Recent Updates
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Trump administration rolls out rural health funding, with strings attached
Headline News 12/17/2025States 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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The BBC, Both Beloved and Maligned, Faces a $10 Billion Trump Lawsuit
Headline News 12/12/2025U.S. President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a television documentary he claims was “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious.”Britain’s national broadcaster has apologized to Trump ...
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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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Court official dismisses Justice Department’s misconduct complaint
Business Law 11/25/2025A court official has dismissed a Justice Department complaint that accused a federal judge of “hostile and egregious” misconduct during hearings for a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops serving in...
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UAB football player accused of stabbing 2 teammates before game
Bankruptcy 11/21/2025A University of Alabama at Birmingham football player stabbed two teammates Saturday morning hours before the team’s game against the University of South Florida, the university said in a statement.The two wounded players were in stable conditi...
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S. Carolina lawmakers look at the most restrictive abortion bill in the US
Legal World 11/18/2025A bill that would allow judges to sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison and could restrict the use of IUDs and in vitro fertilization goes before a small group of South Carolina senators Tuesday.This would be the first of at least a h...
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Longest government shutdown in US history ends after 43 days
Latest News 11/13/2025President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at...
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California voters take up Prop 50, a Democratic push for more US House seats
Legal Analysis 11/04/2025The national battle to control the U.S. House shifts to California on Tuesday as voters consider a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts and blunt President Donald Trump’s moves to safeguard his party’s...
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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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Kamala Harris leaves door open for 2028 presidential run
Lawyer Blogs 10/27/2025Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House.In an interview with the BBC posted Saturday, Harris said she expects a woman will be president in the coming years, and it could “possibly” be her.“I am not done,...