The top federal prosecutor in Nevada has set Washington buzzing after documents revealed she pressed the FBI to pursue long-debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election—claims she hoped would tilt future congressional races and place Democrats under investigation. Sigal Chattah, sworn in this spring as Nevada’s Interim U.S. Attorney, told senior Justice …

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The courtroom spotlight is once again fixed on Sean “Diddy” Combs. Federal prosecutors have asked a Manhattan judge to hand the 55-year-old music mogul more than 11 years behind bars, plus a $500,000 fine, after his conviction on prostitution-related charges. In July, a jury found Combs guilty on two counts of transporting men across state …

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A federal court in Washington has thrown the brakes on the Trump administration’s plan to cut loose more than 500 employees from Voice of America’s parent agency, warning officials that their conduct showed a troubling disregard for judicial authority. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA, had …

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A legal storm is brewing in Delaware’s federal court, where Factor Bioscience has taken aim at Cellectis and pharmaceutical heavyweight AstraZeneca. At the heart of the fight: who owns the cutting edge of gene-editing technology that could transform cancer treatment. Factor claims its pioneering work with messenger RNA and protein-based TALENs—tools designed to reprogram cells …

Biotech Showdown: Factor Bioscience Accuses AstraZeneca and Cellectis of Hijacking Gene-Editing Breakthroughs Read More »

The fate of TikTok’s U.S. operations is heading for another round of political theater. The powerful chair of the House Select Committee on China has pledged to keep a tight grip on oversight as ByteDance moves to shed its American arm under the rules of a 2024 law signed by Donald Trump. Representative John Moolenaar …

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The Colorado Supreme Court’s historic 2023 decision to bar Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot unleashed not just a political firestorm—but a wave of threats that spilled into the private lives of the justices who signed it. Chief Justice Monica Márquez revealed this week that she and her colleagues endured a campaign of …

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The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has jolted Washington, not just for its legal stakes but for what it signals—a presidency willing to wield prosecution as a weapon against political foes. Comey, accused of making false statements and obstructing a congressional inquiry, was once the man who launched the Russia investigation into Trump’s …

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The standoff between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has reached the nation’s highest court, with the White House insisting that his attempt to fire her falls squarely within presidential authority. In a filing to the Supreme Court, Solicitor General John Sauer argued that Congress, when writing the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, …

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The U.S. Supreme Court has once again thrown its weight behind Donald Trump, greenlighting his administration’s move to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid that Congress had already signed off for the current fiscal year. At the heart of the clash is a fundamental question: how much power does a president really have to sidestep …

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