The Trump administration has shut the door on one of the most unusual legal fights in recent American political history — by settling Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service through the creation of a massive federal compensation fund aimed at alleged victims of political targeting. Under the agreement announced Monday, the Justice Department …

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Elon Musk’s courtroom offensive against OpenAI ended in defeat Monday after a California federal jury rejected his claims that the company abandoned its founding mission and misled him during its early years. The decision arrived quickly. After a trial stretching nearly three weeks and packed with accusations of betrayal, greed and deception, jurors deliberated for …

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What began as a luxury expedition near Antarctica has now drifted into murky legal waters. Passengers aboard the MV Hondius — the Dutch-operated polar cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak — may find that suing the operator is far more difficult than surviving the voyage itself. The ship, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, carried …

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A federal judge from Michigan has avoided jail time after resolving a drunken-driving case that drew national attention following the release of police body-camera footage from his arrest. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington, who serves in Bay City, was handed six months of probation and directed to pay $1,175 in court-related fees after entering a …

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Former U.S. President Joe Biden is asking a federal court in Washington to stop the public release of audio recordings and transcripts tied to conversations he held with his biographer nearly a decade ago — material that later became part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation. The recordings, captured during discussions for Biden’s …

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The U.S. Justice Department has quietly sharpened its legal defense for demanding access to unredacted state voter rolls, signaling that the federal government is prepared to continue an aggressive election oversight campaign even after a string of courtroom defeats. In a formal opinion issued by the Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, federal lawyers argued that …

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