Recent Updates
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Justice Department steps up pressure on cartels’ financial networks
Headline Legal News 02/05/2026The Justice Department is taking direct aim at the financial lifelines of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, targeting money brokers who prosecutors say have adapted to intensified enforcement by increasingly routing drug profits through crypt...
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Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes
Headline Legal News 01/30/2026With a partial government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats laid out a list of demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement th...
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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion
Headline Legal News 12/05/2025Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two...
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Trump says he’s terminating legal protections for Somali migrants
Headline Legal News 12/01/2025President Donald Trump said Friday night that he’s “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administration has ...
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Longest government shutdown in US history ends after 43 days
Headline Legal News 11/13/2025President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at...
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Dominican appeals court to hear arguments on Franco’s conviction
Headline Legal News 11/10/2025Wander Franco’s attorneys pushed to have the suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop’s sexual-abuse conviction and sentencing overturned Tuesday.Franco in June was convicted of sexually abusing a minor, and he then received a two-year suspende...
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Kamala Harris leaves door open for 2028 presidential run
Headline Legal News 10/27/2025Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House.In an interview with the BBC posted Saturday, Harris said she expects a woman will be president in the coming years, and it could “possibly” be her.“I am not done,...
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Senate rejects competing bills, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1
Headline Legal News 09/17/2025The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the ot...
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Trump tries to blame others as tensions rise around handling of Epstein case
Headline Legal News 07/16/2025President Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, trying to place blame on former government officials.On Tuesday, he accused former...
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ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses
Headline Legal News 06/20/2025Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job.“...
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Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Headline Legal News 05/15/2025The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.It was unclear what such a decision might look like, bu...
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Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
Headline Legal News 05/09/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal...