The White House has removed its Tetris-style “Build the Wall” game from its website days after The Tetris Company said it had never authorized the game and was reviewing possible copyright concerns.The immigration-themed game launched Sept. 3 as part of a White House online arcade promoting President Donald Trump’s policies.... Read More »
Kim Zolciak’s 15-year-old son, Kroy “KJ” Biermann Jr., is asking a Georgia judge to move his seven-felony sexual assault case into juvenile court, a decision that could determine whether he remains exposed to an adult prison sentence of at least 25 years if convicted on some of the most serious... Read More »
Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in federal custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where prosecutors are seeking to bring the brothers back to face 59 charges involving seven alleged victims.U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis denied their request for release Wednesday, September 9, finding that the brothers... Read More »
A federal jury in Los Angeles began deliberating Wednesday in Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial after prosecutors accused the Chicago rapper of financing a deadly revenge plot and his attorneys argued the government built its case around cooperating witnesses seeking lighter sentences.Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, has pleaded not... Read More »
The American Bar Association’s law school accrediting arm has scrapped its diversity and inclusion requirement as the Trump administration weighs whether to end its federal recognition as the nation’s law school accreditor.The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted 10 to 6 on... Read More »
A former Colorado DNA analyst was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for manipulating forensic evidence, misconduct that has forced authorities to review more than 1,000 criminal cases and has already reached the Colorado Supreme Court.Yvonne “Missy” Woods, 66, spent nearly three decades as a forensic scientist with the... Read More »
Paramount Skydance says California Attorney General Rob Bonta contradicted his own legal position in television interviews as the company seeks a $1.88 billion bond in the fight over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.In a court filing Tuesday, Paramount pointed to interviews in which Bonta described the companies’... Read More »
The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ended without a verdict after seven days of deliberations, even though three jurors now say 11 members of the panel believed she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.For families and observers who followed the case closely, that outcome can feel difficult... Read More »
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service broke federal law when it shared more than 47,000 taxpayer records with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a Trump administration data-sharing system.The unanimous U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld an order blocking the IRS... Read More »
President Donald Trump has escalated the U.S. trade fight with Canada beyond tariffs, ordering outright bans on imports of certain Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles beginning September 29.The move raises a legal question that became more important after the Supreme Court curtailed Trump’s tariff authority earlier this year. If... Read More »
About 8,200 Michigan residents received enhanced driver's licenses or state IDs bearing the same unfamiliar man's face and a generic birth date after a vendor printing error affected thousands of government-issued credentials.The Michigan Department of State said the error involved a batch of enhanced licenses and IDs printed Aug. 26... Read More »
President Donald Trump gave Natalie Harp and two other White House aides $45,000 each in personal cash gifts, according to newly released financial disclosures, drawing scrutiny under a federal law that restricts private payments to government employees for their official work.Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin and White House aide Chamberlain... Read More »
A new documentary about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is renewing interest in one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched criminal fraud cases more than three years after she reported to federal prison.You Can See Everything, a nearly three-hour film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, made a surprise... Read More »
President Donald Trump says Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier will no longer be allowed to sell jets in the United States unless it moves production to the country, raising a new legal question in the expanding U.S.-Canada trade dispute: Can a president simply ban a foreign company’s aircraft from the American... Read More »
Newly released 9/11 records show New York City officials were discussing toxic exposure, health risks and potential legal claims within weeks of the attacks as residents, workers and students returned to Lower Manhattan.Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that more than 170,000 pages of September 11 records are being made public,... Read More »
