The European Union has taken significant steps toward finalizing a trade agreement with the United States that would permit Washington to impose a 15 percent tariff on most European products while allowing American industrial goods to enter Europe duty-free. Following extensive negotiations on Wednesday, both the European Parliament and the European Council gave their approval...
Federal prosecutors have appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court decision that excluded racial hatred as an aggravating factor in the upcoming federal trial of the man who killed ten people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. The 22-year-old shooter, who is already serving life without parole on state...
A legal dispute between a dog toy manufacturer and a major whiskey producer reached the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, as attorneys debated whether a parody chew toy infringes on trademark protections. VIP Products, the company behind a rubber squeaky toy called “Bad Spaniels,” is appealing a permanent injunction that prevents them from...
The journey of fentanyl from Mexican ports to American streets involves a sophisticated network of criminal actors operating at different levels of the supply chain, creating an intricate ecosystem that shapes the synthetic opioid trade between the two nations. The process begins at Mexico’s Pacific ports, where precursor chemicals arrive from overseas suppliers. These chemical...
The former director of Berkeley’s police accountability office has filed a lawsuit against the city and its mayor, alleging wrongful termination after attempts to investigate officer misconduct and enforce departmental obligations. Hansel Aguilar, who led the Office of Police Accountability until his dismissal earlier this year, filed the complaint in Alameda County Superior Court on...
The New York State Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could reshape the state’s judicial retirement system, as three veteran judges challenge the constitutionality of mandatory retirement requirements following a recent expansion of civil rights protections. The case centers on whether New York’s 2024 Equal Rights Amendment, which added age as...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on May 14, 2026, held that a freight broker can be subject to state-law negligent-hiring claims arising from a 2017 tractor-trailer crash that resulted in the amputation of a truck driver’s lower leg. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the unanimous opinion, finding that a safety exception to a federal statute...
Suspect Taken into Custody in Downtown Burglary Case Law enforcement officials announced the arrest of a suspect connected to a burglary that occurred downtown in May 2026. Authorities have been conducting an active investigation since the incident was reported to local police, aiming to identify and apprehend the individual responsible for the crime. Investigation Details...
Janet Walsh, 23, was found dead in her Monaca, Pennsylvania, apartment on Sept. 1, 1979, and investigators at the time treated the case as a homicide that tore through the small community and left questions unanswered for decades. Police said Walsh had been out bar-hopping the night of Aug. 31 into the early hours of...
Three online shoppers have filed a federal class action lawsuit against the discount e-commerce platform Woot.com, alleging the company secretly collected and shared their personal browsing data with third-party advertisers without proper consent. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, names Austin Roth, Brandon Rose, and Alexander...