Google has finally loosened its grip on the Android kingdom. In a landmark settlement with Fortnite creator Epic Games, the tech giant has agreed to tear down some of the barriers that have long frustrated developers and fueled antitrust battles. Filed in a San Francisco federal court, the proposal marks the possible end of a …
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The U.S. Supreme Court found itself at the center of an economic and constitutional storm as justices from both ideological wings challenged the legality of former President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs—a policy that has reshaped America’s trade posture and stirred global markets. For more than two hours, the court dissected whether a decades-old law …
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a hard line on what he called “unconstitutional and inhumane” conditions at a suburban immigration facility, ordering federal officials to clean up their act—literally. The ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman, came after detainees at the Broadview, Illinois, holding center described squalid cells, filthy toilets, and …
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Eric Tung — a conservative legal mind shaped under the tutelage of Justices Neil Gorsuch and the late Antonin Scalia — to the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, marking President Donald Trump’s first appointment to the San Francisco-based court in his second term. With a 52–45 vote, the …
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has nullified roughly 80,000 non-immigrant visas since taking office in January, part of an expansive clampdown on foreign nationals accused of crimes ranging from minor offenses to serious assaults. A senior State Department official confirmed the numbers, noting that visa revocations have spanned categories such as driving under the influence …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court rarely feels this crowded in the middle of a government shutdown. But on Wednesday morning, the marble chamber buzzed with energy as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick joined a packed gallery to witness the legal fate of Donald Trump’s tariffs play out before nine black-robed …
In a courtroom that has seen its share of political storms, one of Washington’s strangest trials unfolded this week — over a flying sandwich. Sean Dunn, once a Justice Department staffer handling international cases, is accused of launching a sub sandwich at a federal agent during a tense summer marked by then-President Donald Trump’s “law-and-order” …
The once-celebrated crypto prodigy Sam Bankman-Fried faced a wall of skepticism in a Manhattan courtroom as appellate judges grilled his legal team over claims that his fraud trial was fundamentally unfair. Bankman-Fried, now 33 and serving a 25-year sentence, has sought to undo his conviction tied to the 2022 implosion of FTX — an exchange …
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A prominent conservative voice on the federal bench has reignited a long-simmering debate over the legality of America’s most powerful fraud-fighting tool — the False Claims Act — suggesting that it may violate the very Constitution it aims to defend. U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho of the Fifth Circuit, in a sharply worded concurring opinion, …
In a twist of legal irony, a dissenting opinion penned by an Obama-era judge could end up paving the path for Donald Trump’s biggest courtroom win yet — the Supreme Court fight over his sweeping tariff powers. At the heart of the case lies a decades-old law — the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) …
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