White House isn’t ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden after his conviction
President Joe Biden definitively ruled out pardoning his son during an ABC News interview last week.
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Elon Musk drops lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI without explanation
Musk in February sued the San Francisco artificial intelligence company and its CEO Sam Altman over what he said was a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.
House moves to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for withholding Biden audio
The contempt action represents House Republicans’ latest and strongest rebuke of the Justice Department and of Garland’s leadership, playing out against the backdrop of an extraordinary conflict over the rule of law that has animated the 2024 presidential campaign.
Missouri executes former Indiana man convicted of killing ex-lover and her husband
David Hosier, 69, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. following a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Hosier was convicted of the 2009 killings of Angela and Rodney Gilpin in the state capital of Jefferson City.
Federal watchdog investigating UAW president Shawn Fain, who rose from union leadership in Kokomo
Fain, a Kokomo native, is under investigation by a court-appointed watchdog who has been working to stamp out corruption at the union in the wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago.
Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording
The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness.”
Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial
The son of President Joe Biden was found guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
Iowa defends immigration law that allows local officials to arrest people told to leave US
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of civil rights groups are seeking a temporary or permanent injunction of the law, which goes into effect July 1 unless it’s blocked by the courts.
Donald Trump tells anti-abortion Christian group in Indy to stand up for ‘innocent life’
The former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s pre-recorded message praised the work of those attending the event hosted by The Danbury Institute, which is meeting in Indianapolis in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
UPDATE: Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial begin deliberating
It’s the first of two trials Hunter Biden faces in the midst of his Democratic father’s reelection campaign. The younger Biden is also charged with failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes in a case scheduled to go to trial in September.
Supreme Court will take up Meta’s bid to end lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will consider shutting down a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
Antitrust enforcers to investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI
U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions.
The ACLU is making plans to fight Trump’s promises of immigrant raids and mass deportations
The American Civil Liberties Union filed legal challenges against former President Donald Trump ‘s administration more than 400 times during his time in the White House, helping to halt an array of policies, including separating immigrant children from their parents.
Trump ally Steve Bannon must surrender to prison by July 1 to start contempt sentence, judge says
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol insurrection, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Back from France, the first lady attends Hunter Biden’s gun trial as prosecution wraps up
Federal prosecutors aimed to wrap up their gun case against Hunter Biden on Friday with two final witnesses in their effort to prove that the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form when he said he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
Man charged with killing Indiana police officer dies in prison while awaiting trial
A man charged with fatally shooting an Indiana police officer in the head in 2022 died Thursday at a state prison, authorities said.
Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum
Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn’t too late.
Jurors in Hunter Biden trial hear more from the clerk who sold him the gun at the center of the case
Jurors in Hunter Biden’s criminal trial on Thursday are hearing more from the former gun store clerk who sold him the .38-caliber Colt revolver at the center of the case.
Hunter Biden’s exes are called as witnesses in his federal gun trial
Prosecutors are seeking to show the depths of Hunter Biden’s drug problem, which they say was still going on when he filled out a form to buy a firearm.
Prosecutors want Donald Trump to remain under a gag order until his sentencing
Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo told Judge Juan M. Merchan in a letter that the Manhattan DA’s office opposes any immediate termination of the gag order, which bars Trump from commenting about witnesses, jurors and others tied to the case — but not the judge himself.