Recent Updates
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Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes
Daily Legal News 01/30/2026With a partial government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats laid out a list of demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement th...
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Amazon cuts about 16,000 corporate jobs in the latest round of layoffs
Practice Legal News 01/27/2026Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been red...
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Minneapolis shooting scrambles Second Amendment politics for Trump
Daily Legal News 01/22/2026Prominent 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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Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok
Legal Review 01/13/2026Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit an...
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Maduro Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Capture in U.S. Drug Case
Politics 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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Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad
Politics 01/04/2026Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, state media reported Wednesday.The official IRNA news agency identified the man as Ali Ardestani, saying he relayed sensitive information to Mossad officers in return for financial re...
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Trump and top Iranian officials exchange threats over protests roiling Iran
Political and Legal News 01/02/2026U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites in Ju...
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US announces massive arms sales to Taiwan worth more than $10 billion
Politics 12/19/2025President Donald Trump’s administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.The State Department...
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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion
Daily Legal News 12/05/2025Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two...
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Trump praises Congo and Rwanda as they sign US-mediated peace deal
Legal Review 12/02/2025President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal on Thursday aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo and opening the region’s critical mineral reserves ...
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Trump says he’s terminating legal protections for Somali migrants
Politics 12/01/2025President Donald Trump said Friday night that he’s “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administration has ...
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Trump says lax migration policies are top national security threat
Politics 11/25/2025President Donald Trump said Wednesday’s “heinous assault” on two National Guard members near the White House proves that lax migration policies are “the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.”“...