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Minneapolis shooting scrambles Second Amendment politics for Trump
Headline Legal News 01/23/2026Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, a...
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Jack Smith is set to testify at a public hearing about his Trump investigations
Legal Issues 01/15/2026Republican lawmakers are poised to grill former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday at a congressional hearing that’s expected to focus fresh attention on two criminal investigations that shadowed Donald Trump during his 2...
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Maduro Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Capture in U.S. Drug Case
National News 01/08/2026A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from p...
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World shares retreat despite Trump’s trade truce with Xi
National News 11/01/2025Wall Street on Friday was poised to claw back some of its losses from a day earlier after some familiar names in the tech sector reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results. Futures for S&P 500 rose 0.7% while futures for the Dow Jones indu...
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Former FBI Director Comey indicted on charges of making false statement
National News 09/25/2025Former FBI Director James Comey was charged Thursday with crimes connected to his Senate testimony in 2020 about an investigation, a major strike against a high-profile figure who has long been the target of President Donald Trump’s anger.&ldqu...
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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books
Legal Issues 09/08/2025Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as s...
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Coming price cuts at McDonald’s may signal a broader fast food price war
Legal Events 09/01/2025McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal.The price drop may induce its rivals, who have run into some of the same pricing issues, to fol...
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Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court faces critical test of independence
Lawyer Interviews 08/27/2025Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court will be seated Monday and observers will be watching closely to see whether it will assert its independence from the governing party that held the country’s first judicial elections.Just three of its n...
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Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections
Legal Events 08/23/2025The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
National News 07/23/2025Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans
Court Watch 05/20/2025The Supreme Court on Friday barred the Trump administration from quickly resuming deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law enacted when the nation was just a few years old. Over two dissenting votes, the justices acted on an emer...
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Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities
National News 04/22/2025A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, saying that portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders were unc...