A federal judge quashed six grand jury subpoenas issued to Minnesota officials, finding the Justice Department used them to coerce cooperation with immigration enforcement and retaliate over opposition to Operation Metro Surge.
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The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance’s roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, a major step toward combining two historic Hollywood studios. State regulators, entertainment workers and European Union officials continue to scrutinize the deal.
Decarlos Brown Jr., accused of killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, has been found incompetent to stand trial for now. A judge ordered him hospitalized for treatment for four months before another competency hearing.
Xavier Becerra has advanced to the November election for California governor, while Steve Hilton and Tom Steyer remain in contention for the second slot. Millions of mail ballots are still being counted under California’s top-two primary system.
The Justice Department is investigating whether E. Jean Carroll committed perjury during her lawsuits against Donald Trump, focusing on undisclosed legal funding from billionaire Reid Hoffman. Carroll previously won multi-million dollar judgments against Trump for sexual assault and defamation.
The Justice Department is investigating the NFL's game licensing practices amid concerns over high subscription costs and anticompetitive tactics. The probe follows a Senate inquiry into whether the league's streaming packages violate antitrust laws.
The U.S. Justice Department admitted to mistakenly citing a May 2025 ICE memo to justify arrests at immigration courthouses, despite the memo explicitly excluding federal immigration courts where arrests have been made. This error, uncovered amid ongoing litigation by immigrant advocacy groups, has prompted a reconsideration of court rulings that previously upheld the practice. Despite the admission, DHS affirmed it will continue courthouse arrests, a policy criticized for its harsh impact on immigrants like Dylan Contreras, a student detained after a routine hearing.
The U.S. Justice Department and Michael Flynn have reached a financial settlement in Flynn’s lawsuit alleging wrongful prosecution, though the settlement terms were not disclosed. Flynn, who was charged in 2017 with making false statements to the FBI and later pardoned by President Trump, claimed the government targeted him politically due to his association with Trump’s 2016 campaign. Following the settlement, Flynn condemned what he called a "brazen attempt to weaponize federal law enforcement" and praised current Justice Department leaders for their accountability efforts.