The Trump administration’s effort to tighten rules governing mail-in ballots has entered a critical phase, with states awaiting clarity on whether a new U.S. Postal Service policy could take effect before the November 3 midterm elections. The administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow enforcement of the rule, even as election officials in …

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Minnesota’s groundbreaking law targeting AI-generated fake nude images will remain in effect after Elon Musk’s xAI failed to persuade a federal court to halt the measure while its constitutional challenge moves forward. A federal judge rejected xAI’s request for a preliminary injunction against the law, which took effect on August 1. The legislation prohibits website …

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The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped in to preserve a federal policy allowing political party committees to access discounted television and radio advertising rates, handing Republican campaign organisations an important victory as the midterm election season intensifies. The court granted an emergency request from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, …

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A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the case against Lindsay Clancy after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict, bringing a closely watched trial over the deaths of her three young children to an abrupt and unresolved end. The proceedings, which lasted nearly six weeks, centred on a devastating question: whether Clancy was legally …

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A major challenge to one of the U.S. government’s most effective anti-fraud tools has been rejected by a federal appeals court, preserving the ability of private whistleblowers to pursue claims on behalf of the United States. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned a 2024 ruling that had cast doubt on the constitutionality …

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Nearly three decades after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on a Las Vegas street, a jury has found former gang figure Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder in one of hip-hop’s most enduring unsolved crimes. The Clark County jury reached its verdict after deliberating for nearly three hours, bringing an end to an …

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The Florida Bar has declined to pursue an ethics complaint against the Department of Homeland Security’s top lawyer over a series of social media posts that singled out federal judges who had ruled against the Trump administration. The complaint, backed by 128 former judges, accused DHS General Counsel James Percival of crossing professional boundaries by …

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