CFTC sues New York gaming regulators over prediction markets crackdown
MANHATTAN (CN) — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday brought a civil lawsuit against the State of New York over the state’s efforts to regulate online prediction markets like Kalshi and Coinbase, where people can make prediction-based trades on the...
Chicago judge weighs appointing special prosecutor to investigate ICE
CHICAGO (CN) — A group of attorneys on Friday stressed to a Chicago judge that Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke was shirking her duties by failing to investigate ICE agents for possible crimes committed during Operation Midway Blitz in the...
Colorado woman sentenced to 30 years for managing funeral home with rotting bodies
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CN) — A state judge on Friday imposed a sentence of 30 years on a woman who managed the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose and Colorado Springs, Colorado, where at least 191 bodies were left to rot instead of being cremated or buried as...
Presidential power on trial as SCOTUS puts legal protections for migrants to the test
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court’s tenuous relationship with presidential power will be on trial next week as the justices review President Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally strip protections from migrants legally living in the U.S. Whether through...
Investors ignore fog of Iran war as Fed meeting looms
MANHATTAN (CN) — Wall Street has turned its focus from the ever-shifting ceasefires and blockades in the Strait of Hormuz back to interest rates and tariffs. With the Federal Reserve meeting next week — and the likelihood of a new Fed chair soon, as the Justice...
Arizona sues to block ICE facility near chemical warehouse
SURPRISE, Ariz. (CN) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the federal government Friday to stop the construction of an ICE detention facility just one mile from two public schools and across the street from a hazardous chemical storage facility. Standing...
DC Circuit rejects Trump bid to block asylum with ‘invasion’ proclamation
WASHINGTON (CN) — A D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump could not unilaterally block immigrants from seeking asylum and deport asylum-seekers already in the country by declaring an “invasion” at the southern border. The three-judge...
California, other states sue feds over air quality
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — California and a host of other states sued the Donald Trump administration on Friday, claiming it has failed to implement a key part of the Clean Air Act. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the act requires the U.S. Environmental...
Trump dispatches Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for new talks with Iran’s foreign minister
ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister, the White House said Friday, as officials in the South Asian nation pushed to revive ceasefire talks between the U.S....