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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifying during a Senate committee hearing on June 25, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) LAST WEEK, AFTER MONTHS of threatening to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump signaled he was backing off. Trump’s rationale—or pretext, if you prefer—for going after Powell is cost overruns and delays in the $2.5 …

A US appeals court has ruled that the man convicted in the 1979 murder and disappearance of a six-year-old boy in New York City should receive a new trial, or be released. Etan Patz’s disappearance on his way to a school bus stop in Manhattan rattled the city, and became one of the most prominent national missing children’s cases in …

MIAMI (AP) — Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts Monday, raising a question about the billionaire that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on U.S. roads or throw up a major roadblock: Can this wildly successful man who tends to exaggerate really be trusted? In Miami, a Tesla driver who has admitted he was wrong …

A New York federal appeals court Monday ruled that the former bodega stock clerk convicted in the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz should receive a new trial or be released from custody. Pedro Hernandez in Manhattan criminal court in New York in 2012. Louis Lanzano / AP file Pedro Hernandez, 64, was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping …

Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dade County, Florida’s southern district is the wrong venue for the …

Harvard University appeared in federal court Monday in a pivotal case in its battle with the Trump administration, as the storied institution argued the government illegally cut $2.6 billion in federal funding. If U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs decides in the university’s favor, the ruling would reverse a series of funding freezes that later became outright cuts as the administration …

Court Orders New Trial for Man Convicted in Killing of Etan Patz  The New York Times Source link

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University appeared in federal court Monday in a pivotal case in its battle with the Trump administration, as the storied institution argued the government illegally cut $2.6 billion in federal funding. President Donald Trump’s administration has battered the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university with sanctions for months as it presses a series of demands on the …

Crucial Court Hearing Begins in Harvard Case Against Trump  The New York Times What to expect as Harvard takes on the Trump administration in federal court  CNN Lawyers for Harvard and Trump square off in court in Boston  NPR Harvard and Trump lawyers take funding fight to court  BBC Trump administration live updates: Judge hears arguments in Harvard University suit over research funding cuts  NBC …

Students walk through Harvard Yard. Jesse Costa/WBUR hide caption toggle caption Jesse Costa/WBUR Lawyers for Harvard University will argue in federal court on Monday that the federal government’s freeze of more than $2 billion in grants and contracts is illegal and should be reversed. In filings in U.S. District Court in Boston, Harvard’s attorneys say the federal funding cuts imposed …