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  •  Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes

    Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes

    Headline Legal News 03/21/2025

    Under threat from the Trump administration, Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.The changes,...

  •  Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts

    Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts

    Headline Legal News 03/17/2025

    As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans.From layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Pentag...

  • Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

    Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

    Headline Legal News 03/07/2025

    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.By a 5-4 vote, the court’s co...

  • 180 fired CDC employees received emails asking them to come back to work

    180 fired CDC employees received emails asking them to come back to work

    Headline Legal News 03/04/2025

    The nation’s top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices l...

  • Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come

    Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come

    Headline Legal News 02/23/2025

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists President Donald Trump ’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is op...

  • Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM

    Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM

    Headline Legal News 02/08/2025

    Two former Albuquerque police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of racketeering, extortion and accepting bribes in a sweeping corruption investigation into a scheme that allegedly allowed people arrested for driving while intoxicated ...

  • Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

    Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

    Headline Legal News 02/03/2025

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest wa...

  • A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    Headline Legal News 01/27/2025

    A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first h...

  • Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

    Headline Legal News 01/18/2025

    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...

  • Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber

    Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber

    Headline Legal News 11/12/2024

    Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.In a rematch from 2022, ...

  • FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

    FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

    Headline Legal News 11/02/2024

    The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican p...

  • Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’

    Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’

    Headline Legal News 10/12/2024

    Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday that Gov. Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years appeared to be “extreme” and “crazy” ...

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