures for the S&P 500 lost 0.7% an...
-
Warren Buffett shocks shareholders by announcing his intention to retire
Business Law 05/03/2025Warren Buffett shocked an arena full of his shareholders Saturday by announcing that he wants to retire at the end of the year. Buffett said he will recommend to Berkshire Hathaway’s board that Greg Abel should become CEO at the end of the year...
-
Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders
Court Watch 04/26/2025Two major law firms asked separate judges Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were meant to punish them and harm their business operations.The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — say the o...
-
Supreme Court sides with the FDA in its dispute over vaping products
Legal Business 04/17/2025The 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 ...