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New Orleans mayor pleads not guilty on corruption charges tied to alleged affair
Top Stories & Analysis 09/12/2025New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, fraud and obstruction charges stemming from an alleged romantic relationship with her bodyguard.The Democrat appeared in federal court for the first time since a grand jury...
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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books
Supreme Court News 09/08/2025Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as s...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly take up tariffs case and reverse ruling
Supreme Court News 09/04/2025The Trump administration took the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule quickly that the president has the power to impose sweeping import taxes under federal law.The government called on the court to rever...
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Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court faces critical test of independence
Courts and the Judiciary 09/01/2025Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court will be seated Monday and observers will be watching closely to see whether it will assert its independence from the governing party that held the country’s first judicial elections.Just three of its n...
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US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes
Law Journals 08/27/2025Immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle’s King County International Airport to witness deportation flights and spread word of where they are going and how many people are aboard. Until recently, they could keep track of the ...
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Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections
Top Stories & Analysis 08/23/2025The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting...
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Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
Top Stories & 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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Trump administration asks court to lift restrictions on California immigration stops
Courts and the Judiciary 08/08/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to halt a court order restricting immigration stops that swept up at least two U.S. citizens in Southern California.The emergency petition comes after an appeals court refused to lift a tem...
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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s detention center
Supreme Court News 08/04/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates e...
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Victims feeling exhausted and anxious about wrangling over Epstein files
Courts and the Judiciary 07/31/2025Women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein are feeling skeptical and anxious about the Justice Department’s handling of records related to the convicted sex offender, with some backing more public disclosures as an overdue measure of tra...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
Courts and the Judiciary 07/23/2025A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadersh...
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Trump tries to blame others as tensions rise around handling of Epstein case
Courts and the Judiciary 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...