The battle over the future of the Education Department’s civil rights office took another sharp turn this week, as a federal appeals court opened the door for the Trump administration to move forward with sweeping layoffs. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston temporarily suspended an injunction that had …

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The clash between federal power and state defiance has flared again—this time in Minnesota. The U.S. Justice Department has launched a lawsuit against the state, accusing its leaders of shielding undocumented immigrants from federal authorities in violation of national law. At the center of the dispute are Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Hennepin County, which the …

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A bruising legal standoff over attorney fees tied to Columbia University’s massive sex abuse settlements has ended not with a bang but a quiet retreat. New York’s Wigdor law firm and plaintiffs’ lawyer Anthony DiPietro agreed to permanently halt their court battle, which had been simmering since last year. Court papers filed earlier this month …

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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 …

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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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