Recent Updates
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Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada
Court Alerts 02/09/2026President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River, demanding that Canada turn over at least half of the ownership of the bridge and agree to other unspecified demands in his lates...
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Justice Department steps up pressure on cartels’ financial networks
Court Alerts 02/05/2026The Justice Department is taking direct aim at the financial lifelines of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, targeting money brokers who prosecutors say have adapted to intensified enforcement by increasingly routing drug profits through crypt...
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A federal judge is set to hear arguments on Minnesota’s immigration crackdown
Court Alerts 01/17/2026A federal judge will hear arguments Monday on whether she should at least temporarily halt the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that has led to the fatal shootings of two people by government officers.The state of Minnesota and the cities of Minnea...
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Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok
Court Alerts 01/13/2026Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit an...
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Maduro Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Capture in U.S. Drug Case
Court Alerts 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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Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad
Court Alerts 01/04/2026Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, state media reported Wednesday.The official IRNA news agency identified the man as Ali Ardestani, saying he relayed sensitive information to Mossad officers in return for financial re...
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Former Honduras President Hernández freed after Trump pardon
Court Alerts 12/03/2025Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from Presid...
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Supreme Court meets to weigh Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions
Court Alerts 12/01/2025The Supreme Court is meeting in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump ’s birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not A...
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Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC
Court Alerts 11/28/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital.U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeo...
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Kimberly-Clark buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in $48.7 billion deal
Court Alerts 11/01/2025Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion, creating a massive consumer health goods company.Shareholders of Kimberly-Clark will own about 54% of the combined company. Kenvue shareholders will own...
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Man pleads not guilty to sparking deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles
Court Alerts 10/22/2025A 29-year-old man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges.Jonathan Rinderknecht appeared in federal court Thursday afternoon after arri...
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‘No Kings’ protests against Trump bring a street party vibe to cities
Court Alerts 10/15/2025Large crowds of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the U.S. Saturday for “ No Kings ” demonstrations decrying what participants see as the government’s swift drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.Peop...