Recent Updates
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Man accused of stalking Caitlin Clark proclaims himself ‘guilty as charged’
US Legal News 01/23/2025One day after Michael Thomas Lewis was charged with felony stalking of Indiana Fever star and WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark, the 55-year-old Texas man shouted “guilty as charged” as soon as he sat down in a courtroom Tuesday.Lewis...
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
US Legal News 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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Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers
US Legal News 01/06/2025Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oak...
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Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on US-Mexico border
US Legal News 11/28/2024A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass, which has become the center of the state’s aggressive measures to curb migrant cro...
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New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports
US Legal News 11/23/2024Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes insisted at a federal court hearing Thursday that they didn’t set out to harass or otherwi...
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
US Legal News 11/19/2024The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaz...
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Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump’s 2020 election case after his presidential win
US Legal News 11/08/2024The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines Friday while prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the Republican’s presidential vi...
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VA asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations
US Legal News 10/27/2024Virginia on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.The request comes after a federal appeals court on Sunday unanimously upheld a federal judg...
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case
US Legal News 10/18/2024The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...
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Georgia Supreme Court restores near-ban on abortions while state appeals
US Legal News 10/04/2024The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday halted a ruling striking down the state’s near-ban on abortions while it considers the state’s appeal.The high court’s order came a week after a judge found that Georgia unconstitutionally prohibi...
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New rules regarding election certification in Georgia to get test in court
US Legal News 09/30/2024Two controversial new rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board concerning the certification of vote tallies are set to face their first test in court this week.The Republican majority on the State Election Board — made up of three m...
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Former Singaporean minister pleads guilty to receiving illegal gifts
US Legal News 09/24/2024A former Singaporean cabinet minister pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts Tuesday, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century.Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran pleaded guilty to on...