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As many as 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents six years after they were forcibly separated at the US border, according to a new report. The 135-page report from Human Rights Watch, the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at

Irish lawyer Gail Slater has been appointed by the incoming Trump administration to lead the antitrust division in the US Department of Justice. Ms Slater hails from Dalkey, Co Dublin and graduated from UCD Sutherland School of Law. She is a dual US-Irish citizen and has lived in the US since 2003.

President Joe Biden has granted a controversial pardon to his son Hunter, who was convicted of gun and tax offences. In two separate trials, the younger Mr Biden admitted failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, and lying about his history of drug use in order to obtain a

US government lawyers have asked a judge to order Google owner Alphabet to sell its Chrome web browser and potentially also its Android mobile operating system. The US Department of Justice has proposed the remedies to Judge Amit Mehta following his ruling in August, in which he declared that Google

A judge has blocked a law requiring schools and universities in Louisiana to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom pending the outcome of a legal challenge. The preliminary injunction follows legal proceedings taken by a multi-faith group of nine Louisiana families with children in public

Former Trump lawyer and mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani must give his Manhattan penthouse, car and other valuables to election workers he defamed after the 2020 election. He has been ordered to hand over assets to mother and daughter pair Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, including a collection of rare w

The US has introduced a new "click-to-cancel" rule aimed at making it easier for customers to cancel subscriptions and free trials. The new rule, introduced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and set to come into force in six months' time, follows a series of high-profile lawsuits the regulator h

TikTok is facing a fresh lawsuit in the US over the video-sharing platform's alleged harm to children's mental health and well-being. A coalition of 13 states and Washington, D.C., co-led by California and New York, has filed separate enforcement actions against TitTok for alleged violations of stat

Missouri has executed a convicted murderer who maintained his innocence for more than two decades, despite last-minute appeals from both defence and prosecution lawyers for a delay. Marcellus Williams, 55, was already serving a lengthy prison sentence for burglary offences when he was convicted in 2

Rudy Giuliani, former federal prosecutor, New York City mayor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, has been disbarred in the state after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Mr Trump's 2020 election loss. The decision, handed down by a New York Appeals Court in Manhattan, states tha

Alabama is to test a controversial new method of execution on a death row prisoner who previously survived a botched lethal injection. Kenneth Smith, 58, was sentenced to death after being convicted, along with a co-defendant, for his role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett.

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he defamed in relation to his baseless claims of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The former prosecutor and New York mayor has debts of $151.8 milli

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he defamed in relation to his baseless claims of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Among his public claims about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were that t

A dozen people who were convicted of witchcraft in the 17th century, most of whom were subsequently executed, have been exonerated in the US state of Connecticut. A resolution recognising the convictions and executions as a "miscarriage of justice" was approved by the Connecticut State Senate in a 3

A court order which would have banned access to abortion pills across the United States has been stayed by the country's Supreme Court pending further appeals. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a conservative judge in Texas, had this month ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke its long-