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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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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...
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Georgia appeals court upholds ruling saying election officials must certify results
Legal Analysis 07/10/2025A Georgia appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that said county election officials in the state must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had ruled in October that &ldqu...
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McMahon says Columbia University’s changes put it on track to recover funding
Legal Analysis 03/21/2025U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Columbia University is “on the right track” toward recovering federal funding after the elite New York City university agreed to implement a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administ...
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Trump’s tariffs expose Ukraine’s steel industry to another war
Legal Analysis 02/15/2025The steel mill in a partially occupied region of Ukraine is a dystopian maze of flames, chutes and tentacled pipes, vast enough to be a small city. Thunderous blazes of sparks flash above the open furnaces where workers smelt iron ore into streams of...
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Appeals court overturns ex-49er Dana Stubblefield’s rape conviction
Legal Analysis 12/21/2024A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during the Black man’s trial.The retired football player was sent...
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Senior Hong Kong journalist is sentenced to prison in sedition case
Legal Analysis 09/20/2024A Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison on Thursday in a sedition case that is widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in the city, once hailed as a beacon of press freedom in Asia. A se...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Legal Analysis 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Analysis 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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Ex-Illinois lawmaker abruptly pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering
Legal Analysis 02/17/2024Former Illinois lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate William “Sam” McCann abruptly pleaded guilty on Thursday to nine felony counts of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, halting his federal corruption trial over misusing up to ...
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Trump pushes for election interference trial to be televised
Legal Analysis 11/16/2023Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold.Federal court rules prohibit broadcasting proceedin...