Brothers involved in fake iPhone swapping at Apple Stores were sentenced to federal prison

It’s normally pretty easy to get your broken iPhone replaced at Apple’s Genius Bar under your AppleCare plan, but a (criminally) enterprising sibling duo found a way to trick the system by swapping counterfeit devices with real ones. Unfortunately for them, they got caught in 2019 attempting to exchange 10,000 fake Apple products over the … Read more

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump’s presidency

CHICAGO (AP) — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off. During a Dec. 9, 2020, call to the White House, Dershowitz told … Read more

Trump’s war on federal agencies — fueled by his judges — reaches the Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s top lawyer put it bluntly when speaking at a conservative conference five years ago: The goal was to name judges who would help further the administration’s deregulation agenda. “There is a coherent plan here where actually the judicial selection and the deregulatory effort are really the flip side of … Read more

Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election subversion case

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president’s claims that her past comments raise doubts about whether she can be fair. Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned … Read more

Federal judge again strikes down California law banning high capacity gun magazines

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California cannot ban gun owners from having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, a federal judge ruled Friday. The decision from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez won’t take effect immediately. Democratic U.S. Attorney General Rob Bonta has already promised to appeal the ruling. The ban is likely to remain … Read more

Jim Jordan makes false claims about Trump, Hunter Biden to start listening to on dealing with of the federal circumstances in opposition to them

Home Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan made false claims in his opening remarks at a Wednesday listening to at which Jordan and different Republicans pressed Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland concerning the Justice Division’s dealing with of investigations into former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Here’s a truth verify of … Read more

Mark Meadows fails in bid to maneuver Georgia election case to federal court docket

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Fees towards Donald Trump’s onetime chief of employees Mark Meadows over efforts to reverse the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election won’t be heard in federal court docket, an indication that comparable bids by the previous U.S. president and his co-defendants to maneuver the prison case to a extra favorable venue … Read more

Trump’s feedback threat tainting a jury in federal election subversion case, particular counsel says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Division particular counsel Jack Smith warned Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s “day by day” statements threat tainting a jury pool in Washington within the felony case charging him with scheming to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s provocative feedback about each Smith’s group and U.S. District Decide … Read more

A information to federal pupil mortgage forgiveness and reimbursement

With a cumulative federal pupil mortgage debt of $1.6 trillion held by greater than 45 million debtors — an virtually unfathomable determine shared periodically by the federal authorities — the nation and its post-graduate debtors are pining for some reduction.  Pupil mortgage forgiveness has been a scorching congressional matter, peaking in response to the added … Read more

AI-generated artwork can’t be copyrighted, guidelines a US Federal Choose

Thaler had tried a number of occasions to copyright the picture “as a work-for-hire to the proprietor of the Creativity Machine,” which might have listed the writer because the creator of the work and Thaler because the art work’s proprietor, however he was repeatedly rejected. After the Workplace’s ultimate rejection final 12 months, Thaler sued … Read more