Courts & Law
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Vance unveils sweeping visa crackdown, ends PERM for Microsoft
The vice president highlighted the lower average wages of imported foreign workers in the university system than American graduate students, saying the schools were using them to undercut wages for graduate students.
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Maduro faces more charges including alleged torture, according to new, unsealed federal indictment
Maduro had already been charged with participating in a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S.
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Trump suggests FBI may investigate death of black teen Nolan Wells
Wells was 18 at the time of his death.
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Trump returns to NY court for second day, argues legal experts say 'hush money' was 'legal' expense
Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to a porn star during closing days of 2016 presidential election
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Judge Merchan declines to let Trump attend SCOTUS presidential immunity arguments
Trump had sought permission not to attend the New York proceedings on that day as well as that of his son Barron's high school graduation.
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Heavily Jewish school district hides emails on censoring students for Holocaust Remembrance Day
New Trier known for mandatory racial workshops on MLK Day. Anti-Israel activism heats up with shutdown of Golden Gate Bridge and, nearby, UC Berkeley law students claiming First Amendment right to take over dean's dinner party.
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Rudy Giuliani loses bid to dismiss $148 million judgment in Georgia election worker case
Giuliani was ordered to pay the $148 defamation verdict to two election workers in December, after falsely claiming they participated in election fraud during the 2020 election.
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Judge Merchan rejects second Trump recusal bid as trial starts in DA Bragg case
Merchan dismissed Trump's first bid for recusal in August of last year, which Trump had also brought over Loren Merchan's employment.
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Supreme Court lets Idaho enforce its ban on gender treatments for minors
State Attorney General Raúl Labrador had asked the court to narrow an injunction from a lower court that had kept the ban blocked.
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Gun supervisor on 'Rust' set gets 18 month in connection with fatal shooting involving Alec Baldwin
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, a so-called movie "armorer," was sentenced in a New Mexico state court.
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Supreme Court allows injured police officer's case against Black Lives Matter activist to proceed
In 2020, the justices, in an unsigned decision, called the First Amendment issue “undeniably important” but returned it to the Louisiana court system
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Justice Thomas absent from Supreme Court's Monday session without explanation
Chief Justice John Roberts announced Thomas’ absence and said the he would still participate in the day’s cases, based on the briefs and transcripts of the arguments.
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Harvard seeks to dismiss antisemitism lawsuit filed by six Jewish students
Harvard claimed that the students