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A federal judge in Boston has temporarily stopped the Trump administration from withdrawing work authorization from tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants covered by the United States’ Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programme. US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton issued the order after immigrant rights organisations and labour unions challenged a series of policies introduced …

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Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, one of the most powerful figures in Mexico’s drug trade, has been sentenced to life in prison in the United States after admitting to running a massive cocaine trafficking operation for decades. The 76-year-old former Sinaloa Cartel leader pleaded guilty in August 2025 to racketeering conspiracy and continuing criminal enterprise charges. …

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A federal appeals court has stripped class-action status from a lawsuit accusing Boeing of misleading investors about its safety culture before a door-plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 sent the company’s shares tumbling. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that shareholders had failed to establish a workable method for calculating …

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Meta Platforms is facing a fresh legal challenge in Tennessee, where the state alleges that Instagram was deliberately designed to keep teenagers hooked and that the company concealed evidence about the platform’s potential impact on young users. Jury selection began Monday in Nashville for a trial expected to run for seven weeks. Tennessee is seeking …

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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened another investigation into Harvard University, this time examining whether certain financial aid programmes linked to China-based funding discriminate against American students. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said it had launched a compliance review to determine whether Harvard’s financial aid practices exclude U.S. citizens based on the way the …

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Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery has been temporarily put on hold after a federal judge ruled that the transaction cannot move forward until at least August 3. The decision came after California and 11 other states challenged the merger, warning that the combined company could wield excessive influence over the …

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A US federal judge has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books without permission in the development of its Claude chatbot. The settlement, approved in San Francisco, is considered the largest known payout in a US copyright case. The ruling also clears …

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A federal appeals court has temporarily allowed the Pentagon to continue requiring journalists to be accompanied by government escorts inside the building, handing the Trump administration a victory in a legal battle over press access. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned a lower-court ruling that had blocked …

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Ken Kies, one of the administration’s most senior tax officials, is expected to leave his position after resisting White House pressure over taxpayer audits, according to people familiar with the matter. Kies, who serves as acting chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and as an assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, reportedly told administration …

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Twenty U.S. states, including California and New York, have thrown their support behind the District of Columbia’s authority to discipline former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, urging a federal court to reject the Trump administration’s challenge to the proceedings. The administration filed a lawsuit in May seeking to halt efforts by Washington’s attorney-discipline authorities to …

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