Federal judge sides with former Jussie Smollett attorney in long-simmering...
CHICAGO (CN) — U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland granted summary judgment to former Jussie Smollett attorney Tina Glandian on Friday, settling for now a more than 5-year defamation case brought against...
View ArticleFormer CEO of mortgage lender company appeals fraud conviction
MANHATTAN (CN) — Former CEO for the now-defunct reverse mortgage lender Live Well Financial asked the Second Circuit Friday to overturn his conviction for defrauding lenders, claiming his attorney was...
View Article‘Gringo’ trademark dispute
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit reinstated two authors’ lawsuit against filmmakers who changed the name of their movie from “American Express” to “Gringo,” the same title as the authors’ unrelated...
View ArticleMixed bag for FBI, California Muslims
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View ArticleDungeness crab beware! Commercial season opening soon in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — After a series of delays this year, commercial Dungeness crab season will start on Jan. 5 for most of California. The Sonoma-Mendocino county line to the Mexico border will...
View ArticleBoston University and housing accommodations
BOSTON — Boston University secured only a partial dismissal of a student’s Americans with Disabilities Act retaliation claim, according to which the school refused to renew his housing contract after...
View ArticleCan’t just call it a sham
BOSTON — The First Circuit finds that the Board of Immigration Appeals erred when it refused to reconsider someone’s immigration status after denying him asylum on a lack of credibility even though he...
View ArticleFeds accuse major banks of allowing Zelle fraud
PHOENIX (CN) — A federal regulator sued three major U.S. banks on Friday, claiming the institutions failed to protect hundreds of thousands of consumers from rampant fraud on the popular payments...
View ArticleAt least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market...
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what...
View ArticleWhite House starts scrapping pending regulations on transgender athletes and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student-athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first...
View ArticleAmazon and Starbucks workers are on strike. Trump might have something to do...
(AP) — Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to...
View ArticleIndiana man sentenced to the maximum of 130 years in prison for 2017 killings...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike was sentenced to a maximum of 130 years in prison Friday in the case that’s...
View ArticleSixth Circuit holds Michigan state lawmakers can’t challenge citizen-led...
(CN) — A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that struck down Michigan lawmakers’ attempt to kill voter-backed election law reforms. A three-judge appellate...
View ArticleJudge approves sanctions against Israeli spyware company NSO Technologies
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge Friday approved sanctions against Israeli spyware company NSO Group Technologies for withholding evidence in a computer fraud lawsuit by WhatsApp and its parent...
View ArticleGoogle asks federal judge to take ‘caution’ while crafting monopoly remedy
WASHINGTON (CN) — Google urged a federal judge to take caution when deciding how to address the tech giant’s internet search monopoly Friday, in its proposed final judgment for a looming remedy trial....
View ArticleCongress sidesteps shutdown with eleventh-hour budget patch
WASHINGTON (CN) — Congress survived yet another fiscal near miss Friday night, as lawmakers in both chambers agreed to advance a stopgap budget that extends funding for federal programs through the...
View ArticleSenate Dems’ SCOTUS ethics report highlights key findings — but few results
WASHINGTON (CN) — Senate Democrats on Saturday published a new report rolling up more than a year of investigation into the Supreme Court, detailing what lawmakers said were a “consistent stream of...
View ArticleBlast sinks Russian state cargo ship in Mediterranean
MOSCOW (AFP) — Two crew members are missing after a Russian defense ministry-owned cargo ship sank in international waters in the Mediterranean following an explosion on board, Moscow said Tuesday,...
View ArticleFive convicted over Amsterdam violence against Israelis
AMSTERDAM (AFP) — A Dutch court on Tuesday convicted five men for their part in last month’s violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam that shocked the world and sparked accusations of...
View ArticleBaby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia’s Siberia
MOSCOW (AP) — The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region who call it the best-preserved...
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