Recent Updates
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Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
Legal Business 02/27/2025The Trump administration said it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world, putting numbers on its plans to eliminate the ma...
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Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week
Legal Business 02/22/2025Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, sparking confusion across key agencies as billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the size of federal ...
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Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice announces she is stepping down
Legal Business 02/21/2025The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court announced Wednesday that she is stepping down from the court by the end of April, opening the door for the court to have a 6-1 majority of Democratic-backed justices.Elizabeth Clement did not give a rea...
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TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech
Legal Business 01/10/2025In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United St...
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Rudy Giuliani is in contempt of court in $148 million defamation case
Legal Business 01/06/2025Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Monday for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers.Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled ...
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Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder and weapons charges
Legal Business 12/24/2024The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder and terror charges while his attorney complained that comments coming from New York’s mayor would make it tough to receive a fair trial...
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Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber
Legal Business 11/14/2024Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.In a rematch from 2022, ...
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Revising the rules of engagement, court says jilted bride must give back $70,000 ring
Legal Business 11/10/2024Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the wedding is called off?That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.The court ultimately ruled Friday that...
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Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
Legal Business 10/21/2024Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the count...
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Congolese military court hands down death sentence to leader of rebel coalition
Legal Business 08/06/2024A military court in Congo on Thursday sentenced 25 people, including the leader of a rebel coalition, to death after a high-profile televised trial that started late last month.Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo, or AFC, was found ...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
Legal Business 08/05/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Sacramento mass shooting suspect dies in jail cell, police and attorney say
Legal Business 06/09/2024A suspect who was being held in a California jail on charges connected to a 2022 mass shooting in the state capital died in his cell Saturday, according to police and his attorney. The 29-year-old male inmate died while in custody at the Sacramento C...