On Friday, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC) agreed to pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” for US president-elect Donald Trump as a settlement for Trump’s defamation lawsuit. ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos interviewed Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) on March 10, after she endorsed Trump for the presidency. Stephanopoulos questioned how Mace as [...]

A Georgia state judge on Friday shut down an effort by former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to undo his guilty plea in the state’s election interference case involving President-elect Donald Trump and his allies. Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court denied Chesebro’s motion on multiple grounds, calling it “rocedurally defective in more [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced a court-enforceable agreement with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, following a sweeping investigation into the Louisville Metro Government. The investigation was prompted by the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor and a 2023 DOJ report detailing a pattern of racial discrimination by the police force. The agreement, [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a New York doctor for allegedly providing abortion drugs to a Texas resident. The state filed the lawsuit at the District Court at Collin County, claiming that the defendant’s “knowing and continuing violations of Texas law places women and unborn children in Texas at [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a challenge to California’s vehicle emissions standards as well as a Wisconsin case concerning tax exemptions for religious organizations. In Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, the court will consider a challenge from fuel producers against the Clean Air Act provision allowing California to [...]

Minnesota and New Jersey sued Glock, Inc. (Glock) and its parent company Glock Ges.m.b.H. in their respective states on Thursday for selling semi-automatic handguns that are easily convertible to machine guns. The two states are seeking an injunction that would prevent Glock from selling such handguns, and Minnesota specifically seeks an order for Glock to modify [...]

US President Joe Biden granted clemency Thursday to nearly 1,500 Americans in the largest single-day use of presidential clemency powers in modern US history. The action includes sentence commutations for approximately 1,500 people who were moved to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with pardons for 39 individuals convicted of non-violent crimes. The bulk [...]

According to a report released Tuesday by a government watchdog, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) covertly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 congressional staffers, possibly including Kash Patel, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director. The records were obtained during wide-ranging leak investigations conducted during Trump’s first term. The report, issued [...]

The US government unsealed an indictment Monday charging two former high-ranking officials of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence with war crimes. The indictment accuses Jamil Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud of cruel and inhuman treatment, including the torture of detainees, some of whom were US citizens, at the Mezzeh military airbase prison in Damascus. The [...]

President Joe Biden designated the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania as a national monument Monday, marking a historic step to acknowledge the dark legacy of Native American boarding schools in the United States. The school was part of a broader system of Native American boarding schools aimed at erasing indigenous cultures and assimilating [...]