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Ex-President Jacob Zuma's 15-month prison sentence disqualifies him from being a lawmaker.

In the October incident, a pedestrian crossing the road was struck by another vehicle before landing in front of the Cruise taxi. The robotaxi braked hard but ran over the person.

The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons.

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey businessman paid tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of Senator Bob Menendez after he was granted a monopoly of certifications of halal meat imported into Egypt from the United States.

In a case that highlights the increasing prevalence of YouTube content for children, a jury found that one content creator had infringed the copyrights of another.

Bit of a weird one here. So, there’s the assumption made by all cops and most courts that any area visible to passersby does not have an expectation of privacy. That means front yards, open garages, etc. Courts and cops have mostly agreed this expectation of privacy does not suddenly appear no matter how long the government...

World number one Scottie Scheffler is charged with assaulting a police officer hours before his second round at the US PGA Championship.

Rebecca Joynes, 30, convicted of engaging in sexual activity with minors while in a position of trust

Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved "laptop farm," identity theft, and résumé coaching....

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism in a challenge brought by the payday loan industry, handing a victory to President Joe Biden's administration and a setback to the agency's conservative critics.

In California, Biden's charged with three felonies and six misdemeanors over at least $1.4 million in taxes he owed during between 2016 and 2019.

A federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

Björn Höcke, party’s candidate to lead Thuringia state, found to have deliberately used SA slogan in 2021 speech

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, have been charged with accepting bribes from Egyptians and Qataris in exchange for official acts from the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The First Amendment claim is unlikely to go very far....

Sai Varshith Kandula from Missouri, who was carrying a Nazi flag at time of arrest, said he hoped to overthrow the US government

Every once in a while you get a trademark bullying story that meets a just and proper end. Almost a year ago, we discussed how Louis Vuitton, famous maker of luxury fashion products and infamous trademark bully, did its bullying thing when it opposed the trademark application for a company in the UK called L V Bespoke. Louis...

Section 230 immunity isn’t just for Big Tech companies, lawsuit says.

Rasoulof is one of Iran’s leading directors and his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig is due to premiere at Cannes film festival

Japanese baseball great Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he illegally transferred nearly $17 million from the athlete's bank account, without Ohtani's knowledge, to pay off his own gambling debts.

Donald Trump's trial in Florida on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office has been indefinitely postponed, a judge decided on Tuesday, greatly reducing the odds he will face a jury in either of the two federal criminal cases against him before the Nov. 5 U.S. election.

Trader Joe's must pay more than $100,000 in attorneys' fees for bringing an "exceptionally weak" trademark lawsuit against its employee union, a California federal judge has determined....

Andy Jassy said employees in a union would ‘find it harder to get things done quickly and would be better off’ without one

Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for his involvement in the REvil ransomware operation.