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Euroconsumers, comprised of five European consumer rights organizations, is coordinating a third class-action lawsuit against Apple, Inc., it announced Monday. The lawsuit, filed by Italian watchdog group Altroconsumo, is about planned obsolescence in iPhone technology. The suit “seeks compensation of at least €60 on average for owners of iPhone 6,... Read More »

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

After his first week in office, some of Biden's executive orders are being met with harsh criticism. The largest GOP state in the nation has gone a step further in showing its opposition by being the first state to file a major lawsuit against President Biden. The lawsuit came after... Read More »

President Joe Biden answers questions from reporters in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Washington. [AP Photo | Evan Vucci]

An executive order signed within the first 24 hours of the President Biden administration rescinded former-President Trump’s “discriminatory ban” on entry into the United States, effectively canceling one executive order and three presidential proclamations issued by the previous administration. The new order requires the departments of State and Homeland Security... Read More »

Chinese company Xiaomi Inc., founded in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing, is one of the largest smartphone maker in the world.

On January 14, 2021, the Department of Defense announced the addition of nine names to an ongoing list of “‘Communist Chinese military companies’” operating directly or indirectly in the United States.” These are companies that are known to be or are suspected of working with the Chinese military, often under... Read More »

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to COVID-19 and new emerging variants, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

As projections of coronavirus skyrocket to 500,000-plus, President Joe Biden issued a series of executive orders designed to curtail the pandemic as much as presidential authority will allow without congressional action. Before signing the orders, the president spoke some bitter truths to his nation of constituents, stating, “Things are going... Read More »

Jeff Zients

Within just hours of Joseph R. Biden Jr. taking the oath of office as the 46th President of the United States, the president signed into law by Executive Order measures to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control. The Executive Order (EO) entitled: “Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government to... Read More »

A person holds up a sign that reads "No Muslim Ban" during an anti-Muslim ban rally

The Biden administration has wasted no time tackling the thorny issue of illegal immigrants in our nation. In a memorandum from Homeland Security, the administration outlined several components in the way immigration enforcement will be handled when it comes to the deportation of illegal immigrants. The memorandum states in part,... Read More »

Miami Heat forward Moe Harkless, left, attempts to steal the ball from New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson

A contentious legal battle appears to be coming to an end for Zion Williamson after a court ruled in his favor regarding a $100 million lawsuit. A federal judge in North Carolina has ruled in favor of Zion Williamson with a partial judgment after a marketing agent sued the basketball... Read More »

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions

A report from the Justice Department’s inspector general released Thursday, January 7, 2021, showed that top DOJ officials knew that their policy of arresting all illegally-border-crossing adults would result in separation of migrant families, but they went ahead with the policy anyway. The report noted, “We concluded that the Department’s... Read More »

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, right, listen as President Joe Biden speaks before signing an Executive Order reversing the Trump era ban on transgender individuals serving in military, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Stressing diversity and inclusivity, President Biden reversed the Trump administration’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. “It is my conviction as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces,” he said, “that gender identity should not be a bar to military service,” and he asked his new Secretary of... Read More »

Protesters hold signs at a rally about the 2020 census in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019.

President Trump created a policy that altered the census count by excluding unauthorized immigrants. President Biden, in one of his first executive actions, reversed that policy. The change allows the U.S. census to follow more than two centuries of precedent in determining representation in the Electoral College and in Congress.... Read More »

President Joe Biden departs after attending mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

President Biden quickly got to work on his first day in office by signing a slew of executive orders. Some of them were new while others worked to reverse policies put in place by President Trump. One such executive order tackles the mounting student loan crisis in the nation. During... Read More »

The White House lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court's opinion legalizing gay marriage in all fifty states on June 26, 2015 (Shutterstock via HRC.org)

Day One: Newly minted President Joe Biden signed seventeen executive orders within about five hours of being sworn into the land's highest office. Signed on day one was his order ‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.’ With decades of experience and education rooted... Read More »

President Joe Biden

As part of his determination to begin a sustained effort to safeguard the nation’s air and water, combat climate change at home and abroad, and protect endangered species, President Biden returned the U.S. to the Paris climate accord in his first moments in the Oval Office. He said, “I thought... Read More »

Demonstrators against the Keystone XL pipeline march in Lincoln, Nebraska

President Biden issued executive orders on his first day in office aimed at minimizing climate change and protecting human health and the environment. Not coincidentally, he reversed multiple Trump initiatives and restored or expanded some Obama initiatives. His mandates, set forth in an executive order, will require multi-month reviews of... Read More »