Recent Updates
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Jury begins deliberating in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree
U.S. Court News 05/12/2025Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the case of two men charged with cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree that once stood along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have pleaded not guilty t...
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Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
U.S. Court News 05/06/2025The 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...
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Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders
U.S. Court News 04/26/2025Two major law firms asked separate judges Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were meant to punish them and harm their business operations.The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — say the o...
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Court sides with the FDA in its dispute over sweet-flavored vaping products
U.S. Court News 04/05/2025The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for the Food and Drug Administration in its crackdown on sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use.But the justices’ unanimous decision throwing out a federal appeals ...
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Trump administration says South African ambassador has to leave the US
U.S. Court News 03/16/2025The State Department says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, who was declared “persona non grata” last week, has until Friday to leave the country.After Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that Ambassador Ebrahim ...
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Japan’s trade minister fails to win US assurances on tariff exemptions
U.S. Court News 03/13/2025Japan’s trade minister said this week that he has failed to win assurances from U.S. officials that the key U.S. ally will be exempt from tariffs, some of which take effect on Wednesday.Yoji Muto was in Washington for last ditch negotiations ov...
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180 fired CDC employees received emails asking them to come back to work
U.S. Court News 03/02/2025The nation’s top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices l...
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Lawsuit against abortion accommodations in the workplace can proceed
U.S. Court News 02/28/2025A lawsuit filed by 17 states challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions may proceed, a federal appeals court ruled.The Eighth Circuit Court’s decision on Thursday reverses Eastern District of ...
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Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection
U.S. Court News 02/17/2025Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year.Nikola was a hot start-up and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scanda...
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Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM
U.S. Court News 02/09/2025Two former Albuquerque police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of racketeering, extortion and accepting bribes in a sweeping corruption investigation into a scheme that allegedly allowed people arrested for driving while intoxicated ...
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Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews
U.S. Court News 01/22/2025President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.It was not immediately clear how much assistance woul...
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
U.S. Court News 01/10/2025In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United St...