Recent Updates
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2 ex-FBI officials charged with lying about involvement in investigation
Court Watch 10/24/2026Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against two former FBI officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, accusing them of giving false statements to Congress about their role in the bureau's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop matter bef...
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Supreme Court agrees to review a Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits
Court Watch 10/21/2026The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago.Plaintiffs challenging the prohibition on home distilling claim the 1868 l...
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Maduro Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Capture in U.S. Drug Case
Court Watch 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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S. Carolina lawmakers look at the most restrictive abortion bill in the US
Court Watch 11/19/2025A 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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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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TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
Court Watch 12/17/2024TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.Lawyers for the company and China-base...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Court Watch 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Court Watch 06/26/2024Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coal...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
Court Watch 06/19/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
Court Watch 05/29/2024A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...
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Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump
Court Watch 04/17/2024The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that ...
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
Court Watch 02/28/2024Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...