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Instagram and Meta logos displayed on an evidence monitor in an empty American courtroom, with a judge's gavel resting on the bench in the foreground

Meta Owes New Mexico $942 Million. The Part That Should Scare It Costs Nothing.

Chief District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 6

Two uniformed sheriff's deputies and a plainclothes agent speaking into a radio stand beside a white patrol SUV at a clifftop golf course overlooking the Pacific Ocean at sunset

The Man Arrested at Trump’s Golf Club Was Filming Security Prep. The Public Found Out Hours Before Trump Arrived.

Plainclothes federal agents spotted Jeanine John Taele at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 4

Burned homes reduced to concrete foundations with brick chimneys and a street sign still standing on a scorched pine bluff above the Spokane River, smoke haze in the valley and firefighters in the distance

Police Stopped the Old Trails Fire Suspect Saturday With Matches in His Pocket. The Arrest Took Two Days.

An Airway Heights police officer found Aaron Farinacci roughly a mile and a half…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 4

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36 People, One Statute: How the DOJ Turned ICE Protests Into Federal Conspiracies

The Justice Department has charged more than three dozen people in at least ten…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 4

A printed notice taped to a mailbox post in the foreground of a quiet suburban cul-de-sac of single-family homes at sunset

HOA Foreclosures Jumped 40% Because the Associations Themselves Ran Out of Money

More than 6,300 properties picked up an HOA-related foreclosure filing in the first quarter…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 4

Twin barbed-wire border fences run down a hillside to a beach at Ceuta, with a rock breakwater extending into the Mediterranean and a patrol boat offshore

57 Died Reaching Ceuta. Spain Returned 48,300 People to Morocco Within Two Days.

Spanish authorities confirmed on Friday evening that 57 people died trying to reach Ceuta,…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 31

A thick stack of printed legal briefs lit by a brass banker's lamp on a counsel table in a dark empty courtroom, closed laptop beside it

Artificial Intelligence

A $500 Fine in Las Vegas Shows Why AI Keeps Ending Up in Court Filings

A Clark County judge sanctioned a Las Vegas defense attorney this week after finding…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 31

A man in a dark navy suit walks alone down a sunlit marble corridor in a US Senate office building

Trump Would Rather Lose His Attorney General Than Limit His Own Tax Immunity

President Donald Trump said Thursday he has “no objection” to temporarily withdrawing Todd Blanche’s…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 31

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes in dress uniform standing behind a lectern with his head lowered, American and Washington State flags behind him

Shon Barnes Was in Dallas When the Shooting Started, and Seattle Answered a Communications Failure by Firing Him

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes was at a conference in Dallas on Sunday evening…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 30

A gray-haired man in a dark navy inmate uniform sits with his head bowed at a wooden courtroom defense table, a judge visible on the bench behind him

Colin Gray Is the First Parent Convicted of Murder for a School Shooting, and He Got 15 Years

A Georgia judge sentenced Colin Gray to 15 years in prison on Thursday for…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 30

A weathered concrete and timber jetty running into clear turquoise water at a Caribbean beach with green hills in the distance and no people on the pier

Two Timelines Do Not Match in the Search for Liz Waddell, and Grenada Police Are Working Both

Surveillance cameras recorded Elizabeth “Liz” Waddell walking onto a jetty near Grand Anse Beach…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 30

Flats of unlabeled silver beer cans on a steel table in an empty brewery taproom with dark tap handles and a sealed white envelope

A $500 Tax Dispute Just Cost Minocqua Brewing Its Permits, and That Is the Real Story

Wisconsin’s Department of Revenue has moved to revoke the brewer’s permits at both Minocqua…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 30

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Author Salman Rushdie seated in a sunlit stone corridor, wearing tinted glasses with a darkened right lens after losing sight in that eye

Hadi Matar Convicted of Terrorism in the Rushdie Stabbing, and This Time the Case Turned on Why

Empty wood-paneled courtroom with a vacant jury box, an American flag beside the judge's bench, and a bare defense table with one chair pushed back

Colt Gray Gets Life Without Parole for the Apalachee Killings, and the Judge Called the Motive Fame

Suburban front porch at night with red and blue police lights and a TV camera silhouette

Tennessee Grandmother Says Her Arrest Was Staged for a Reality TV Show. Her Lawsuit Exposes a System That Treats People Like Content.

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Amazon Prime’s $2.5 Billion FTC Settlement Deadline Is Today: How to Claim Your Refund Before It Expires

Police emergency lights and yellow tape at Seattle Center near the Space Needle after a mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival

Mass Shooting at Seattle’s Bite of Seattle Festival Leaves Multiple People Shot Near the Space Needle

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Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial Jury Seated as Massachusetts Prepares for One of Its Most Watched Cases in Years

Empty FBI conference room with ICE badge and closed case folder on desk in dramatic lighting

FBI Told to Stop Investigating ICE Agent Shootings as Accountability Fears Mount

Cinematic view of a federal courtroom during sentencing of a cartel leader, seen from the gallery with dramatic lighting and American flag

El Mayo Zambada Gets Life in Prison, Ending the Sinaloa Cartel’s Founding Chapter

Rapper Boosie Badazz sits alone at a marble table in a dim Washington hotel lounge with a legal folder and phone, the US Capitol dome visible through the window behind him

Boosie’s $600,000 Pardon Receipt Is the Clearest Look Yet at Trump’s Clemency Market

Andrew Tate in handcuffs being escorted by two U.S. Marshals federal agents outside a Miami federal building at dusk

Andrew and Tristan Tate Arrested in Miami by U.S. Marshals as Britain Seeks Extradition on Rape Charges

Donald Trump seen through a teleprompter glass panel mid-speech, with a smartphone showing a prediction-market trading chart in the foreground

Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Made Over $100,000 Betting on the President’s Own Words

Todd Blanche seated at the witness table speaking into a microphone before a raised dais of U.S. senators at his attorney general confirmation hearing

Todd Blanche’s Attorney General Hearing Becomes a Referendum on a Captured Justice Department

Police lights and crime scene tape on a residential street in a New England town at dawn

ICE Killed a Colombian Father in Maine Who Had Legal Status and Wasn’t Even the Target

Federal judge gavel striking down on legal documents with scales of justice and IRS building in background

A Federal Judge Just Called Trump’s IRS Lawsuit What It Was: A $10 Billion Shakedown

Police tape stretched across an empty residential street in East St. Louis with emergency lights reflecting off wet pavement at dusk

Two Teenagers in Custody After Shooting Spree Kills Five Family Members Across East St. Louis

Yellow police tape reading Police Line Do Not Cross stretched across a cordoned residential street in Biddeford, Maine, with law-enforcement SUVs and an officer in the distance

One Dead in Biddeford ICE Shooting, the Second Fatal ICE Encounter in a Week

White work van stopped at a Houston East End intersection at dawn, boxed in by two unmarked dark SUVs with flashing grille lights

Houston ICE Shooting: Witnesses in the Van Say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Never Rammed Officers

Official portrait of Ann Widdecombe smiling in a lavender jacket with pearl earrings against a blurred backdrop

Ann Widdecombe Found Dead at 78: Police Arrest 26-Year-Old on Suspicion of Murder