Timothy Dalton Vaughn, A 22-year-old from North Carolina, has been sentenced with almost eight years of jail time for conspiring to make death threats, computer hacking, and possession of child pornography. The 22-year old is a member of a worldwide hacking group known as the “Apophis Squad.” Vaughn went by... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that challenged an Oregon school district's policy regarding bathroom use and transgender student accommodations. The lawsuit, which was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court for review by a parent group, Parents for Privacy, was denied the request for appeal, automatically allowing the... Read More »
Charges against General Michael Flynn have formally been dismissed after a pardon from Trump was granted in late November. General Flynn served as the Trump Administration’s National Security Advisor up until February 2017. During his time with the administration, Flynn came under scrutiny during Robert Mueller’s investigation, which looked into... Read More »
An antitrust report has just been released by top Democratic congressional lawmakers. The report was compiled by several Democratic members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. The main mission of the report was to investigate whether or not the four biggest tech companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple broke... Read More »
The Trump campaign was dealt another blow in the 2020 election as Philadelphia has become the latest state to reject a lawsuit challenging the state's counting of what the campaign alleges are "illegal votes." Republican efforts led by U.S. Representative Mike Kelly allege that approximately 2.5 million mail-in ballots were... Read More »
18 Kentucky bar applicants are recovering from whiplash after 15 of them were told they had passed the October Kentucky bar exam when they, in fact, had not. Conversely, three others were told they had failed the bar exam when they had actually passed. The erroneous results are being blamed... Read More »
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The lawsuit alleges that under the Trump administration, these agencies purchased cell phone data that tracked the location of millions of immigrants. The ACLU filed the... Read More »
John Pierce, a California attorney representing 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, has stepped away from the defense team after prosecutors raised ethical concerns about Pierce. Rittenhouse is facing murder charges after fatally shooting two people and wounding another during the Kenosha protest that gained national attention this past summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.... Read More »
Five New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) employees have been charged with extensive overtime fraud for filling out timesheets, stating they worked longer hours than they actually did. The four employees who worked for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) included Thomas Caputo, 56, Joseph Ruzzo, 56, John Nugent, 50,... Read More »
The Trump administration is putting more pressure on China by banning cotton imports from the country's Western region, Xinjiang. The move comes after suspicions that the region is using slave labor to make textile goods. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency shared last Wednesday that the ban would be... Read More »
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its finalized environmental impact statement (EIS) that recommends new rollbacks on protections for migratory birds. This final step of publishing its proposal in the federal registrar could mean that the new regulations will be in effect before the end of December,... Read More »
On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that the company used unfair hiring practices that favored temporary visa holders over qualified U.S. workers. The lawsuit comes as part of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, an initiative that was born... Read More »
Over 400 different lawmakers across 34 countries are in support of a new initiative called the Make Amazon Pay campaign. This campaign has released a list of "common demands for Amazon," in which signatories have outlined the negative impact Amazon has had on workers, communities, and the world as a... Read More »
Two American citizens who were the subject of a lawsuit filed in 2019 against the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have reached a settlement deal. The lawsuit was filed by the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez. The two... Read More »
A Mesa, Arizona, man pled guilty to running an illegal adoption ring that involved three states and two countries. Paul Petersen is a former Maricopa County Assessor who was charged with running an illegal adoption ring through his Mesa law office. Investigators looking into Petersen's criminal activity alleged that along... Read More »
