Heavy monsoon rains have helped to relieve the Southwest’s historic drought, but water officials say the deluge isn’t enough to reverse a drying trend that has depleted the region’s primary water sources.

Holland & Knight is a major law firm with roots in Florida and Texas, a small army of lobbyists, attorneys who have run for public office and a political action committee that spends nearly half-a-million dollars per election cycle.

Former members of Joe Biden’s commission on the Supreme Court say their work had value even though the president hasn’t yet backed any changes in the eight months since they submitted the final report.

An Apple Inc. AirPods patent-infringement case, deemed a mistrial soon after a California jury began deliberating, was caused by one juror’s internet research and another’s surgery on a pair of earbuds to demonstrate the obviousness of a disputed invention, court filings show.

Starbucks Corp., facing a growing union push across its cafes, is appealing to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that government employees interfered with and influenced election results in certain stores.

Rudy Giuliani is a target of a Georgia criminal probe of potential election fraud. The former New York mayor, who was a lead lawyer in former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, is scheduled to testify Wednesday before a grand jury in Atlanta investigating possible efforts to interfere with Georgia’s vote.