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  • Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal

    Ex-UK lawmaker charged with cheating in election betting scandal

    Headline Legal News 04/11/2025

    A former Conservative lawmaker and 14 others have been charged with cheating when placing bets on the timing of Britain’s general election last year, the Gambling Commission said Monday.Craig Williams was one of several people who had been inve...

  •  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...

  • Austria’s new government is stopping family reunions immediately for migrants

    Austria’s new government is stopping family reunions immediately for migrants

    Headline Legal News 03/12/2025

    The new Austrian government said Wednesday that family reunion procedures for migrants will be immediately halted because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately.The measure is temporary and intended to ensure that those migrants...

  • Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

    Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

    Headline Legal News 02/21/2025

    Hundreds 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 ...

  • Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Headline Legal News 02/13/2025

    Steve 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...

  • 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...

  • Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it ‘despicable’

    Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it ‘despicable’

    Headline Legal News 01/09/2025

    President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.With Trump appearing by video from his Florida ...

  • Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Headline Legal News 01/01/2025

    A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said.The decision puts back on track...

  • Small businesses brace themselves for potentially disruptive TikTok ban

    Small businesses brace themselves for potentially disruptive TikTok ban

    Headline Legal News 12/26/2024

    A 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...

  • Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    Headline Legal News 12/21/2024

    Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.The Teamsters say the workers, who authorized strikes in the past few days, a...

  • Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance

    Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance

    Headline Legal News 12/13/2024

    The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dis...

  • Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote

    Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote

    Headline Legal News 12/06/2024

    A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.The Constitutional Co...