Recent Updates
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Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote
Family Law 12/06/2024A 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...
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Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care
Legal Business News 12/02/2024Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people.The justices on Wednesday are taking up...
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More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars seized at Los Angeles port
Criminal Law 11/28/2024More than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport, authorities said.Had the guitars been authentic, they would have been worth $18 million, U....
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New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports
Civil Rights 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
Legal Business News 11/20/2024The 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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South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
Court Watch 11/15/2024South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign.If...
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Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber
Criminal Law 11/11/2024Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.In a rematch from 2022, ...
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High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat
Legal Outlook 11/08/2024The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome.The court made its refusal to ta...
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Giuliani says he's a victim of 'political persecution' as he's told again to give up assets
Corporate Governance 11/06/2024A defiant Rudy Giuliani was ordered Thursday to quickly turn over prized assets including a car and a watch given to him by his grandfather as part of a $148 million defamation judgment, leading the former New York City mayor to emerge from court say...
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Trump rebuilds Democrats’ ‘blue wall’ states with red bricks. Especially Pennsylvania
Legal Business 11/04/2024Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania this week, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot,...
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FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
Legal Outlook 11/01/2024The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican p...
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Biden administration races to shell out billions for clean energy as election nears
Bankruptcy Law 10/22/2024The Biden administration is shelling out billions of dollars for clean energy and approving major offshore wind projects as officials race to secure major climate initiatives before President Joe Biden’s term comes to an end.Biden wants to esta...