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  • Los Angeles school year begins amid fears over immigration enforcement

    Los Angeles school year begins amid fears over immigration enforcement

    Legal News Headlines 08/14/2025

    Los 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...

  • Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans

    Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans

    Legal News Headlines 05/11/2025

    The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal...

  • Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal

    Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal

    Legal News Headlines 04/08/2025

    A former Conservative lawmaker and 14 others have been charged with cheating when placing bets on the timing of Britain’s general election last year, the Gambling Commission said Monday.Craig Williams was one of several people who had been inve...

  • Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit

    Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit

    Legal News Headlines 09/03/2024

    Veering from the campaign trail to a courtroom, Donald Trump quietly observed Friday as his lawyer fought to overturn a verdict finding the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.The Republican nominee and his accuser, E. Jean Carrol...

  • X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’

    X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’

    Legal News Headlines 08/15/2024

    Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.X is removing all re...

  • Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban

    Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban

    Legal News Headlines 07/21/2024

    A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...

  • Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison

    Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison

    Legal News Headlines 07/17/2024

    Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...

  • Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

    Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

    Legal News Headlines 06/19/2024

    Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...

  • Ippei Mizuhara sports betting case: Shohei Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty

    Ippei Mizuhara sports betting case: Shohei Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty

    Legal News Headlines 06/05/2024

    As an interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara was supposed to bridge the gap between baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his English-speaking teammates and fans as the duo traveled from Southern California to ballparks across the U.S.Instead, Mizuhara exploited the ...

  • Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order

    Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order

    Legal News Headlines 05/05/2024

    Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.A visibly i...

  • Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case

    Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case

    Legal News Headlines 04/24/2024

    Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former preside...

  • Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail

    Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail

    Legal News Headlines 02/28/2024

    Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...