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* The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Monday sought to establish a key element of its public case against former President Trump--that he knew his claims of [...]

* The Jan. 6 committee will rely on recorded testimony from former Trump officials and even family members of the ex-president as it uses its first prime-time hearing to connect [...]

* The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the convictions of a pair of doctors who were found to have been running opioid 'pill mills,' a case where the justices [...]

* The Department of Justice's (DOJ) apparent new focus on Donald Trump in its Jan. 6 investigation presents prosecutors with multiple possible paths to an indictment, as sketched out by [...]

* The House committee investigating the Jan. 6,2021, attack on the Capitol was able to offer additional damning evidence against Donald Trump in its final hearing for the summer, ramping [...]

* An attorney representing Stephen Bannon, the former Trump adviser charged with unlawfully defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, suggested to a [...]

* The Justice Department's decision not to charge former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows or deputy communications director Dan Scavino with contempt of Congress is sending mixed messages [...]

* Federal prosecutors on Monday added seditious conspiracy to the list of charges five Proud Boys leaders are facing over their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on [...]

* The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a long-running case that would decide the fate of a renowned work of art stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish [...]

* A federal judge on Monday questioned former President Trump's claims of 'absolute immunity' in the face of a trio of civil lawsuits accusing him of fomenting the Capitol riot [...]

* Attorney General William Barr came under blistering criticism from Democrats on Tuesday over a series of decisions he has made as President Trump's leader at the Department of Justice [...]

* The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided along ideological lines Tuesday over the question of whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency seen as a [...]

* The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in a case that could be the culmination of Wall Street's 10-year battle against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), [...]

* Former President Trump and the Jan. 6 select committee will face off in court on Tuesday over whether he can use executive privilege claims to block lawmakers from obtaining [...]

* Federal judges are weighing legal challenges to one of the leading felony charges that government lawyers have brought in Capitol riot cases, potentially setting the stage for protracted legal [...]

* Former President Trump is facing significant legal hurdles in his ongoing effort to keep his tax returns away from Congress now that he's a private citizen and the Justice [...]

* President Biden has set an aggressive judicial agenda in his first five months, rapidly nominating a group of potential judges with an unprecedented emphasis on racial, professional and gender [...]

* Tech companies that publicly promote their privacy practices are coming under scrutiny for handing over metadata on lawmakers, congressional staffers, journalists and even a minor in response to subpoenas [...]

* Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) legal and political woes are intensifying as his former associate pleaded guilty on Monday to sex trafficking a minor and agreed to cooperate with federal [...]

* Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are set to testify on Wednesday on the administration's efforts to crack down on domestic extremism as Congress is [...]

* President Biden's Justice Department is struggling to quickly resolve some of the high-profile court cases it inherited from the Trump administration concerning congressional demands for executive branch information. The [...]

* The Senate on Wednesday narrowly voted 51-49 to confirm Vanita Gupta, President Biden's nominee for the No. 3 position at the Department of Justice (DOJ), despite stiff opposition from [...]

* Kristen Clarke, President Biden's nominee to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division, faced attacks from Senate Republicans on Wednesday amid growing national tensions over police killings of Black [...]

* President Biden on Tuesday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill Merrick Garland's open seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in his first slate of judicial nominations, instantly [...]

* Two men were arrested and charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The two men--Julian Elie Khater, [...]

* President Biden's pick for the No. 3 position at the Department of Justice (DOJ) apologized on Tuesday for her past 'harsh rhetoric' as she faced an icy reception from [...]

* A federal appeals court on Tuesday delivered a mixed ruling for net neutrality supporters and opponents alike, allowing the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) 2017 repeal to stand but striking [...]

* Facebook, Google and Twitter tried to assure skeptical senators on Wednesday that they are improving their efforts to find and remove violent and hateful content on their platforms. The [...]

* A coalition of 50 attorneys general will be investigating Google for potential violations of antitrust law, a step that could at some point lead to a broad legal challenge [...]

* President Trump on Tuesday morning said his administration will 'take a look' into any ties between Google and China after billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, a supporter of the [...]

* A roughly $5 billion reported settlement between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to close an investigation into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal is angering Democrats and tech [...]

* Two Republican senators are asking federal regulators to conduct an inquiry into how the social media industry curates content. Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a [...]

* Consumer advocates are pushing for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to come down hard on YouTube's handling of children's privacy as regulators approach a potential settlement with the video-sharing [...]

* The White House said on Wednesday that it will hold a social media summit next month amid President Trump's fresh attacks against internet platforms over allegations of anti-conservative bias. [...]

* Congress on Tuesday opened an investigation into tech companies and antitrust issues with a hearing on how the industry has upended the business model of the news media and [...]

* The House Intelligence Committee has slated a hearing in June that will examine a series of national security matters, including the threat of videos manipulated by artificial intelligence (AI) [...]

* Europe's sweeping data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is facing tough questions at its one-year mark as regulators and industry giants intensify the fight over its [...]

* Ireland's data protection regulator is launching an investigation into allegations that Google's online advertising system is revealing sensitive data about users to hundreds of potential ad buyers in violation [...]

* The Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission indicated on Monday that it would approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger after the two companies agreed to spin off Boost Mobile and submit to other [...]

* Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) squared off with a top Trump administration bank regulator on Wednesday over his decision to keep parts of the agency's oversight of Wells Fargo confidential. [...]

* The Supreme Court on Monday said that iPhone users can proceed with a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its control of app sales in a ruling that could threaten [...]

* The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urged Congress on Wednesday to pass data privacy legislation and beef up the agency's authority to police large tech companies. At a hearing before [...]

* Pressure is growing for federal regulators to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally accountable for his company's string of privacy scandals. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is wrapping up [...]

* T-Mobile and Sprint are facing growing uncertainty about the fate of their $26 billion merger a year after the deal was first announced. On Monday, the anniversary of the [...]

* The House on Wednesday voted to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules prohibiting internet service providers from interfering with web traffic. The bill passed by a 232-190 vote, mostly along [...]

* The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday told Congress that it only has 40 fulltime employees dedicated to overseeing internet privacy and data security and requested lawmakers give the [...]

* Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg raised eyebrows over the weekend with a call for regulating internet giants, but his proposals are facing skepticism from the social network's critics. Regulators, lawmakers [...]

* The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a controversial copyright law that will force online platforms such as Google and Facebook to filter out content that could be considered a [...]

* A bill to reinstate the Obama administration's net neutrality rules passed its first legislative hurdle on Tuesday as a House panel voted to advance the measure. Democrats pushed the [...]

* The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is being scrutinized over its claims that its deregulatory agenda has led to record gains in the private sector's efforts to expand access to [...]