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Long Island police said Steven Schwally, 64, was drunk and speeding when he crashed an SUV into a nail salon Friday, killing an off-duty NYPD officer and three other people.

Brazil's national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.

A new report, produced jointly by Kent and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), aims to shed light on the experience of victims of ransomware and identify several key factors that typically shape these experiences.

The US Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a ruling on the constitutional validity of a pair of Republican-backed laws that imposed restrictions on social media content moderation, sending legal challenges backed by tech platforms to lower courts for review.

A new law took effect Monday in Tennessee that requires GPS monitoring of the most violent domestic offenders.

Former President Trump is trying to overturn his recent felony conviction in the New York "hush money" criminal case.

Under the agreement, U.S. immigration officials will train and provide assistance to Panamanian authorities to help them carry out more deportations of migrants heading north.

Today, the Supreme Court made it pretty clear that websites have First Amendment rights to do content moderation as they see fit, but decided to send the cases challenging laws in Florida and Texas…

The court also says the President is now above the law.

We keep pointing out that, contrary to the uninformed opinion of lawmakers across both major parties, laws that require age verification are clearly unconstitutional*. * Offer not valid in the 5th …

I was worried after oral argument in the NetChoice cases that we were going to get a mess of a decision. Maybe it would give us the right result (the Florida and Texas laws remaining canceled), but…

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The Supreme Court's landmark decision ruled that Trump is immune from prosecution for official acts he took while in office.

Rep. Victoria Spartz is facing a weapons charge after her office confirmed she had an unloaded handgun in her suitcase while going through security at a Virginia airport.

The court issued a ruling in two cases about Texas’ and Florida’s social media laws.

It impacts the future of the election interference case.

Border Patrol processed approximately 84,000 migrants in June, the lowest monthly level since President Biden took office.

Meta could face fines of more than $10 billion.

Congress is pressing Amazon to share more information about its safety record—from warehouses to delivery drivers—but some workers' rights advocacy groups say lawmakers aren't moving fast enough.