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DOJ to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in CEO murder case
Luigi Mangione, accused killer of US insurance CEO Brian Thompson, sits in Manhattan Supreme Court as he attends a hearing in New York City on Feb. 21, 2025. Steven Hirsch | AFP | Getty Images Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday said she had ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case […]
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FBI searches homes of Indiana U. cybersecurity Prof. XiaoFeng Wang and wife, seizes boxes
Pedestrians on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana, US, on Sunday, April 7, 2024. Chet Strange | Bloomberg | Getty Images Video grabs of FBI raid at the home of Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Associate Dean for Research, XiaoFeng Wang. Source: 13WTHR NBC Affiliate An Indiana U. spokesman responded […]
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Trump says Skadden, Arps law firm will provide $100 million in pro bono legal services, avoiding executive order
President Donald Trump said Friday that the large law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has agreed to provide at least $100 million in pro bono legal services to the federal government during the Trump administration. The agreement, which Trump called “essentially a settlement,” calls for other actions and allows Skadden, Arps to avoid […]
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Trump sued by two more ‘Big Law’ firms he targeted in executive orders
Signage is seen outside of the law firm WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 30, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Two more law firms sued the Trump administration on Friday over executive orders by President Donald Trump targeting them for employing attorneys who worked on criminal investigations of the president. The lawsuits by WilmerHale and […]
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Nikola founder Trevor Milton says Trump pardoned him in securities fraud case
Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., arrives at court in New York, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton said Thursday that he had been granted a full pardon by President Donald Trump for his October 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding […]
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Man charged in Molotov cocktail attack on Teslas in Las Vegas
Investigators look over the scene at a Tesla Collision Center after an individual used incendiary devices to set several vehicles on fire on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images A Las Vegas man has been arrested on charges related to the Molotov cocktail arson attack on Tesla vehicles in […]
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FBI launches Tesla threats task force: ‘This is domestic terrorism’
Burned Teslas are shown at a Tesla Collision Center after an individual used incendiary devices to set several vehicles on fire on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images The FBI said Monday it has launched a task force with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to investigate […]
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Tesla showroom in Texas targeted with ‘incendiary devices’, police say
A Tesla Cybertruck is parked in front of a showroom on March 20, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Police said Monday that they had found multiple “incendiary” devices that had been placed at a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas. The FBI was assisting Austin Police at the showroom on Monday morning. […]
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Republican interim SEC chief Mark Uyeda cast the sole vote against suing Musk
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S. on March 5, 2025. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Days before Republicans took the helm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January, the agency’s five commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue Elon Musk. Since 2022, the agency had been […]
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Trump’s Social Security chief backs down from ‘shutting down’ agency
A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images The head of the U.S. Social Security Administration has backed down from “shutting down the agency” after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire […]
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