Recent Updates
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Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes
U.S. Court Watch 01/30/2026With a partial government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats laid out a list of demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement th...
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Maduro Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Capture in U.S. Drug Case
U.S. Court Watch 01/08/2026A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from p...
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California delays revoking 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses until March
National Legal News 12/31/2025A week after immigrant groups filed a lawsuit, California said Tuesday it will delay the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses until March to allow more time to ensure that truckers and bus drivers who legally qualify for the licen...
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Trump administration rolls out rural health funding, with strings attached
U.S. Court Watch 12/26/2025States will share $10 billion for rural health care next year in a program that aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to rural hospitals, federal officials announced Monday.But while every state applied for money from th...
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Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny
Legal Compliance 12/22/2025Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind b...
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US announces massive arms sales to Taiwan worth more than $10 billion
U.S. Court Watch 12/18/2025President Donald Trump’s administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.The State Department...
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Trump bans travel from 5 more countries, imposes new limits on others
Legal Compliance 12/15/2025President Donald Trump‘s administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.This move Tuesday is part of ongoing efforts to tighten U.S. entry standards for travel and immigration. The deci...
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Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for $40 billion stablecoin fraud
Legal Compliance 12/11/2025Onetime cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a $40 billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them th...
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Trump says lax migration policies are top national security threat
U.S. Court Watch 11/25/2025President Donald Trump said Wednesday’s “heinous assault” on two National Guard members near the White House proves that lax migration policies are “the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.”“...
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Republican US Rep. Elise Stefanik is running for governor of New York
Legal Compliance 11/07/2025U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a close Republican ally of President Donald Trump, announced Friday that she’s running for governor of New York, a place she depicted in a campaign launch video as being “in ashes” because of lawlessness an...
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Republicans grapple with voter frustration over rising health care premiums
U.S. Court Watch 10/27/2025The first caller on a telephone town hall with Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, leader of the House’s conservative Freedom Caucus, came ready with a question about the Affordable Care Act. Her cousin’s disabled son is at risk of losing the insu...
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Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination
U.S. Court Watch 10/11/2025Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of Un...