A courtroom in Boston turned into a sharp examination of federal power on Wednesday as a U.S. judge openly questioned whether the Trump administration can simply pull the plug on billions in federal grants whenever political priorities change in Washington. At the center of the dispute is a little-known budget rule the administration says gives …

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The Trump administration has opened a new legal front in America’s gun-rights battle, filing suit against Colorado over its long-standing restriction on firearm magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds. The challenge, launched by the U.S. Department of Justice, seeks to dismantle a law Colorado enacted in 2013 after the mass shooting inside an …

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Apple’s long-running courtroom war with Epic Games hit another wall on Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to temporarily halt a ruling that found the tech giant in contempt over its handling of App Store payment rules. The decision keeps Apple on a collision course with a federal judge in California who has been …

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A federal courtroom in Oakland turned into a window into OpenAI’s turbulent inner workings this week, as former chief technology officer Mira Murati described a leadership culture she said was marked by confusion, mistrust and competing narratives under CEO Sam Altman. Murati, appearing through recorded testimony in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, told the court …

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A federal court in Georgia has handed the Trump administration a significant procedural victory by allowing the Justice Department to retain hundreds of boxes of 2020 election ballots seized earlier this year from Fulton County’s election facility. The ruling came from U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee, who declined to order the return of the records …

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A sprawling insider trading operation allegedly fuelled by confidential merger documents stolen from elite law firms has triggered one of the largest securities fraud crackdowns in recent years in the United States. Federal prosecutors in Boston say the network ran quietly for nearly a decade, drawing in lawyers, traders and intermediaries who allegedly turned privileged …

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California’s top court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to open the door to a sweeping new legal obligation that could force pharmaceutical companies to continuously pursue “better” versions of already approved medicines. At the center of the dispute is biotechnology giant Gilead Sciences, now facing claims from nearly 24,000 HIV patients who argue the company intentionally …

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