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 »
Last Wednesday, a New York City man pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court on federal charges brought against him for threatening Biden supporters during the U.S. Presidential election. The indictment also lists the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Brian Maiorana is... Read More »
Chemistry student Yukai Yang, 24, of China, has pled guilty to attempted first-degree murder and other related charges against his roommate, Juwan Royal. Juwan Royal, a black student who roomed with Yang at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, was the victim of repeated poisoning with the heavy metal thallium. The... Read More »
A federal grand jury has indicted the captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California last September. The 67-year-old captain, Jerry Nehl Boylan, was indicted on 34 counts of negligent seaman’s manslaughter. The incident took place during the early hours of September 2nd,... Read More »
A Fort Worth, Texas woman is seeking to get her conviction of illegal voting charges overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Crystal Mason, a Black woman from Fort Worth, Texas, cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Mason says she cast her provisional ballot on the... Read More »
On November 30, a Transportation Security Administration employee filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. federal government. The lawsuit alleges that the government has deprived TSA workers of required hazard pay and environmental discharge pay for work done at airports during the pandemic. The TSA employee who filed the lawsuit... Read More »
Late last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted in a narrow decision of 5-4 blocking the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, from strictly limiting the number of people congregating in areas of worship, including churches and synagogues. The governor of New York implemented these restrictive measures after the state... Read More »
Several groups of nonprofit environmental advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against California. The lawsuit is in opposition to a new dam that is set to be built in the Del Puerto Canyon. The lawsuit was filed by the Sierra Club, the California Native Plant Society, Friends of the River,... Read More »
