Recent Updates
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New Orleans mayor pleads not guilty on corruption charges tied to alleged affair
Family Law 09/08/2025New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiracy, fraud and obstruction charges stemming from an alleged romantic relationship with her bodyguard.The Democrat appeared in federal court for the first time since a grand jury...
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Washington, Oregon and California governors form a health alliance
Business Law 09/03/2025The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the...
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‘Ketamine Queen’ pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry
Family Law 08/28/2025A woman branded as the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, becoming the fifth and final defendant charged in Perry’s overdose death to admit guilt.Jasveen Sangha pleaded guilt...
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Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts
Business Law 08/23/2025Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands.For months, Powell has largely ign...
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Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
Family Law 08/20/2025A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...
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Man struck and killed on freeway after fleeing immigration agents
Criminal Law 08/17/2025A man fleeing immigration authorities outside a Home Depot store in Southern California was struck and killed by an SUV when he ran across a nearby freeway, officials said.Police in the city of Monrovia about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Los...
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Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
Court Watch 08/11/2025The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public profile.But like so much in President Donald Trum...
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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s detention center
Criminal Law 08/04/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates e...
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Appellate judges question Trump’s authority to impose tariffs without Congress
Family Law 08/01/2025Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs.Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ap...
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Immigration judges fired by Trump administration say they will fight back
Personal Injury 07/27/2025Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight back.More than 50 immigration judges — from senior leaders to new appointees &mdash...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
Family Law 07/23/2025A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadersh...
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Georgia appeals court upholds ruling saying election officials must certify results
Family Law 07/10/2025A Georgia appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that said county election officials in the state must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had ruled in October that &ldqu...