The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs took another turn as a former personal assistant stepped into the witness box and peeled back the velvet curtain on what prosecutors allege was a multimillion-dollar empire powered by sex, drugs, and coercion. Brendan Paul, who worked closely with Combs from late 2022 until early 2024, told a New …

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In a sharp legal rebuke, a federal judge has shut down a Trump administration maneuver that sought to make transportation dollars contingent on states’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The case, brought by 20 Democratic-led states, targeted an April directive from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Under that directive, states risked losing billions in infrastructure funds …

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The courtroom in White Plains, New York, was quiet, but the weight of a nation’s anguish sat heavy in the air. Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical giant synonymous with OxyContin and the opioid epidemic, now stands on the brink of a $7.4 billion reckoning. After years of bitter litigation, a federal judge has greenlit the next …

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The legal tug-of-war between the federal and state governments took a dramatic turn as a U.S. appeals court handed Donald Trump a temporary win, allowing him to retain control of California’s National Guard amid a storm of political backlash and courtroom wrangling. At the center of this legal storm: 4,000 National Guard troops deployed to …

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The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown open the courthouse doors for oil and fuel companies to take on California’s aggressive push toward electric vehicles and cleaner air. In a 7-2 decision, the court revived a lawsuit that had been dismissed by a lower bench, siding with fuel producers who argued that California’s emissions rules—approved under …

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In the quiet Louisiana town of Jena, the steel gates of a detention center swung open Friday evening, and Mahmoud Khalil walked out — keffiyeh wrapped, fist raised, defiant. After 104 days behind bars, the Columbia University graduate and prominent pro-Palestinian activist emerged free, after a federal judge slammed the government’s attempt to silence political …

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A Utah-based health company has tossed a legal grenade at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, accusing it of flexing muscles it doesn’t have when it comes to regulating what companies can say about their products. Xlear Inc., a manufacturer of saline nasal sprays and other hygiene items stocked on American drugstore shelves, filed suit this …

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A federal judge has slammed the brakes on an aggressive move by the Trump administration that sought to fuse immigration enforcement with state-level transportation dollars. In a sharp rebuke delivered from the bench in Rhode Island, Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell ruled that the Department of Transportation had overstepped its legal bounds by threatening …

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Chad Meredith is back in the judicial spotlight—this time with Donald Trump pulling the strings. The former Kentucky solicitor general, once considered and then discarded by both Trump and later President Joe Biden, is now being tapped again for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Trump made the …

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A federal judge just yanked the steering wheel away from Donald Trump’s latest maneuver to pressure states into backing his immigration crackdown—by threatening their highway money. The plan? Strip transportation grants from 20 Democrat-led states unless they pledged allegiance to federal immigration enforcement. The result? A judicial roadblock. Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell, ruling …

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