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May 12, 2026
The state of New Jersey and one of its municipalities on Tuesday temporarily paused their bid to block a planned immigration detention center after reaching an agreement with federal officials that halts most work at the site pending further environmental review.
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May 12, 2026
Comcast claims it's still having problems getting Appalachian Power Co. to cover the cost of utility pole fixes for broadband upgrades, but it's not clear whether the Federal Communications Commission is ready to spring into action to resolve the dispute.
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May 12, 2026
Jeffrey Epstein accusers urged lawmakers to pass laws giving more rights to sex trafficking victims, testifying Tuesday during a congressional hearing in Florida that they were never consulted prior to a federal non-prosecution agreement for the late financier nearly 20 years ago.
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May 12, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a group of jail officials in Michigan should be given qualified immunity from a lawsuit alleging they ignored the medical needs of a man who was incarcerated in their facility and later died from cardiac arrest.
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May 12, 2026
Over 8.3 million imports are pending tariff refunds after clearing the final system processes developed by Customs and Border Protection, accounting for almost $35.5 billion in duty refunds with interest, according to the latest declaration filed Tuesday by an agency official in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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May 12, 2026
Cintas Corp. is giving the Federal Trade Commission additional time to review its planned $5.5 billion acquisition of fellow uniform and facility services supplier UniFirst Corp. for its effect on competition.
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May 12, 2026
The leader of what Georgia and federal securities regulators have called a $140 million Ponzi scheme pled guilty to a federal wire charge Tuesday over allegations that he preyed on seniors and funneled money to right-wing politicians.
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May 12, 2026
A Maryland federal judge once again blasted the Trump administration attorneys looking to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia, saying they misled the Fourth Circuit in their interlocutory appeal and questioned how his removal would be imminent without her injunction barring it when he is still facing an indictment in Tennessee.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division waded into a private patent infringement lawsuit Monday, telling a Delaware federal court that just "reading" a patent, or viewing and sequencing the genetic material that must be submitted for the seed patents at issue, can't on its own count as infringement.
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May 12, 2026
Michigan's two Democratic senators played it coy on Tuesday when asked if they would support the district court nominee for their state that the president announced the night before.
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May 12, 2026
President Donald Trump can delay enforcement of the $83.3 million verdict for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals the Second Circuit's en banc refusal to rehear his appeal, as long as he puts up $7.5 million in interest that may accrue during Supreme Court proceedings, the panel said Monday.
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May 12, 2026
The Federal Circuit halted a permanent injunction issued by the U.S. Court of International Trade that was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday, which would have stopped the collection of duties under President Donald Trump's temporary global tariff from two businesses and the state of Washington.
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May 12, 2026
A Pennsylvania appellate court on Tuesday questioned the system for distributing opioid companies' settlement money, after three counties and the city of Philadelphia said a review board unfairly disapproved their projects after the money was spent.
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May 12, 2026
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Tuesday it has hired the U.S. Department of the Treasury's former acting assistant secretary for terrorist financing, who focused her work at the agency on economic statecraft initiatives, as well as addressing geopolitical threats to the U.S. and global financial systems.
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May 12, 2026
A Montana district court judge has temporarily blocked a state law that cut off federal Election Day voter registration at noon, saying it will prevent otherwise eligible voters from casting ballots and disproportionately affects Native American and young voters.
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May 12, 2026
A Georgia state Senate committee has issued subpoenas to former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and two allies, calling on them to testify at the state Capitol on Friday about violations of campaign finance law during the 2018 election cycle.
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May 12, 2026
The Trump administration will challenge a California federal court decision that ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to continue drawing funding from the Federal Reserve, setting the stage for renewed litigation over the agency's access to cash.
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May 12, 2026
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary is departing the agency, President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday, bringing to an end a tumultuous, one-year run as one of the nation's top health officials.
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May 12, 2026
A Florida federal judge has rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis' bid to stay her preliminary injunction requiring noncitizens detained at the South Florida Detention Facility to have outgoing phone access to legal counsel, finding that his motion merely repeated prior arguments.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Trump nominee Kevin Warsh to a board seat at the Federal Reserve, moving him one step closer to taking over from Jerome Powell as chairman of the central bank.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using generative artificial intelligence to help redact records before public release, summarize documents and evaluate scientific literature, federal officials said in a recent conference.
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May 12, 2026
Federal prosecutors accused the management company and a supervisor of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024 of recklessly operating the ship, forging inspection documents and misleading safety investigators, according to a Maryland federal grand jury's criminal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
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May 11, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Federal Circuit to block the U.S. Court of International Trade's order last week deeming his temporary global 10% tariffs unlawful, arguing the trade court misinterpreted the legislative history of the Trade Act.
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May 11, 2026
The Trump administration must continue facing claims that it overstepped its authority by attempting to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, with a Maryland federal judge saying a lawsuit brought by the NAACP and three unions is strong enough to survive the administration's dismissal motion.
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May 11, 2026
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday in a California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, denying that he demanded OpenAI's board reinstate ousted CEO Sam Altman while acknowledging that he offered to pay up to $29 billion to bring Altman and others to Microsoft.