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Justice Alito says he is staying on Supreme Court for another term
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito tamped down speculation that he could soon retire, telling the Wall Street Journal in an article published on Friday that he intended to re...
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Trump's attack on 'birth tourism' faces uphill legal battle after Supreme Court ruling
When the U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled in favor of broad citizenship rights for babies born in the United States, one of the most conservative justices complained that the decis...
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US judge blocks Trump administration's third attempt to cancel VA union contract
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ruled for the third time that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs cannot terminate a union contract covering 320,000 employees, in an...
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Explainer: How could New Mexico's $567 million ruling change Meta?
A New Mexico state court ordered Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, to make major changes to its platforms and pay the largest sum yet in a growing wave of U.S. litig...
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Senate confirms Trump pick to oversee TSA as administration pushes private airport security
The U.S. Senate voted on Friday to confirm David Cummins, a senior vice president of Serco , to head the Transportation Security Administration as the Trump administration pushes...
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US Senate confirms Trump nominees for labor board, cementing Republican control
The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed President Donald Trump's nominees for two spots on the agency that enforces federal labor law, giving Republicans enough votes to undo a series...
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'How to Kill a Federal Judge' author convicted of threatening US judges
A Minnesota man was convicted on Friday on charges that he wrote and distributed a 236-page manuscript titled "How to Kill a Federal Judge" that threatened members of the federal j...
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US Senate passes sweeping Russia energy sanctions, next stop US House
The U.S. Senate easily passed sweeping Russia sanctions legislation on Friday, advancing a long-delayed measure backed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham and setting the stage for...
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US judge allows deportation protections to end for South Sudanese
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had allowed hundreds of South Sudane...
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Lawyers for Andrew and Tristan Tate urge US judge to release them from jail
Lawyers for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate urged a U.S. judge on Friday to release the brothers from a Miami jail as they fight the British government's efforts ...
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Levi Strauss reveals cybersecurity breach amid wider wave of attacks
Levi Strauss on Friday disclosed a recent cybersecurity incident in which an unauthorized third party gained access to the company's systems through a social engineering attack t...
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Trump loses 21 straight court battles for state voter rolls as midterms near
Trump has yet to win a single case in federal courts.
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Norway's sovereign fund opposes US plan to scrap company climate reporting
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Friday it does not recommend the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to outright scrap regulations that req...
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Law firm Simpson Thacher wins malpractice trial over stock sale
A Broward County, Florida jury on Thursday found prominent New York-based law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett not liable for an insurance administrator's 2018 collapse.
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Former lawyer at Tom Girardi's firm gets time-served in client funds case
A California attorney who worked with convicted former plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi received a time-served sentence on Thursday in connection with Girardi's failure to pay mill...
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US scrutinizes more schools over admissions practices, diversity and pro-Palestinian protests
President Donald Trump's administration targeted more universities on Thursday over issues like race and diversity in admissions and pro-Palestinian protests, marking the federal ...
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Trump could net big tax windfall in crypto bill divestiture plan, Bloomberg News reports
The bipartisan ethics proposal senators have pitched to President Donald Trump to get landmark crypto legislation over the line in Congress could trigger a significant tax benefi...
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Trump suggests Fauci should be prosecuted
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted, hours after Republican Senator Rand Paulo said that he would ask the Justice Depart...
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