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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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Trump signs order designating English as the official language of the US
Legal Events 03/01/2025President Donald Trump signed on Saturday an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.The order allows government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer ...
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Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM
Legal Events 02/09/2025Two former Albuquerque police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of racketeering, extortion and accepting bribes in a sweeping corruption investigation into a scheme that allegedly allowed people arrested for driving while intoxicated ...
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Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court
Legal Events 02/03/2025President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest wa...
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
Legal Events 11/17/2024The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaz...
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Hunter Biden arrives at court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial
Legal Events 05/24/2024The judge overseeing Hunter Biden ’s federal firearms charges trial agreed Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the presiden...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Events 03/15/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Trump arrives in federal court in Florida for classified docs case
Legal Events 02/11/2024Former President Donald Trump arrived Monday morning at a federal courthouse in Florida for a closed hearing in his criminal case charging him with mishandling classified documents.The hearing was scheduled to discuss the procedures for the handling ...
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Federal Judge rules California assault weapons ban unconstitutional
Legal Events 10/20/2023A federal judge who previously overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again on Thursday, ruling that the state’s attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns violates the constitutional right to bear ar...
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Tunisian court releases prominent radio director from prison
Legal Events 05/29/2023Tunisia’s most popular private radio station said an appeal court has allowed its director to be released on bail from prison, after more than three months of detention.Mosaique FM announced Wednesday that its director, Noureddine Boutar, was f...
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After Nashville, Congress confronts limits of new gun law
Legal Events 04/03/2023Nine months ago, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bipartisan gun law, the most significant legislative response to gun violence in decades.“Lives will be saved,” he said at the White House.The law has already prevented some potential...
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FTX founder could be sent to US after extradition hearing
Legal Events 12/21/2022Sam Bankman-Fried is back in a Bahamian court Wednesday for an extradition hearing that could clear the way for the one-time billionaire to be sent to the U.S. to face criminal charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.In a court...