Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s gutting of public funding for Voice of America
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge on Friday afternoon temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle Voice of America, the federally funded nonprofit state media network, after its...
View ArticleEx-Anaheim mayor gets two months for obstructing FBI probe into Angel Stadium...
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) — Former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu was sentenced to two months in jail on Friday, having pleaded guilty to charges that he obstructed a federal investigation into the city’s...
View ArticleColorado Senate Democrats send detachable magazine ban to governor’s desk
DENVER (CN) — With a vote of 19-15 on Friday, the Colorado Senate passed a bill banning firearms with removable magazines, which now heads onto the desk of Democratic Governor Jared Polis. “Quite...
View ArticleClass action over chocolate label enjoys sweet day in court
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) — A chocolate confection maker received a sour ruling Friday when a federal judge denied its motion for judgment on the pleadings, deciding that a putative class action about...
View ArticleDOJ, Google ask for limited public access to closed sessions in search...
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Justice Department and Google asked a federal judge Friday to maintain limited public access to court proceedings during a looming remedy trial regarding Google’s monopoly over...
View ArticleFederal judge dismisses lawsuit in Napa wine fight
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge Friday dismissed a lawsuit against the County of Napa filed by a small wine business challenging the various county laws that prevent it from holding tours and...
View Article‘Do your job’: Republican Representative Victoria Spartz booed at Indiana...
WESTFIELD, Ind. (CN) — A raucous crowd booed U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz throughout a two-hour town hall meeting in an Indiana suburb on Friday as the Republican congresswoman defended the...
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Marine Le Pen guilty verdict sends French politics into a tailspin
MARSEILLE, France (CN) — After a ruling that rocked France, both allies and adversaries of freshly convicted extreme-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen are raging: The top candidate for the...
View ArticleDismissal of challenge to Dominion voting system draws praise, fire in Georgia
ATLANTA (CN) — Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Tuesday applauded a judge’s dismissal of a seven-year lawsuit challenging the state’s electronic voting system as a...
View ArticleFinland to withdraw from antipersonnel mine ban treaty
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finland’s prime minister said Tuesday the country plans to withdraw from the international treaty banning antipersonnel mines, the latest signatory moving to ditch the ban...
View ArticleChina holds large-scale military drills around Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — China on Tuesday sent its army, navy, air and rocket forces to surround Taiwan for large-scale drills Beijing said were aimed at practicing for “precision strikes” and a...
View ArticleIsrael PM drops security chief nominee under fire from Trump ally
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Tuesday he had reversed a decision to appoint a former navy commander as security agency chief following criticism, including...
View ArticleFeds will seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in killing of...
MANHATTAN (CN) — The U.S. Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Maryland man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December,...
View ArticleEU, UK fine carmakers nearly $600 million over recycling cartel
BRUSSELS (AFP) — Antitrust authorities in the EU and Britain on Tuesday fined a cartel involving some of the world’s biggest carmakers about 550 million euros ($594 million) for preventing competition...
View ArticleACLU urges Supreme Court to leave order blocking deportations of Venezuelan...
WASHINGTON (CN) — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court not to get involved in its lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s March 15 deportation of 137 Venezuelan...
View ArticleEU inflation, unemployment dip ahead of trade war
(CN) — In the months leading up to the EU and the U.S. one-upping the other on whiskey prices, data published by Eurostat on Tuesday reported low and slow changes in the euro area’s inflation rate....
View ArticleRepublicans pummel national injunctions ahead of House vote
WASHINGTON (CN) — It was a judicial pile-on in the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning as Republicans and a panel of witnesses excoriated federal judges who they say have improperly leveraged...
View ArticleNevada sex offenders win $1M in fees
LAS VEGAS — A federal court in Nevada awarded more than $1 million in attorney fees to registered sex offenders who successfully challenged the Nevada government for retroactively applying restrictions...
View ArticleBallot date requirement nixed
ERIE, Penn. — A group of Democratic organizations won their Pennsylvania federal lawsuit alleging that a date requirement on ballot envelopes is unconstitutional. Requiring voters to handwrite a date...
View ArticleDeadly train-bicycle colission
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, a locomotive engineer and the city of Beverly prevailed on a widow’s lawsuit over the death of her husband, who was hit by a train while biking...
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