Recent Updates
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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HK defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry
Court Watch 04/16/2025Hong Kong’s government on Monday defended its immigration procedures after a British member of parliament was denied entry to the Chinese city last week, an incident that has prompted concerns among U.K. officials.Wera Hobhouse, a member of the...
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Meta says it will resume AI training with public content from European users
International 04/14/2025Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after activists raised concerns about data privacy.The comp...
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Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal
Business Law 04/12/2025A former Conservative lawmaker and 14 others have been charged with cheating when placing bets on the timing of Britain’s general election last year, the Gambling Commission said Monday.Craig Williams was one of several people who had been inve...