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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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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CDC director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign
Breaking Legal News 08/29/2025The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned. Susan Monarez isn’t “aligned with” President Donald Trump’s agenda ...
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Texas flooding underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA
Breaking Legal News 07/09/2025Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”But afte...
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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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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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Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law
Breaking Legal News 04/10/2025The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States. In a bitterly divided decision, the co...
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More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars seized at Los Angeles port
Breaking Legal News 12/01/2024More than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport, authorities said. Had the guitars been authentic, they would have been worth $18 million, U...
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Harris, Biden take in Helene’s destruction in separate visits to Carolinas, Georgia
Breaking Legal News 10/02/2024Vice President Kamala Harris praised the workers straining to “meet the needs of people who must be seen, who must be heard” on Wednesday, as she and President Joe Biden surveyed Hurricane Helene ’s path of destruction in separate v...
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Ukraine ratifies the statute for joining the International Criminal Court
Breaking Legal News 08/21/2024Ukraine ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, taking a step toward membership that Kyiv says will increase chances of prosecuting war crimes by Russians and boost victims’ chances of receiving compensation.Ukraine&rsquo...
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Trump hush money trial: Opening statements set for Monday
Breaking Legal News 04/20/2024The final jurors were seated Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, and an appellate judge rejected the former president’s latest bid to halt the case as a hectic day in court set the stage for opening statements to begin Monday.The p...
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Biden is seeking higher tariffs on Chinese steel as he courts union voters
Breaking Legal News 04/17/2024President Joe Biden is calling for a tripling of tariffs on steel from China to protect American producers from a flood of cheap imports, an announcement he planned to roll out Wednesday in an address to steelworkers in the battleground state of Penn...