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Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, returned to a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Thursday as their high-profile criminal case in the United States continued to unfold. The pair, who were taken into U.S. custody during a pre-dawn military operation in Caracas in January, have both pleaded not guilty to a […]

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous decision siding with Cox Communications, ruling that internet service providers are not legally responsible for copyright violations committed by their users. The case stemmed from a long-running dispute between Cox and a coalition of record labels led by Sony Music Entertainment. The music industry had argued that Cox […]

A Los Angeles jury has delivered a major verdict in the trial examining whether major tech platforms can be held accountable for childhood social media harm linked to their products. Jurors concluded that Meta and YouTube were negligent in how they designed and operated their platforms, siding with a 20-year-old plaintiff identified as K.G.M., also […]

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle after more than a year in detention, marking the occasion during Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that concludes Ramadan. The decision followed appeals from his family and a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court, which determined his time in custody was sufficient. Coyle, a 64-year-old researcher from […]