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  Chinese Exile Guo Gets 30 Years For $1.4B Fraud

  By Stewart Bishop

  Exiled Chinese businessman and dissident Miles Guo on Monday was sentenced to 30 years in prison, after a Manhat...(read more)

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  NBA Vet Beasley Among Latest Indicted In Gambling Dragnet

  By Alex Lawson

  Former NBA guard Malik Beasley has been indicted in the government's sprawling sports betting investigation, New...(read more)

• BREAKING: EEOC Scraps Long-Standing Affirmative Action Guidance

  By Anne Cullen

  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday it had rescinded several decades-old guidance documents relating to voluntary workplace affirmative action plans, concluding the prior positions were out of step with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

• Justices Will Hear Challenges To Semiautomatic Rifle Bans

  By Aaron Keller and Celeste Bott

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted Second Amendment challenges to semiautomatic rifle bans in Cook County, Illinois and the state of Connecticut, combining two cases to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess AR-15-style weapons.

• Digital Realty Pays $3.5B For Blackstone Data Center Shares

  By Nate Beck

  Digital Realty will pay $3.5 billion to acquire a stake in three Blackstone data centers fully leased to hyperscalers in northern Virginia, according to an announcement from the companies.

• Apple Gets Get High Court Review Of Epic Case Sanctions

  By Bryan Koenig

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

• Trump Loses Bid To Remove Copyright Office Leader For Now

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to let the Trump administration remove U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter for now, leaving in place a D.C. Circuit order that allows her to keep leading the office while her lawsuit challenging her firing proceeds.

• UK 'Minded To Intervene' In Paramount's Warner Bros. Deal

  By Tom Fish

  The U.K. government warned Tuesday it could interrupt Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery over concerns the deal could reduce media plurality and affect the range of news and entertainment services available to British audiences.

• High Court Scraps Caps On Coordinated Campaign Spending

  By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.

• Trump Taps Just Confirmed La. Judge For 5th Circ.

  By Courtney Bublé

  Judge Anna St. John has been on the federal bench for less than four months, and now she's being elevated to a higher court.

• Justices Allow States To Bar Trans Athletes From Girls' Sports

  By Alex Lawson

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for states to ban transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls' sports, ruling that the restrictions do not amount to discrimination on the basis of sex.

• High Court Gives Fed Independence A 'Fragile' Reprieve

  By Jon Hill

  The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown its weight behind Federal Reserve independence by rejecting President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, but experts say the fight over central bank control may not be finished — just moving to a new phase.

• Ex-SVB Exec Concedes 'Excessive Risks' As FDIC Trial Opens

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Silicon Valley Bank's former chief financial officer testified Monday during the first day of a California federal bench trial over the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s claims that the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, acknowledging under examination SVB took on sustained "excessive risks" under the bank's own definition months before it collapsed.

• Volatility May Follow As Justices Make Agency Firings Easier​​​​​​​

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The policies and enforcement priorities of federal agencies may fluctuate more rapidly based on who is president, as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's Monday decision finding that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, experts told Law360.