Topic: Law & Courts — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-02 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 1, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
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[2026-05-02 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: For two men whose companies promise to remake civilisation, the opening day was strangely pedestrian. The microphones in a federal courtroom in downtown Oakland kept cutting out. A presentation slide vanished from the screens. “We can’t hear you,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said, before drily observing that the federal judiciary would happily accept additional taxpayer funds.
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[2026-05-02 04:55 UTC+10:00] [Northern Ireland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Police say New IRA may have been behind attack on Dunmurry station as suspect due in court
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[2026-05-02 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm’s parents are attempting to have his lawsuit against them dismissed, The Athletic reported, citing Philadelphia court documents.
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[2026-05-02 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kylie Jenner is being sued by a second housekeeper who is claiming in a new lawsuit that she was mistreated by staff members while working under the reality star.
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[2026-05-02 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ben Harris, far left, and David Chaney, far right, sit with their attorneys as they wait for the start of a hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse on Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (Jake Ramsey/Oklahoma Watch via AP)
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[2026-05-02 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person walks past a voting sign during the first day of early voting for the primary elections at the Dunwoody Library in Atlanta, Monday, April 27, 2026. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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[2026-05-02 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The status of the pact was first put in doubt after the Supreme Court ruled the president lacked legal authority for his duties on EU goods
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[2026-05-02 03:00 UTC+10:00] [Eurostat] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The status of the pact was first put in doubt after the Supreme Court ruled the president lacked legal authority for his duties on EU goods
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[2026-05-02 02:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump’s administration isn’t giving up its fight against congestion pricing.
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[2026-05-02 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: I got romantically involved with a co-worker who happens to be married, and our relationship lasted for three years. When his wife found out, she reported the matter to our company, hoping that the both of us would be terminated from employment. Our company has yet to issue any memorandum regarding the issue, but I just want know if it is possible for employees to be validly dismissed from work on account of their personal affairs.
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[2026-05-02 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LONDON (AP) — Graham Linehan, the co-creator of TV sitcoms “Father Ted” and the “IT Crowd,” on Friday had his conviction for damaging the mobile phone of a teenage transgender activist overturned.
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[2026-05-02 01:43 UTC+10:00] [United States Politics and Government] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: How Conservatives on the Supreme Court Weakened the Voting Rights Act2:13
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[2026-05-02 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Several UK-based law professors have explained their decision to submit a letter to the Court of Appeal in support of the proscribed direct action group Palestine Action, as the court began hearing a government bid to keep the group banned under UK terror laws.
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[2026-05-02 01:15 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar defended his decision to pick his brother-in-law as justice minister Friday, calling the lawyer’s professional competence “unquestionable.”
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[2026-05-02 01:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Lawyers acting for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic are awaiting a decision by a UN court on their bid to release him from jail in The Hague on the grounds he is near the end of his life.
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[2026-05-02 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Woolworths] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The seven-day trial in the watchdog’s case against the supermarket offered a rare glimpse into its internal machinations
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[2026-05-02 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Rebel Wilson] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Wilson is not the first high profile respondent to change her wardrobe for court, but fashion can also help plaintiffs express themselves when speech is constrained
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[2026-05-02 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Acquaintances of Sunshine Stewart sit on the bow of a lobster boat during a memorial service for the slain paddleboarder, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, off the coast of St. George, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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[2026-05-02 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had no ties with an alleged corruption scheme whose trial has rocked the left-wing government, a key defendant in the case told a court on Thursday.
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[2026-05-02 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A South African court has ruled that the remains of the late Zambian president Edgar Lungu be placed in a "mutually agreed mortuary" in Pretoria.
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[2026-05-02 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: 1903 — 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker riding Judge Himes wins in 2:09.
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[2026-05-01 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Wall Street financier Chirayu Rana, the anonymous ‘John Doe’ who filed a sensational—and fiercely disputed—sexual harassment lawsuit against a JPMorgan Chase executive has left investment firm Bregal Sagemount, senior company sources have told The Post.
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[2026-05-01 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Netherland’s Princess Amalia arrives for the abdication and enthronement ceremony of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg at the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg, on Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)
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[2026-05-01 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Taylor Frankie Paul hugged Dakota Mortensen’s mom in court Thursday after the exes’ hearing.
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[2026-05-01 22:31 UTC+10:00] [Crime] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Judge tells Nancy Pexton, 70, she showed no remorse for the ferocious attack on Jennifer Abbott at London flat
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[2026-05-01 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Co-founder of clothing firm Superdry James Holder, is escorted by a police officer as he leaves Cirencester Magistrates’ Court, England, Friday, May 1 , 2026. (Rod Minchin/PA via AP)
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[2026-05-01 22:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Rep. Max Miller confirmed their client fabricated testimony in court documents and during a court hearing to obtain a protection order against his ex-wife, prompting her attorneys to demand sanctions.
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[2026-05-01 21:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail first broke the story earlier this week about a former JPMorgan staffer who claimed that an executive director on JPM's leveraged finance team turned him into a "sex slave" by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra, according to a bombshell lawsuit. However, it now appears that the sexual harassment suit was "fabricated," according to a new report.
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[2026-05-01 20:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Wyoming city councilman is facing backlash after posting a comment suggesting the state should “hang bad judges” in response to a court ruling on abortion, later insisting the remark was “not a threat.”
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[2026-05-01 20:46 UTC+10:00] [Crime] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Court heard woman asked businessman to stop but he did not, even when she started crying
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[2026-05-01 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “Big Brother is watching you” is no longer a fictional admonition.
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei has said Tehran has maintained engagement with the United States, while warning the country will respond if its sovereignty is challenged.
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[2026-05-01 19:43 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Rebel Wilson has made an explosive claim in court that her concerns about a film producer intensified after UK-based singer-songwriter and actor FKA Twigs told her about her own “troubling” experience of bullying and harassment by the same executive.
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[2026-05-01 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Victorian taxpayers would fork out more to pay for the political advertisements and campaign activities of parliamentarians under a government proposal to plug the hole in the state’s electoral laws created by last month’s High Court decision.
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[2026-05-01 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The Chinese owned company which owns Darwin port has launched international legal action. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)
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[2026-05-01 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: How Conservatives on the Supreme Court Weakened the Voting Rights Act2:13
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[2026-05-01 18:46 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: A teacher allegedly took a camera from his principal's office and hid it after a cleaner found the device inside a primary school bathroom.The claims were aired at Moorabbin Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon as Timothy Blamires, 33, was refused bail.Police will allege a camera was found at Kingswood Primary School, at Dingley Village in Melbourne's south-east, on Tuesday, with Blamires arrested at the school later that day.READ MORE: Police warning to associates of suspected child killerTimothy Blamires.
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[2026-05-01 18:14 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A lawyer representing an all-boys Catholic school on Brisbane’s northside says claims of a history of misogyny are irrelevant to a teacher’s allegations she was surrounded and pelted with food by hundreds of boys while working there three years ago.
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[2026-05-01 17:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: The European Union's mammoth trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur provisionally enters into force Friday, despite a pending court ruling on its legality.
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[2026-05-01 17:47 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A man accused of ramming a synagogue’s gate in an alleged anti-Semitic attack and later referencing the Bondi shootings will undergo a psychiatric assessment for his bail application.
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[2026-05-01 17:17 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The state’s top prosecutor has accused an inquiry of “looking for a basis” to make adverse findings against her, as she denied involvement in her office giving information to a media outlet, which sparked a negative story about a judge.
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[2026-05-01 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Racing] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Reece Jones thought he might lose the ride on Vivy Air following a troubled run in the Doncaster then missing a trial leading into the Ciaron Maher-trained mare’s Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) tilt on Saturday.
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[2026-05-01 16:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Charlotte MacInnes is suing Hollywood star Rebel Wilson. (ABC News: Abubakr Sajid)
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[2026-05-01 16:55 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Authorities have launched fresh legal action against former union boss and Labor Party powerbroker Diana Asmar over allegations she threatened to kill a whistleblower and smear or sack three others she blamed for raising concerns over claims millions of dollars were misappropriated from the Health Workers Union.
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[2026-05-01 16:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Legal Profession
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[2026-05-01 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A suspected illegal migrant from the Dominican Republic with a deportation order and an Interpol Red Notice related to a homicide case in his home country was released by a judge appointed by former President Joe Biden, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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[2026-05-01 16:32 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Racing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: 1. Tenenbaum is very short in betting on the back of an impressive first-up win at Wyong over the Black Opal runner-up, so there’s a bit of depth to that win. Ticked over well winning a trial and 1400m on his home track looks ideal. The one to beat, but the market tells us that anyway.
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[2026-05-01 16:09 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Chinese firm that controls the Port of Darwin has launched an international legal battle against Australia in a dramatic escalation of its fight to maintain a controversial long-term lease of the strategically significant asset.
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[2026-05-01 15:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: David Nadi Lamie Moussa's 72-year-old father was killed in the incident. (ABC News: West Matteeussen)
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