Prosecutors wrapped up their direct examination of Cohen on Tuesday. Trump's lawyers will cross examine him this afternoon.
Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube argued that the hundreds of school districts suing them are misusing public nuisance laws.
The “unparalleled” warmth in the Northern Hemisphere exceeded the historical average by more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A part of what made me was the fishing and camping trips into the wildland along Mexico’s coast. But I can’t go back.
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Researchers found that heat waves have caused over 150,000 deaths per warm season, with a surprisingly high rate in colder, higher-income areas.
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Prosecutors say businessman Dennis Mitsunaga used hefty campaign contributions to exert influence over Hawaii's political landscape.
Students across the country on all sides of the Israel and Palestine conflict are taking their colleges to court for violating their First Amendment free speech rights.
After a yearslong fight to keep a map found to have diluted the power of Black voters, Louisiana is now struggling to keep the second majority-Black district it was forced to add.
The court's conservative majority banned drop boxes two years ago. Its new liberal majority seems open to reversing that decision.
The Athletics will play at a minor league stadium in West Sacramento, California, for three years before moving to Las Vegas in 2028.
The appellate panel wondered how arguments that Yasiel Puig's plea deal was binding would fit with other cases where the government itself had argued it wasn't bound by plea agreements before they were accepted by a judge.
For the first time in 14 years, pro-independence Catalan parties failed to win their regional elections. The tide may be turning against the movement to make Catalonia an independent nation.
GOP lawmakers have introduced a resolution to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress, accusing him of withholding records related to special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation.
The action targets a company operating within one mile of an Air Force base that controls nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Former Democratic Congressman John Barrow argues in a lawsuit that Georgia's code of judicial conduct is being wrongly enforced against him in violation of his free speech rights.
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A University of Arizona professor says having an abortion rights referendum on the ballot will help mobilize voters who lean Democrat.
With no tax increases or decreases, both parties made concessions to end the monthslong budget battle.
Kona storms tap into the abundant moisture from the warm tropical waters surrounding Hawaii. The moisture interacts with the islands' topography, resulting in heavy downpours that can drench the region.
The Federal Trade Commission wrote in an amicus brief that a drugmaker's side deals demonstrated that it sought to prevent a generic drug from reaching the market.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims that Meta blocked users on its platforms from sharing or posting a 30-minute ad for the independent presidential candidate.
The Florida resident is the second of three plotters to be sentenced for the March 2022 bombing of the Costa Mesa, California, clinic.
Rulings
A federal court in Texas denied property owners’ request for the court to bar the town of Volente from enforcing its regulations of short-term rentals. The property owners say rules prohibiting outside activities past 10 p.m. violate freedom of assembly rights, but the ordinance “abides by a well-trodden principle in property law: that ‘all property in this country is held under the implied obligation that the owner’s use of it shall not be injurious to the community.’”
A federal court in Texas ruled that Nike may recover some attorney fees after the court dismissed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the company for its use of the term “Ballin.” The person who sued did not act with animus, he just falsely believed he held trademark ownership over the commonly used term. Since Nike easily obtained dismissal, its request for $570,000 in attorney fees is slimmed down to a $25,000 award.
The Seventh Circuit upheld an Illinois federal court’s decision to throw out most of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s claims on behalf of Black nursing home workers who say they worked in a racially hostile working environment. The appellate judges ruled that whatever insensitivity and harassment the employees faced at work, none of it rose to the level of pervasiveness or severity necessary to sustain the lawsuit.
The attorney general of California, Rob Bonta, announced that AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon will pay more than $10 million to the multistate coalition that sued the communications companies for using allegedly misleading advertisements. The settlement awaits approval from the court and will require the companies to hew closer to requirements about “unlimited” data plans, discounts on devices and other marketing terms.
A federal court in Alabama denied residents’ motion for a preliminary injunction related to the civil rights lawsuit they filed against town council members, who have allegedly operated a “hand-me-down governance” system at least since the mid-1960s, where no regular municipal election for the mayor or council have been held. The council members allegedly secretly reappointed themselves to keep residents from electing a majority-Black council. The residents are likely to succeed on their constitutional claim, but have not shown how they will suffer an irreparable harm, as necessary for an injunction.
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Hot Cases
A public library's policy banning new books about sex — and stopping anyone under 17 from accessing current titles about gender and sexuality — violates kids' First Amendment rights, Read Freely Alabama says.
Port of Oakland commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to change the name of Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport — and slapped SFO with a counterclaim in their ongoing trademark dispute.
The Ridge Wallet Company, which sells plastic and metal wallets marketed to millennial and Gen Z men, accuses a company based out of Shenzhen, China, of selling knockoff "Ridge" wallets.
The U.S. Justice Department hit the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with a lawsuit after a prison clerk complained she was barred from wearing a head covering for religious reasons.
More than 250 people say the city of San Diego underfunded and neglected its storm drain system for years, causing their homes to flood on Jan. 22, 2024. They are asking for $100 million in damages.
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