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Bishop Reginald Jackson died from cardiac arrest at a hospital in Washington. The 71-year-old religious leader spent decades pushing Black voters to the polls and became a major player in both New Jersey and Georgia politics. His endorsement could apparently swing hundreds of thousands of church...

Politics has been absolutely unhinged since Thanksgiving ended, with Marjorie Taylor Greene rage-quitting Congress and exposing how fractured the Republican party has gotten. Trump dropped another immigration crackdown after troops got attacked in DC, and the economy is still a complete mess...

One of El Chapo's sons just admitted in a Chicago courtroom that he straight-up kidnapped his dad's old business partner and handed him over to American feds. Joaquín Guzmán López confessed to luring Ismael Zambada García out of hiding by pretending there was some political meeting to attend...

Hegseth is catching heat from all sides after reports dropped that he might have ordered troops to kill survivors from boat strikes off Venezuela. Trump started backing away over the weekend by saying he wouldn't have wanted a second strike, but Hegseth posted a meme of a cartoon turtle blowing...

Republicans are freaking out about a special House election in Tennessee because their candidate is only ahead by like two points in a district Trump won by over 20. Speaker Mike Johnson flew in and got Trump on speakerphone to tell everyone the whole world is watching this race, which is pretty...

The IRS is trying to figure out what counts as porn after Trump's tax break for tips got passed, and it's turning into a whole mess. Sex workers on OnlyFans were hyped about potentially claiming the new deduction, but the government said tips from prostitution or pornographic stuff don't...

The Supreme Court heard arguments about whether internet companies should get hit with massive damages when their customers pirate music online. Music labels sued Cox Communications back in 2018 because the company kept providing service to people who were constantly getting flagged for illegal...

Federal prosecutors in DC just got handed a weird new power after a judge said they can use local grand juries to charge serious federal crimes. The whole thing started when prosecutors tried getting an indictment from a federal grand jury for a gun case, got rejected, and then just went to a...

Trump's Solicitor General office is going through some wild changes under his former personal lawyer, John Sauer. More than half the frontline attorneys bounced by late November, which is way higher turnover than usual, even when administrations flip parties. The White House has been way more...

Trump's election interference case in Georgia got tossed last week, but the fallout from 2020 is still messing with state politics heading into the midterms. The Justice Department has been going after Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor who originally charged Trump, and they've already sent out...

A 19-year-old college freshman got detained at Boston Logan International Airport while trying to catch a flight to surprise her dad for Thanksgiving, and she ended up getting deported to Honduras two days later. Any Lucía López Belloza had been living in the US since she was 7, but apparently...

Some big-name lawmakers from both parties are saying the military might have done a war crime during Trump's boat attacks in the Caribbean. A recent report claims Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told troops to kill everyone on suspected drug-smuggling boats, and that led to a second strike being...

A federal appeals court shut down the Trump administration's attempt to make Alina Habba the acting US attorney for New Jersey because she had already got nominated for the permanent gig. The Third Circuit said putting her in that spot broke federal vacancy laws, and defendants in two criminal...

African Union leaders rolled up to Algiers to talk reparations and accountability for colonial crimes across the continent. Algeria's foreign minister pushed for legal recognition that colonialism was criminal, plus compensation and return of stolen artifacts that he said international law backs...

A bunch of humanitarian groups went off on Ukraine for bailing on the Ottawa Convention, which is basically the international treaty that banned landmines back in the 90s. The organizations pointed out that the agreement does not let countries just hit pause on their commitments during wars, and...

Russia's top court just slapped a terrorist label on the Anti-Corruption Foundation that Alexei Navalny's crew ran, which means anyone tied to it could face life in prison with no statute of limitations. The group made videos exposing government corruption that racked up millions of views, like...

Thousands of people hit the streets in Manila after a massive corruption scandal blew up around flood-control money that supposedly got funneled to politicians and contractors instead of actual projects. The Catholic Church and opposition groups marched down EDSA Avenue demanding President...

Human Rights Watch dropped a pretty grim assessment about the Central African Republic elections coming up, saying the whole thing looks sketchy with political interference and security issues messing up the legitimacy. The country scrapped presidential term limits through a referendum, which...

Friedrich Graf von Westphalen snagged six partners from ADVANT Beiten's Frankfurt crew, with three landing this month and the other three showing up after the holidays. Gerritt Ponath is the big name after spending 18 years at ADVANT doing private client stuff for rich families dealing with...

DWF grabbed an 11-lawyer transport and marine crew from two German boutique firms and set up shop in Hamburg with them. Marco Remiorz is running the show after bouncing from Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein, while Philipp Hartmann and Niels Witt came over from SKW Schwarz. The firm's CEO said Germany...