When Trump's attorneys suggested Daniels has "a lot of experience making phony stories about sex," the ex-adult film star clapped back: "The sex in those films is very real, just like what happened in that room.”
In a significant shift, the appellate court ruled that a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court means that convicted felons can't automatically be deprived of their right to bear arms.
A crowd of 230,000 onlookers welcomed the Olympic flame, which now starts a two-and-a-half month tour through France ahead of the Olympic Games in July and August.
The bipartisan measure is aimed at giving workers who report age discrimination their day in court, barring companies from resolving such disputes using third-party arbitrators.
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Another MP defection from Conservative to Labour is salt in the wound for embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, though many Labour MPs aren’t happy about the move either.
The small Swedish host to the continental song contest Eurovision warmed up to its second semifinals with both a large number of excited music contest fans and protesters decrying Israel’s participation in Thursday’s show.
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Courts & the Law
The longstanding Senate tradition allowing home state senators to weigh in on the White House’s judicial picks has remained restricted to U.S. district court nominees — thanks to deepening political divisions in Washington.
A new law in Iowa makes it a state crime for noncitizens to reenter the United States after being removed. Violators could face deportation or up to 10 years in prison.
Supporters of the change said the fixed-rate fee brings California utilities into line with many utilities in other states.
A class of consumers says deceptive marketing duped them into buying Duramax diesel trucks, which emitted higher amounts of pollutants than their gas-burning counterparts.
In a June 2023 complaint, more than a dozen former baseball scouts named 30 baseball teams that they said blacklisted players due to their age.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to throw out Biden's federal firearms charges, writing in their ruling that they could not consider Biden's appeals until a final judgment is reached at trial.
Hemp industry members say Congress specifically prohibited states from creating their own strict hemp regulations.
Jurors convicted the former president on narco-conspiracy charges in March.
Chrystul Kizer was set to go to trial in June before Thursday's plea deal was unexpectedly announced.
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Three Republicans sent a letter to the president saying he has the power to unilaterally block the company’s $14.1 billion acquisition by Nippon Steel.
Jeff Fortenberry's previous conviction in California was overturned by the Ninth Circuit.
Judges questioned if officers had probable cause to charge and detain a Black minister and community leader for drug trafficking after all evidence pointed to his son.
The high court said no additional measures are needed to ensure “innocent owners” can get their seized cars back quickly.
The high court allowed a music producer to claim payment for over a decade of unlicensed use of his work.
Opponents of the concurrent resolution say it will encourage police to rely on racial profiling to enforce the law.
DeviantArt and Midjourney denied copyright claims from artists who say they their work was used to train Stable Diffusion, an AI model that generates images from text prompts.
Gun owners in the Golden State weren't deprived of their Second Amendment or privacy rights because the state only shares minimal biographical information with two research colleges, a Ninth Circuit panel found on Wednesday.
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by minors who sought to hold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accountable for the air pollution and unfolding climate crisis that they claim is destroying their lives.
Rulings
An appeals court in New York upheld a lower court’s finding that the protocols established by the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government violated the separation of powers doctrine. Agreeing with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s challenge to the commission, the court says that no matter how well intended, the law establishing the commission usurped the government’s executive power to enforce laws — in this case, on ethics — placing the power instead within an agency outside the executive’s control.
A federal court in Arizona permitted the attorneys general of almost all 50 states to proceed with their lawsuit against Avid Telecom and its executives, who have allegedly facilitated more than 24 billion of robocalls in the United States. The attorneys general say billions of these calls were scams, and that the company has ignored the more than 300 notifications that its network is being used for such illegal robocalls.
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 Texas dismissed the counterclaims brought by Louis Black, the co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest (SXSW), against a former employee who sued him for allegedly coercing her into sex and withholding her salary when she refused to marry him. His countersuit alleges that she stole “several valuable comic books and pulp magazines” from his garage, but the counterclaim is inappropriate because the legal questions in the suit and countersuit “contain no overlap.”
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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.
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.
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.
Airline passengers and former travel agents seek to stop Alaska Airlines from acquiring Hawaiian Airlines Inc., saying the deal creates a monopoly, shrinks competition in multiple passenger airline markets and threatens Hawaii's economy.
Civil rights groups say that U.S. Custom and Border Protection's app for asylum applicants is faulty and inaccessible, especially for disabled applicants.
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