Raúl Torrez

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog is reviewing a controversial DEA tactic in which agents permitted fentanyl to reach the streets to build cases against traffickers

Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California

Judge Bryan Biedscheid fined the company $567 million in his ruling Thursday, but he also prescribed steps to clean up what he described as its byproducts

Trump's AG pick Todd Blanche grilled over Epstein files and Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer

Torrez has primarily established a due date for federal prosecutors from the justice department and the US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York, leading to the Epstein investigation to allow access to whatever documents they had

Villegas had previously lived in Alamo, Texas, after coming to the United States from Mexico when she was 7 years old

The clash erupted after New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez accused the Trump administration of stonewalling the state's renewed criminal investigation into Epstein's activities at his sprawling ranch outside Santa Fe

Vance faces awkward questions on race, Epstein and deportations on The View

Michelle Lujan Grisham is demanding the federal government pay reparations after accusing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of allowing millions of fentanyl pills to flood her state during an undercover operation without notifying state or local officials

Meta last year rolled out technology to proactively find accounts they suspect to be teens, even if ​they list an adult birthday, and place them ​in Teen Account protections

Attorney General Raúl Torrez seeks billions in damages and major platform changes

The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accusing the social media giant of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on its platforms

The possibility emerged amid legal gamesmanship in the runup to a bench trial next week on allegations that Meta poses a public nuisance

She is among at least 10 girls and young women who have alleged they were groomed or assaulted at Zorro Ranch, Epstein’s gated compound, beginning in the late 1990s

In its demand, the administration gave Meta Platform Inc., parent company of Facebook, “48 hours to confirm receipt of the letter and seven calendar days to submit a detailed implementation plan” against recent viral fake news on the oil crisis and the President’s health

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and advises parents, students and teachers on how to manage screen time

Internal Meta documents revealed staff warned execs about child safety risks

Jurors will take up the case after the arguments and six weeks of testimony from scores of witnesses that included teachers, psychiatric experts, state investigators, top Meta officials and whistleblowers that left the company

Jurors heard closing arguments after six weeks of testimony from scores of witnesses that included local teachers, psychiatric experts, state investigators, top Meta officials and whistleblowers who left the company

Flown in from around the country to the gated compound, they rode horses across a mesa dotted with ancient rock carvings

Epstein’s so-called Zorro Ranch came into sharper relief after his 10 August 2019 death in jail awaiting trial, with criminal and civil proceedings revealing that numerous alleged abuses unfolded there

The comments, revealed March 4-5, 2026, in a New Mexico courtroom, came as prosecutors played excerpts from Zuckerberg's pretrial deposition to support allegations that Meta violated state consumer protection laws by failing to adequately disclose or mitigate risks of child sexual exploitation and mental health damage on its services

The U.S. Justice Department on January 30 made public millions of Epstein-related files in the latest release that sheds new light on the financier's criminal activities in New Mexico over three decades

Legislators are also urging local residents to testify