Recent Updates
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Justice Department steps up pressure on cartels’ financial networks
National News 02/07/2026The Justice Department is taking direct aim at the financial lifelines of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, targeting money brokers who prosecutors say have adapted to intensified enforcement by increasingly routing drug profits through crypt...
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Son of Norway’s crown princess arrested before his trial on rape charge
Legal Events 02/03/2026The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess has been arrested, just before his trial opens on charges including rape in a case that has been an embarrassment to the royal family, police said Monday.Marius Borg Høiby was arrested on Sunday ...
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Amazon cuts about 16,000 corporate jobs in the latest round of layoffs
Ethics 01/27/2026Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been red...
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Minneapolis shooting scrambles Second Amendment politics for Trump
National News 01/23/2026Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, a...
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A federal judge is set to hear arguments on Minnesota’s immigration crackdown
National News 01/18/2026A federal judge will hear arguments Monday on whether she should at least temporarily halt the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that has led to the fatal shootings of two people by government officers.The state of Minnesota and the cities of Minnea...
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Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok
Lawyer Interviews 01/14/2026Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit an...
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Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad
National News 01/04/2026Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, state media reported Wednesday.The official IRNA news agency identified the man as Ali Ardestani, saying he relayed sensitive information to Mossad officers in return for financial re...
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Trump administration rolls out rural health funding, with strings attached
Legal Events 12/26/2025States will share $10 billion for rural health care next year in a program that aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to rural hospitals, federal officials announced Monday.But while every state applied for money from th...
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Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny
National News 12/22/2025Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind b...
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Trump bans travel from 5 more countries, imposes new limits on others
Headline Legal News 12/15/2025President Donald Trump‘s administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.This move Tuesday is part of ongoing efforts to tighten U.S. entry standards for travel and immigration. The deci...
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Supreme Court hears Alabama appeal to execute intellectually disabled man
National News 12/07/2025The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled.The justices are taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants t...
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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion
Headline Legal News 12/05/2025Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two...