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@legal.reuters.com reporter covering the business of law. d(dot)thomas(at)tr(dot)com, 646-823-0937. RTs not endorsements. DM for Signal.

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Iran tells world 'get ready for $200 a barrel' Iran fired at Israel and targets ​across the Middle East, demonstrating it can still fight back and disrupt energy supplies.

Iran's military command said on Wednesday the world should be prepared for oil to hit $200 a barrel, as three more ships came under attack in the blockaded Gulf. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

11.03.2026 13:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 15:59 👍 2228 🔁 178 💬 81 📌 46
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A federal judge in Sacramento, California sentenced lawyer Ari Lauer to more than 11 years in prison for his role in an estimated $912 million Ponzi scheme involving ​California solar power supply company DC Solar @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4rX77dn

11.03.2026 00:05 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

10.03.2026 21:58 👍 4371 🔁 1677 💬 230 📌 245
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 👍 6003 🔁 2595 💬 732 📌 1105
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Trump DOJ improperly installed New Jersey prosecutors, judge rules U.S. President Donald Trump's administration overstepped its authority by installing three prosecutors to lead New Jersey's U.S. Attorney's office without winning U.S. ​Senate confirmation, a federal ...

NEW from me: Trump overstepped his authority by installing 3 prosecutors to lead the NJ U.S. Attorney's office without winning U.S. ​Senate confirmation, a federal judge ruled on Monday, warning that ‌thousands of federal criminal cases could be dismissed as a result. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

09.03.2026 23:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on March 7 that Kari Lake's leadership of the US Agency for Global Media for much of last year violated federal law, invalidating actions she took to cut staff and end operations at Voice of America reut.rs/40l84zZ

09.03.2026 13:48 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

08.03.2026 22:52 👍 4999 🔁 1912 💬 318 📌 370
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Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

"The Wall Street Journal found that the Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002 to protect Americans, has turned its force against citizens."

08.03.2026 14:03 👍 247 🔁 57 💬 11 📌 5
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How Donald Trump is pushing the Supreme Court to weaken federal judges Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he and his allies have derided federal judges who ruled against his policies as "rogue," "crooked," "lunatic" and more, casting their ac...

The Trump administration has launched a more systematic effort at the U.S. Supreme Court to diminish the power of the federal judiciary, a Reuters analysis shows. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

07.03.2026 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Employment in the U.S. legal sector continued to grow in February, new data released by the Labor ​Department showed, reaching another historical high even as the broader economy shed jobs and ‌the unemployment rate increased @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4ueGFgT

07.03.2026 02:10 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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NY nonprofit loses lawsuit over non-lawyers giving free legal advice A New York nonprofit seeking to expand legal assistance to poor people cannot evade a state law barring ​non-lawyers from giving legal advice, a federal judge ruled.

A New York nonprofit seeking to expand legal assistance to poor people cannot evade a state law barring ​non-lawyers from giving legal advice, a federal judge ruled @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/46H4fca

07.03.2026 01:45 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

You know what sector did see job growth in February? Legal.

One of my latest for @legal.reuters.com here: www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

06.03.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US customs agency says tariff refund system will be ready in 45 days The U.S. customs agency ​is readying a system within 45 days to process refunds on U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs that were struck down ‌as illegal, a customs official said in a court filing on...

Affiliates of Nintendo and CVS became the ​latest large companies to sue for refunds on Friday. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

06.03.2026 19:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order The ​U.S. Customs and ‌Border Protection agency is ​unable to ​comply with a court ⁠order ​directing it to ​refund tariffs that the Supreme Court has ​ruled ​illegal, the agency said in a ‌court ⁠fili...

BREAKING: CBP is ​unable to ​comply with a court ⁠order ​directing it to ​refund tariffs that the Supreme Court has ​ruled ​illegal, the agency said in a ‌court ⁠filing with the U.S. Court for ​International ​Trade ⁠on Friday. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

06.03.2026 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 9632 🔁 2192 💬 90 📌 35
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‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out’: Illinois officials cheer Kristi Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security Noem’s ouster was celebrated by local officials and activists, who said good riddance to the woman who oversaw unprecedented immigration raids in the Chicago area.

"Spreading of lies"
"An incompetent leader"
"She will not be missed in Chicago."
"Don't let the door hit you on the way out"
Illinois officials cheer Kristi Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/t...

05.03.2026 21:46 👍 117 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0
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Exclusive: Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise' President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters ​in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operat...

"If they rise, they rise." www.reuters.com/business/ene...

06.03.2026 02:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reache...

U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

06.03.2026 02:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader disclose 2025 revenues ahead of law firms' merger @davidjthomas.bsky.social @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/3NiUcTU

05.03.2026 01:18 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lawyer at Tom Girardi's firm pleads guilty to contempt in client funds case A California attorney who worked with jailed former plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal contempt in connection with Girardi's failure to pay millions ​of dollars in...

A California attorney who worked with jailed former plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in connection with Girardi's failure to pay millions ​of dollars in client settlement funds @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4ldPMKK

06.03.2026 01:58 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: Trump tells Reuters US must have a role in choosing Iran's next leader Trump said in a ‌telephone interview that he thinks the next leader of Iran is unlikely to be the late Supreme Leader Khamenei's son, who has emerged as a frontrunner to succeed his father.

Trump told @reuters.com on Thursday the United States must be involved in choosing the next leader of Iran and said it ​would be "wonderful" if Iranian Kurdish forces based in Iraq were to cross into Iran to launch attacks on security forces there: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

06.03.2026 00:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lawyer at Tom Girardi's firm pleads guilty to contempt in client funds case A California attorney who worked with jailed former plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal contempt in connection with Girardi's failure to pay millions ​of dollars in client settlement funds.

A California attorney who worked with jailed former plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal contempt in connection with Girardi's failure to pay millions of dollars in client settlement funds.

05.03.2026 22:25 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

05.03.2026 02:45 👍 3041 🔁 1121 💬 2 📌 20
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Elon Musk to avert deposition about DOGE, dismantling US foreign aid agency Billionaire ​and former ‌Trump adviser Elon Musk will ​not ​have to sit ⁠for ​a deposition ​about his tenure leading the ​Department ​of Government Efficiency ‌and ⁠dismantling the U.S. Agency ​for ​International ⁠Development, a U.S. ​appeals ​court ⁠ruled on Wednesday.

Billionaire and former Trump adviser Elon Musk will not have to sit for a deposition about his tenure leading the Department of Government Efficiency and dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

04.03.2026 21:50 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 5
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JUST IN: Judge orders Trump administration to finalize goods entering US without assessing tariffs that were struck down reut.rs/4stb7Cn

04.03.2026 21:11 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 2

Both Chandler and Monica separately say they saw Donald Trump waiting for an elevator in Atlantic City, which is a key detail Joey uses to discern that C+M are seeing each other behind everyone's backs.

04.03.2026 18:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: US carried out strike on Iranian warship off Sri Lanka coast, officials say A U.S. official said a military submarine struck the ship.

Exclusive: US carried out strike on Iranian warship off Sri Lanka coast, officials say reut.rs/4reUk4F

04.03.2026 18:25 👍 24 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 2

This is a good list. I'm talking to a group of high school students next week about the media, and I have been thinking what movies/TV shows show journalism at its best (or worst), in case they ask me.

04.03.2026 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0