Recent Updates
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California delays revoking 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses until March
Headline Legal News 12/31/2025A week after immigrant groups filed a lawsuit, California said Tuesday it will delay the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses until March to allow more time to ensure that truckers and bus drivers who legally qualify for the licen...
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Trump administration rolls out rural health funding, with strings attached
National News 12/26/2025States will share $10 billion for rural health care next year in a program that aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to rural hospitals, federal officials announced Monday.But while every state applied for money from th...
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Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny
National News 12/22/2025Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind b...
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US announces massive arms sales to Taiwan worth more than $10 billion
National News 12/18/2025President Donald Trump’s administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.The State Department...
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Trump bans travel from 5 more countries, imposes new limits on others
National News 12/15/2025President Donald Trump‘s administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.This move Tuesday is part of ongoing efforts to tighten U.S. entry standards for travel and immigration. The deci...
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Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for $40 billion stablecoin fraud
National News 12/11/2025Onetime cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a $40 billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them th...
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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion
Headline Legal News 12/05/2025Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two...
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Supreme Court meets to weigh Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions
Headline Legal News 12/01/2025The Supreme Court is meeting in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump ’s birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not A...
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Trump says lax migration policies are top national security threat
National News 11/25/2025President Donald Trump said Wednesday’s “heinous assault” on two National Guard members near the White House proves that lax migration policies are “the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.”“...
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S. Carolina lawmakers look at the most restrictive abortion bill in the US
Legal Events 11/17/2025A bill that would allow judges to sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison and could restrict the use of IUDs and in vitro fertilization goes before a small group of South Carolina senators Tuesday.This would be the first of at least a h...
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Longest government shutdown in US history ends after 43 days
Lawyer Interviews 11/14/2025President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at...
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Dominican appeals court to hear arguments on Franco’s conviction
National News 11/09/2025Wander Franco’s attorneys pushed to have the suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop’s sexual-abuse conviction and sentencing overturned Tuesday.Franco in June was convicted of sexually abusing a minor, and he then received a two-year suspende...