The former mayor of a Southern California city admitted in federal court Friday that she acted as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, formally pleading guilty in a case prosecutors have described as a brazen effort to spread Beijing-backed propaganda inside the United States. Eileen Li Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, pleaded…
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The treasurer of a Rockford-area gymnastics booster club has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $34,000. Shondra Mclarty, 55, of Rockton, admitted as part of a plea agreement in federal court that she stole money from the Tumbling and Acro Boosters Club between 2023 and 2024. According to court records, board…
A Guatemalan man with a criminal background who is in the country illegally was sentenced to federal prison for assaulting ICE officers during an arrest in 2025, federal officials said Tuesday. Guido Andres Alexander Cuellar-Batres was sentenced to eight months in prison and one year of supervised release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in…
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to…
Apps like Robinhood, Kalshi worry California gaming tribes more than online fantasy sports | California Politics 360 ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB BONTA ISSUED THE LEGAL OPINION, BUT NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CALIFORNIA NATION’S INDIAN GAMING ASSOCIATION JOINS US NOW. CHAIRMAN JAMES SIVA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. ABSOLUTELY. THANK…
BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president’s birthright order. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth…
Billings, Mont. (AP) — Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are trying to convince a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels. During a two-day hearing starting Tuesday in Missoula, Montana, the activists and their experts plan to…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government is taking unspecified “special measures” to protect people potentially exposed in a recent hack of court records, a top U.S. Department of Justice official said on Thursday. The hack of the federal judiciary’s filing systems has raised concerns across the judiciary since it…
During a hearing regarding conditions at the building — 26 Federal Plaza — a government attorney admitted that detainees did not have access to sleeping mats, medication or more than two meals per day, CBS News reports. A reported video of the facility obtained by the New York Immigration Coalition that was published in July…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -An Australian court found the smartphone app stores of Apple and Google-owned Android were uncompetitive, local media reported on Tuesday, in a partial victory for Fortnite game developer Epic Games against the tech giants. Amid a years-long legal dispute brought by Epic against the dominant smartphone makers in several jurisdictions…