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A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under the law needed to return. As of early Sunday morning, it was unclear whether any such planes had departed […]
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The United States has fallen to its lowest ranking ever on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Transparency International reported. The index comes as President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the enforcement of a long-standing anti-bribery law. The law, in place for nearly five decades, prohibits […]
(Reuters) – India’s Adani Green said it has appointed independent law firms to review the U.S. indictment of founder Gautam Adani and top Adani Green executives for paying $265 million in bribes for power contracts. The appointment of the law firms was announced in a 33-page earnings regulatory filing made by Adani Green late on […]
Washington — The 170 million TikTok users in the U.S. could be in for a rude awakening come Sunday if they suddenly find the enormously popular video-sharing app is inaccessible because of a law passed by a bipartisan majority in Congress last year. Lawmakers and U.S. officials have sounded the alarm for years about the […]
A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that effectively bans the wildly popular app TikTok in the United States starting on Sunday. The ruling ended, at least for now, a legal battle involving national security, free speech and a cultural phenomenon that had millions of Americans deliriously swiping their phone screens at any […]
Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group have filed a lawsuit against Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay for damage the state attributes to climate change. The federal lawsuit, which was filed Monday, urges a state court […]
CNN — Authorities believe fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel were connected to a detonation system controlled by the driver in the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. The FBI is working to determine whether the incident was […]
A U.S. appeals court has halted enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that requires corporate entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners to the U.S. Treasury Department ahead of a deadline for most companies to do so. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated late Thursday a nationwide injunction […]
Vanessa Crowe, a 50-year-old grandmother serving a long federal prison term on drug charges, eagerly enrolled in programs to cut her time behind bars — and was told she was eligible for release in May under a landmark sentencing reform law passed in 2018. But this year, as she prepared to leave a prison camp […]
The number of Black students entering Harvard Law School dropped sharply this fall after last year’s Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, according to enrollment data released on Monday. Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data […]