Court Keeps SEC Case Alive as Musk’s Twitter Disclosure Fight Falls Flat

Court Keeps SEC Case Alive as Musk’s Twitter Disclosure Fight Falls Flat

Elon Musk’s attempt to swat away a U.S. securities case has hit a wall. A federal court in Washington declined to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the billionaire of dragging his feet before revealing a major stake in Twitter back in 2022. The ruling keeps alive claims that the delayed disclosure gave Musk a window to …

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Washington Takes Google Fight to Appeals Court After Judge Spares Breakup

Washington Takes Google Fight to Appeals Court After Judge Spares Breakup

The U.S. government, joined by a coalition of states, is pushing its showdown with Google into the appeals court, refusing to let a pivotal antitrust ruling end on a muted note. Court filings show federal officials are challenging a decision that labeled Google a monopolist in online search—but stopped short of imposing the most severe …

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Purple Vests and Phone Cameras: New York Sets Eyes on Federal Deportation Drives

Purple Vests and Phone Cameras: New York Sets Eyes on Federal Deportation Drives

New York is assembling a quiet but visible presence on its streets: teams of state-trained legal observers, easy to spot in purple vests, tasked with watching and recording federal immigration operations as they unfold. State officials say the observers—volunteers drawn from the attorney general’s office—will not interfere with enforcement activity. Their role is to document …

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Utah Prosecutor Pushes Back on Bias Claims in Charlie Kirk Killing Case

Utah Prosecutor Pushes Back on Bias Claims in Charlie Kirk Killing Case

A senior Utah prosecutor facing calls to step aside from the Charlie Kirk murder case told a judge that grief and proximity did not drive the state’s decision to pursue the death penalty—even though his own daughter was an eyewitness to the shooting. Defense lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of killing the conservative …

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Streaming Giants Under the Microscope as Netflix Boss Fields Senate Fire Over Warner Bros Bid

Streaming Giants Under the Microscope as Netflix Boss Fields Senate Fire Over Warner Bros Bid

Netflix’s push to swallow Warner Bros Discovery landed squarely in the hot seat on Tuesday, with U.S. senators pressing the company’s leadership on whether the proposed mega-deal would shrink competition and reshape Hollywood on Netflix’s terms. At a Senate antitrust hearing, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos appeared alongside Warner Bros’ chief strategy officer Bruce Campbell to …

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Visa Freeze Sparks Court Fight as Rights Groups Challenge U.S. Policy Shift

Visa Freeze Sparks Court Fight as Rights Groups Challenge U.S. Policy Shift

A new legal challenge has landed in federal court after the U.S. State Department halted the processing of immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries, a move that took effect in late January and has already begun to ripple through families and workplaces. Civil rights groups behind the case say the pause tears through long-standing …

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Judge Halts White House Move to Police Congressional Visits to Immigration Detention Sites

Judge Halts White House Move to Police Congressional Visits to Immigration Detention Sites

A federal court has again stepped in to stop the Trump administration from tightening the rules on how members of Congress can inspect immigration detention facilities—this time rejecting an attempt to repackage the same restrictions under a different funding label. In Washington, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled that the Department of Homeland Security cannot …

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Trump Insider Ed Martin Stripped of ‘Weaponization’ Brief, Keeps Pardon Post

Trump Insider Ed Martin Stripped of ‘Weaponization’ Brief, Keeps Pardon Post

Ed Martin, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has been quietly removed from his role overseeing a controversial Justice Department initiative examining alleged political misuse of federal prosecutions, according to a person familiar with the internal shift. Martin is no longer in charge of the department’s so-called Weaponization Working Group, a project launched to …

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Clintons to Face Lawmakers in Epstein Inquiry, Defusing Threat of Contempt Showdown

Clintons to Face Lawmakers in Epstein Inquiry, Defusing Threat of Contempt Showdown

Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before Congress in an investigation tied to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a move that could halt an escalating push to hold the former president and former secretary of state in contempt. Their decision comes just days after the House Oversight Committee signaled it was prepared to …

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Sunrise Wind Gets a Green Light as Court Reverses Federal Halt

Sunrise Wind Gets a Green Light as Court Reverses Federal Halt

Construction crews can head back offshore. A US federal judge has cleared Denmark’s Ørsted to restart work on its Sunrise Wind project off the New York coast, undoing a freeze imposed late last year when the Trump administration abruptly paused several offshore wind developments. The decision, delivered in Washington by District Judge Royce Lambert, reopens …

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