A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service broke federal law when it shared more than 47,000 taxpayer records with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a Trump administration data-sharing system.The unanimous U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld an order blocking the IRS... Read More »
President Donald Trump has escalated the U.S. trade fight with Canada beyond tariffs, ordering outright bans on imports of certain Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles beginning September 29.The move raises a legal question that became more important after the Supreme Court curtailed Trump’s tariff authority earlier this year. If... Read More »
About 8,200 Michigan residents received enhanced driver's licenses or state IDs bearing the same unfamiliar man's face and a generic birth date after a vendor printing error affected thousands of government-issued credentials.The Michigan Department of State said the error involved a batch of enhanced licenses and IDs printed Aug. 26... Read More »
President Donald Trump gave Natalie Harp and two other White House aides $45,000 each in personal cash gifts, according to newly released financial disclosures, drawing scrutiny under a federal law that restricts private payments to government employees for their official work.Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin and White House aide Chamberlain... Read More »
A new documentary about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is renewing interest in one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched criminal fraud cases more than three years after she reported to federal prison.You Can See Everything, a nearly three-hour film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, made a surprise... Read More »
President Donald Trump says Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier will no longer be allowed to sell jets in the United States unless it moves production to the country, raising a new legal question in the expanding U.S.-Canada trade dispute: Can a president simply ban a foreign company’s aircraft from the American... Read More »
Newly released 9/11 records show New York City officials were discussing toxic exposure, health risks and potential legal claims within weeks of the attacks as residents, workers and students returned to Lower Manhattan.Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that more than 170,000 pages of September 11 records are being made public,... Read More »
A payment processing company has agreed to pay $12 million and accept sweeping restrictions on its business after the Federal Trade Commission accused it of helping more than 1,000 sham merchants process unauthorized charges on consumers’ credit and debit cards.The FTC sued 5967 Ventures LLC, which does business as Humboldt... Read More »
Lindsay Clancy’s defense lawyer asked President Donald Trump to pardon her after her Massachusetts murder trial ended in a mistrial, even though presidential pardon power does not extend to the state murder charges against her.Attorney Kevin Reddington made the appeal Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” asking Trump to consider... Read More »
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a federal system that allows states to conduct large-scale citizenship checks of their voter rolls using immigration and Social Security records, less than two months before the November midterm elections.The Department of Homeland Security filed an emergency application Tuesday,... Read More »
