Recent Updates
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Trump confirms the CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela
Legal Analysis 10/15/2025President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations on the country.The acknowledgement of covert action in Venezuela by the U.S....
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Former FBI Director Comey indicted on charges of making false statement
Litigation Reports 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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US lawmakers push for military dialogue in a rare China visit
Litigation Reports 09/21/2025A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers pushed for more military-to-military dialogue in a meeting Sunday with China’s Premier Li Qiang, a rare congressional visit since the U.S.-China relations soured.The last trip by a group of senators was in 2...
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Senate rejects competing bills, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1
Litigation Reports 09/17/2025The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the ot...
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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books
Litigation Reports 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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Los Angeles school year begins amid fears over immigration enforcement
Legal News Headlines 08/14/2025Los Angeles students and teachers return to class for the new academic year Thursday under a cloud of apprehension after a summer filled with immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become a target in the Trump administration’s ag...
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Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
Legal Analysis 08/11/2025The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public profile.But like so much in President Donald Trum...
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Appellate judges question Trump’s authority to impose tariffs without Congress
Legal Analysis 08/01/2025Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs.Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ap...
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Victims feeling exhausted and anxious about wrangling over Epstein files
Litigation Reports 07/31/2025Women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein are feeling skeptical and anxious about the Justice Department’s handling of records related to the convicted sex offender, with some backing more public disclosures as an overdue measure of tra...
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Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back
Litigation Reports 07/27/2025Federal 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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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
Litigation Reports 07/23/2025A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadersh...
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Trump tries to blame others as tensions rise around handling of Epstein case
Legal Analysis 07/16/2025President Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, trying to place blame on former government officials.On Tuesday, he accused former...