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Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection
Legal Events 02/17/2025Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year.Nikola was a hot start-up and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scanda...
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Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case
Top Stories & Analysis 02/13/2025Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”Spared from jail as part of a plea...
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Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM
Courts and the Judiciary 02/08/2025Two 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 ...
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Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court
Courts and the Judiciary 02/03/2025President 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...
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Elon Musk dodges DOGE scrutiny while expanding his power in Washington
Legal Events 01/28/2025Elon Musk made a clear promise after Donald Trump decided to put him in charge of making the government more efficient.“It’s not going to be some sort of backroom secret thing,” Musk said last year. “It will be as transparent ...
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Trump White House cancels freeze on federal funding, resolving confusion
National News 01/23/2025The budget office under President Donald Trump reversed a memo on Wednesday that had temporarily frozen spending on federal loans and grants, just two days after it caused widespread confusion and legal disputes across the nation.The memo, issued Mon...
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Courts and the Judiciary 01/18/2025Florida 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...
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Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds
Courts and the Judiciary 01/14/2025At a time of heightened political division, Americans’ confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record low of 35% this year, according to a new Gallup poll.The United States saw a sharp drop of 24 percentage p...
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TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech
Top Stories & Analysis 01/10/2025In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United St...
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
Courts and the Judiciary 01/05/2025President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone ...
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Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals
Courts and the Judiciary 01/01/2025A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during the Black man’s trial.The retired football player was sent...
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Small businesses brace themselves for potentially disruptive TikTok ban
National News 12/27/2024A looming TikTok ban could affect the millions of small businesses that use the short-video social media app to help them grow their business.Desiree Hill, owner of Crown’s Corner Mechanic in Conyers, Georgia, started her business solo as a mob...