Trump admin pushes Supreme Court to throw out protective status for...
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump called on the Supreme Court on Thursday to strip nearly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the U.S. of temporary protected status. The Justice Department...
View ArticleProsecutors in Thailand say they won’t pursue royal defamation case against...
BANGKOK (AP) — State prosecutors in Thailand announced Thursday that they don’t intend to press charges against an American academic arrested for royal defamation, an offense punishable by up to 15...
View ArticleLuigi Mangione moves to dismiss murder, terrorism charges in New York
MANHATTAN (CN) — Luigi Mangione, the Maryland man accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December, on Thursday moved to dismiss his murder and terrorism charges in New...
View ArticleOn National Day of Prayer, Satanic group fights misconceptions at California...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — The hexorcism took place on the west side of the California Capitol, under the shade of a nearby tree. Rob the Impaler, with Satanic NorCal, performed the ceremony on three...
View ArticleLA’s aerial gondola dream shot down by appeals court
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A proposal to build an aerial gondola to Dodger Stadium suffered a legal setback on Thursday when the California Court of Appeals rejected the approval of the project by the Los...
View ArticleSan Diego unions join striking UC health care workers at Balboa Park rally
SAN DIEGO (CN) — Hundreds of unionized workers and supporters took to the streets of San Diego to back striking University of California researchers and health care and tech workers on Thursday in...
View ArticleJudge orders government to explain detention of Georgetown professor
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – A U.S. district court judge on Thursday demanded answers from government attorneys about the detention of Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown professor arrested and transported more...
View ArticleDOJ accuses Illinois of interfering with federal immigration policy via...
CHICAGO (CN) — The Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Labor, its director Jane Flanagan and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul Thursday over a state...
View Article‘Swatting’ spree lands Wisconsin man a 44-month prison sentence
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A 23-year-old man from Wisconsin was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison for his part in a week-long “swatting spree,” in which he and his collaborators made bogus 911 calls...
View ArticleIsraeli spyware company CEO testifies in Meta damages trial
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — NSO Group CEO Yaron Shohat sparred with lawyers from Meta as he took the stand Thursday in a damages trial with the tech giant. Although the Israeli executive accepted legal...
View ArticleCities, counties sue over Trump-imposed grant conditions
SEATTLE (CN) — A coalition of cities and counties sued the Trump administration in federal court on Friday over grant funding conditions the cities say are intended to coerce recipients into...
View ArticleCalifornia fails to convince judge on cancer warning for acrylamide
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A permanent injunction issued Friday by a federal judge will prohibit California from requiring Proposition 65 warnings for dietary acrylamide, finding that the debate...
View ArticleTrump asks justices to open Social Security doors for DOGE
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump put the Supreme Court in the middle of another tug-of-war between the executive and the judiciary on Friday, asking the justices to jettison a lower court...
View ArticleAbercrombie & Alzheimer’s
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View ArticleFighting interference charges, Arizona county official points to successful...
PHOENIX (CN) — Accused of conspiring to interfere with the 2022 general elections, an Arizona county supervisor argued for the second time in court on Friday that his decision to delay the canvass of...
View ArticleDue process class action vs. ICE
SEATTLE — A federal court in Washington partially granted a motion for class certification in a resident’s lawsuit against ICE over the Tacoma Immigration Court’s practice of holding U.S. residents in...
View ArticleMozilla exec warns DOJ remedies in Google monopoly trial could crush Firefox
WASHINGTON (CN) — A top Mozilla browser executive testified Friday that the Justice Department’s proposals to remedy Google’s monopoly over internet search could jeopardize its Firefox browser and...
View ArticleAnti-abortion activist claims San Diego can’t prove leafletting outside...
SAN DIEGO (CN) — The city of San Diego can’t prove that demonstrations outside of schools have caused any disruption to students’ learning before, therefore an anti-abortion activist should be allowed...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks Trump’s throttling of Perkins Coie
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its work on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, slamming the order...
View ArticleUS sues to kill Colorado ‘sanctuary’ laws protecting immigrants
DENVER (CN) — The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Colorado in federal court on Friday, challenging a suite of “sanctuary” laws passed in the wake of Donald Trump’s first term to provide...
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