Courts & Law
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Christa Pike suffered from pneumonia, blood clot in arm after botched execution, lawyers say
Pike's attorneys said they were told that their client was brain-dead on Monday but that by Tuesday she was awake and talking to her medical team, though she was confused and disoriented at first.
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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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Lawfare comes up short as two high-profile conservatives see cases dropped
Both sides of the aisle celebrated the legal developments and insisted they would move forward undeterred by the accusations.
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Judge issues gag order on Trump in DA Bragg case
Bragg has charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a 2016 payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.
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Ex-Herschel Walker staffer drops battery, defamation suit against Matt Schlapp
"Neither the Schlapps nor the ACU paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them," he stated.
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UK court delays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to US on espionage charges
Assange is wanted on spy charges in the U.S.
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NYC City Council appeals to save its non-citizen voting law
The city passed the law in 2021, which could render as many as 800,000 people eligible to vote.
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Judge dismisses X lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a non-profit organization that documented an increase in "hate speech" since Elon Musk purchased the platform.
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Washington state violated court order by forcing foster parents to 'affirm' gender ID: lawsuit
Detransitioners tell 9th Circuit as it hears challenge to Oregon policy that so-called gender affirming care caused "physical harm" and "did not resolve their mental health issues or gender dysphoria."
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An 'unreasonable bond' and a 'victimless crime?' Trump gears up for appeal of civil fraud ruling
Former President Trump got a break on Monday when a New York appeals court reduced the bond in his civil fraud trial from $464 million to a more manageable $175 million.
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Bond in Trump's civil fraud case reduced to $175M from $464M
Trump had been order previously to pay a nearly half-a-million dollar bond to the court for the judgement against him.
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Trump decries 'witch hunt' as he appears in NY court for hush money case
Donald Trump appears in court once again, this time in the hush money case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney.