Corporate payments company challenges FTC injunction at 11th Circuit
ATLANTA (CN) — A global business payments company found to have charged customers millions in unauthorized fees asked an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday to invalidate a Georgia federal...
View ArticleAmong Trump’s inauguration guests, the leader of a South American nation
BUENOS AIRES (CN) — President Javier Milei of Argentina, an anarcho-capitalist libertarian who rapidly ascended from economist and TV pundit to the nation’s president in less than three years, was one...
View ArticleMexico calls for calm, unveils repatriation plan for Trump border crackdown
MEXICO CITY (CN) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called for calm during a Tuesday press conference in response to President Donald Trump’s litany of executive orders aimed at Mexico. On his...
View ArticleDurbin a hard no on FBI nominee Patel after one-on-one meeting
WASHINGTON (CN) — Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin on Tuesday offered a harsh rebuke of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, citing what he said was the former Pentagon...
View ArticleFourth Circuit vacates lenient sentence for autistic cybercriminal
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) —A Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a lenient sentence for a cybercriminal Tuesday, determining that his sentence should reflect the seriousness of his crimes...
View ArticleVirginia moves one step closer to passing progressive constitutional amendments
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — The Virginia Senate voted Tuesday to advance a trio of constitutional amendments to guarantee Virginians’ right to abortion care, automatically restore voting rights to...
View ArticleFederal judge doubts need to block California school vaccine mandate
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday indicated he was leaning against imposing a preliminary injunction in a California school vaccine mandate case, saying the plaintiffs had no...
View ArticleCitibank loses bid to dismiss New York fraud lawsuit
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge Tuesday denied Citibank’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James who claimed the bank failed to protect its customers from online...
View ArticleFederal lawsuit challenges Illinois nonprofit demographic reporting law
CHICAGO (CN) — In a federal lawsuit filed in Chicago on Tuesday, a nonprofit group argues that a new Illinois diversity-affirmation law violates the First Amendment. The American Alliance for Equal...
View ArticleAppeals court rules Washington State University can face negligence claims...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (CN) — The Washington Court of Appeals Tuesday revived negligence claims brought by the family of a Washington State University freshman who died from alcohol poisoning during a...
View ArticleVenezuelans in Argentina despair over Maduro inauguration
BUENOS AIRES (CN) — Many of the over 200,000 Venezuelans living in Argentina are still grasping the growing uncertainty around politics back home after Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated for a third term...
View ArticleJury should hear evidence in police killing case, family tells 10th Circuit
(CN) — Whether Patrick Harmon was shot by Salt Lake City Police because he was brandishing a knife, or if he was killed while unarmed, should be decided by a jury and not by a court granting the...
View ArticleLarge wildfire erupts in rural LA County, prompting new evacuations
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A large wildfire erupted in a rural stretch of northern Los Angeles County on Wednesday, growing to more than 5,000 acres in a few hours and prompting a new round of evacuations in...
View ArticleCongress sends harsh new immigration policy to Trump’s desk
WASHINGTON (CN) — The House on Wednesday voted to approve the final version of a controversial immigration bill, sending it to the White House and making it what is likely to be the first legislation...
View ArticleImmigrant rights advocates sue DHS over expedited deportation policy
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Trump administration faces a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday for a new Department of Homeland Security policy that immigrant advocacy groups say will expand “fast-track...
View ArticleClosing arguments begin in Mike Madigan federal corruption trial
CHICAGO (CN) — Federal prosecutor Julia Schwartz re-stated the government’s most basic accusation against ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and his co-defendant Mike McClain on Wednesday, during...
View ArticleNavy can’t dodge Clean Water Act claims over Honolulu fuel storage facility
(CN) — The U.S. Navy must face claims that its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, violates the federal Clean Water Act even as it is in the process of defueling and...
View ArticleArizona Republicans move to replace vote center with precinct-based polling...
PHOENIX (CN) — For the second year in a row, Arizona lawmakers promoted a bill that would ban the use of general vote centers and instead require Arizonans to vote at a specific polling place based on...
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