LA hip-hop entrepreneur, accused gang leader ‘Big U’ denied bail
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A South Los Angeles hip hop entrepreneur and community organizer who federal prosecutors accuse of being a longtime leader of the Rollin’ 60s Crips street gang will remain jailed...
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Judge extends safeguards for Venezuelan detainees in NYC
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary restraining order stopping the Trump administration from removing a group of eight noncitizens from Venezuela who are being detained by...
View ArticleRFK Jr. plans to phase out artificial dyes from the US food supply
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday said they would phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply, potentially triggering an ingredients overhaul for scores of...
View ArticleMichigan Democrat Haley Stevens joins Mallory McMorrow and Abdul El-Sayed in...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Fourth-term U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens has launched her run for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday with a video focused on the economic crisis caused by President Donald...
View Article‘Doomsday Mom’ Lori Daybell convicted of conspiring to murder ex-husband
PHOENIX (CN) — An Arizona jury found Lori Vallow Daybell, the media-dubbed “Doomsday Mom” who murdered her two children whom she said were turned to zombies, guilty on Tuesday of conspiring to murder...
View ArticleClass action to reform Alaska foster care system clears another legal hurdle
(CN) — A putative federal class action aimed at reforming Alaska’s foster care system cleared another legal hurdle on Wednesday when a federal judge denied much of the state’s motion for summary...
View ArticleAs presidential approval rating slips, Americans tell Pew Trump is a...
(CN) — Nearing the 100-day mark of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, 40% of Americans polled by Pew Research Center say they approve of his job performance, a seven-point decline from...
View ArticleCalifornia lawmakers take look at removing state taxes on tips
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Getting a tip in the service industry isn’t guaranteed. That’s one reason why California state Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh pushed for passage of Senate Bill 17, which would...
View ArticleX sues to stop Minnesota election misinformation law
ST. PAUL (CN) — The social media company X Corp., formerly Twitter, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Federal District of Minnesota against Attorney General Keith Ellison, alleging a state statute...
View ArticleDozen states sue Trump over global tariff ‘chaos’
MANHATTAN (CN) — Twelve states on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its sweeping tariffs that have upended markets and spurred a global trade war. The attorneys general of Arizona,...
View ArticleWeinstein’s lawyer claims accusers were ‘flirtatious’ with film producer in...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein is back in court after a New York appellate ruling gave him another chance to beat his landmark #MeToo rape case. Weinstein, 73, was pushed into...
View ArticleFederal judges skeptical of Trump crackdown on law firms
WASHINGTON (CN) — A pair of federal judges doubt the Trump administration had any justification for executive orders targeting big law firms beyond the president’s personal distaste for them, saying...
View ArticleNinth Circuit relights bulk of pretrial electronic monitoring in San Francisco
(CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday vacated in part a trial judge’s preliminary injunction that barred the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office from sharing with other law enforcement...
View Article11th Circuit deems Alabama sex offender restrictions too harsh
(CN) — Alabama cannot completely prohibit convicted sex offenders from cohabitating with minors, according to an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday. After being convicted of one count of...
View ArticleProsecutor without a legal license
RICHMOND, Va. — Does a criminal conviction have to be overturned if the prosecutor didn’t have a valid license to practice law when the trial occurred? No, ruled the Virginia Court of Appeals, in this...
View ArticleThings to know about the retrial of Karen Read in the killing of her police...
(AP) — Jurors in the second murder trial of Karen Read heard conflicting evidence Thursday about her relationship with her boyfriend, the Boston police officer she’s accused of killing. Prosecutors...
View ArticleEx-Twitter exec gets go-ahead for $20 million severance suit against Elon Musk
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge advanced claims from a former chief marketing officer of what was then Twitter that she is owed $20 million in back pay. Leslie Berland, who served as the social...
View ArticleFrom banning tech to ending sister-city ties, US states have at least 240...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced at least 240 anti-China proposals this year, aiming to ensure public funds don’t buy Chinese technology or even T-shirts, coffee...
View ArticleJudge tentatively dismisses Visa from Pornhub sex trafficking lawsuits
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed claims against Visa Inc. and the former owners of Pornhub from a group of lawsuits by women who were minors when sexually explicit...
View ArticleTrump pardons Vegas pol and wire fraud convict Michele Fiore
LAS VEGAS — Michele Fiore, the former Las Vegas council member and Nye County justice of the peace convicted last year on wire fraud accusations, announced Thursday that she’d been pardoned by...
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