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Mexico says it will impose retaliatory tariffs on US with details coming Sunday
U.S. Court News 03/06/2025Mexico’s president said Tuesday the country will respond to the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States with retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, with details to come.Mexico will announce the targeted products and other measures Sunday at an eve...
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Trump signs order designating English as the official language of the US
Legal Events 03/01/2025President Donald Trump signed on Saturday an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.The order allows government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer ...
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Lawsuit against abortion accommodations in the workplace can proceed
U.S. Court News 02/27/2025A lawsuit filed by 17 states challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions may proceed, a federal appeals court ruled.The Eighth Circuit Court’s decision on Thursday reverses Eastern District of ...
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Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come
U.S. Court News 02/23/2025Defense 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...
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Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week
Headline Legal News 02/20/2025Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, sparking confusion across key agencies as billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the size of federal ...
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Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection
Recent Cases 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
U.S. Law Review 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
Legal Events 02/09/2025Two 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
Legal Events 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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A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order
U.S. Court News 01/27/2025A 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...
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Pakistani court sentences 4 people to death for blasphemy
Legal Compliance 01/23/2025A Pakistani court Saturday sentenced four people to death for blasphemy, allegedly because they posted sacrilegious material on social media about Islamic religious figures and the Quran. Their lawyer said appeal preparations are underway.Under the c...
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Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
U.S. Court News 01/22/2025President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.It was not immediately clear how much assistance woul...