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Missouri Republicans are renewing their effort to dismantle the state's 86-year-old nonpartisan system for selecting appellate and Supreme Court judges, following state Supreme Court rulings that rejected a Trump-backed congressional…
2026-10-15 · 4 MIN READBrazil's Supreme Court authorized Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro on Monday to resume visits to his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, after the 90-day suspension on those visits expired Sunday. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the ruling…
2026-10-12 · 5 MIN READPresident Trump personally pushed for the creation of taxpayer-funded television ads promoting himself and was involved in their production, The Wall Street Journal has reported, as a federal judge ordered the spots halted late Sunday…
2026-10-12 · 4 MIN READPrediction-market wagers on the outcome of criminal trials are drawing scrutiny from courts and defense lawyers, with bettors staking money on jury verdicts in cases from Massachusetts to Utah and the federal courthouse in Manhattan. One…
2026-10-11 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration on Friday said it has begun facilitating the return to the United States of Ahmed Soliman, an Egyptian man it deported earlier this year to Equatorial Guinea, in a rare instance of the government working to reverse…
2026-10-09 · 3 MIN READBrazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro on Thursday, less than three weeks before an Oct. 25 presidential runoff between his brother, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of Rio de Janeiro, and…
2026-10-09 · 3 MIN READWinston Lee, one of seven men accused in the alleged 2024 gang rape of a Cornell University student, asked a judge Friday to remove New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case, according to a UPI report.
2026-10-09 · 3 MIN READCurtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in Mississippi prisons and on death row before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, died Wednesday at his home at age 56, his family confirmed Thursday…
2026-10-08 · 3 MIN READA Tennessee judge on Wednesday ordered the state Department of Correction to preserve all evidence from the failed execution of death-row inmate Christa Pike, including anything that was in the execution room and the lethal-injection drugs…
2026-10-07 · 3 MIN READLeon Botstein, who had led Bard College for 50 years and recently stepped down as president, resigned Wednesday from all Bard-affiliated positions — including his professorship and roles in Bard's music programs — after Reps. Jamie Raskin…
2026-10-07 · 5 MIN READA Nashville judge ordered Tennessee officials on Wednesday to preserve all drugs, intravenous lines, and tubing from the room where the state attempted to execute Christa Pike a week ago. At the same court session, her lawyers disclosed…
2026-10-07 · 3 MIN READConservative US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, 76, said in a rare CBS News interview scheduled to air Monday that he considers whether to retire every year, telling correspondent Jan Crawford he had weighed stepping down at the end of…
2026-10-04 · 4 MIN READA Nevada judge sentenced Duane "Keffe D" Davis on Tuesday to at least 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, ending the first criminal prosecution to emerge from a cold…
2026-10-13 · 4 MIN READU.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone on Friday barred the Trump administration from constructing a border wall or engaging in "ground disturbing activities" in Big Bend National Park in Texas, issuing a brief order that blocks construction…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READ
A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted the Trump administration's push to expand border infrastructure across the Big Bend region of west Texas, blocking plans to install 6-foot-tall vehicle barriers and new roads through Big Bend…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READNate Cavanaugh and two other young representatives of the Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the U.S. Institute of Peace on the afternoon of March 14, 2025, expecting to be admitted. Chief security officer Colin O'Brien locked…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READThe US Supreme Court agreed Thursday to take up a case challenging the Trump administration's practice of indefinitely detaining undocumented immigrants without bond hearings while they await deportation proceedings.
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READBrazil's attorney general said foreign meddling in Brazilian institutions "cannot be tolerated" on Thursday, calling a Guardian report on Trump administration plans to direct more than $175 million in State Department human rights funds…
2026-10-01 · 6 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will decide whether the Trump administration's policy of detaining immigrants indefinitely without bond hearings while they await immigration court proceedings is legal under the Illegal Immigration…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READA federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's firing of U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff in Seattle and reinstated him to the post until the U.S. Senate confirms a replacement.
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READD.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman dismissed the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn with prejudice on Thursday, barring the Trump administration from reviving a felony vandalism charge related to the Lincoln Memorial…
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice filed a judicial misconduct complaint Wednesday against two named federal judges and six unnamed colleagues in Minnesota who spoke to The New York Times about the Trump administration's immigration operations…
2026-09-30 · 3 MIN READThe Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals halted the scheduled execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday, ruling an hour before the execution was set to begin that it needed more time to consider arguments in her case.…
2026-09-30 · 3 MIN READThe German Federal Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal from a group of hedge funds seeking approximately 5.4 billion euros ($6.12 billion) in damages from Porsche Automobil Holding SE over the holding company's failed 2008 attempt to…
2026-09-30 · 3 MIN READCurtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday and pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., according to authorities, becoming the 16th person put to death in Florida this year. Beasley was…
2026-09-29 · 5 MIN READMay Martinez, mother of Colleen Slemmer, plans to attend the scheduled Wednesday execution of Christa Gail Pike in Nashville holding her daughter's photograph, according to a United Press International report. Martinez told WBIR-TV she…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READConsumer Watchdog said Justice Samuel Alito's Monday recusal from a major Supreme Court climate case was "the right decision, and one he should have made from the start." The group's organizing director, Alexandra Nagy, pointed to the…
2026-09-28 · 4 MIN READGerman prosecutors in Dortmund have opened an investigation into a 105-year-old man on suspicion of being an accessory to multiple murders at the Nazi prisoner of war camp Stalag 326 VI K, the public prosecutor's office said in a…
2026-09-24 · 4 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that during President Trump's second term his administration has filed defamation suits against multiple news organizations — including the Journal itself — barred Associated Press journalists from…
2026-09-24 · 3 MIN READLegal experts and former military lawyers cited a "constellation" of actions by the Trump administration — including a DHS memo outlining a legal theory for National Guard immigration enforcement at polling places, the firing of two top…
2026-09-24 · 4 MIN READSen. John Curtis of Utah sent a letter Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee requesting an investigation into Donald Trump Jr. following reports that a Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin paid for his wedding afterparty in the…
2026-09-22 · 3 MIN READA 23-member Jackson County grand jury that returned a "no true bill" Monday in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells drew from six ethnic groups, according to the grand jury report posted to District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath's Facebook…
2026-09-22 · 3 MIN READHaiti's Ministry of Justice and Public Security said it surrendered 18 suspects in the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse to the United States on Sunday "to allow for their trial," acknowledging that proceedings in Haiti "continue to…
2026-09-21 · 3 MIN READA federal judge has denied efforts to remove court oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, ruling that the agency continues to show racial disparities in traffic arrests of Latinos. In his 72-page decision issued Sept. 10, U.S.…
2026-09-18 · 3 MIN READA Swedish district court has sentenced an 18-year-old known as Chai to more than 10 years in prison for attempted murder, rape, and aggravated assault committed online, with victims in Germany and Australia, according to court findings…
2026-09-18 · 6 MIN READA federal jury on Thursday convicted Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe, 45, of sexually assaulting and robbing four women at hotels in the Chicago suburbs. He was found guilty on all 11 counts after a two-week trial.
2026-09-18 · 3 MIN READA federal judge sentenced Anthony Kazmierczak to 14 months in prison Thursday for spraying a mixture of water and apple cider vinegar at Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Minneapolis town hall in January, closing a federal case that emerged during…
2026-09-17 · 4 MIN READFBI Director Kash Patel told a Senate oversight panel on Tuesday that his agency removed automatic disqualification for FBI applicants with a history of bestiality because he did not want to "punish victims of bestiality" who had been…
2026-09-15 · 3 MIN READU.S. District Judge David Hittner ordered the Department of Homeland Security on Sept. 8 to facilitate the return of Marcela Linda Arias, a Nicaraguan woman deported to Nicaragua in late June while her request to reopen her immigration…
2026-09-15 · 3 MIN READFormer CIA Director John Brennan's attorney Ken Wainstein told a federal judge Monday that the Justice Department is engaged in "judge-shopping" and is "blatantly trying to frame somebody for a crime that is complete fiction" as it pursues…
2026-09-15 · 4 MIN READA second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's new Postal Service rule tightening mail-in voting requirements, while the Supreme Court continues to weigh a separate challenge to the same policy, as election officials say it…
2026-09-14 · 3 MIN READFormer CIA director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, on 15 October as part of a Justice Department investigation examining whether former law enforcement and intelligence…
2026-09-14 · 4 MIN READAlaska prosecutors are dropping voter-misconduct cases against 11 American Samoan residents who checked the "US citizen" box on voter registration forms, the state's Department of Law announced Friday, after a state appeals court ruled a…
2026-09-13 · 4 MIN READA federal court in Australia has discontinued "by consent" a Racial Discrimination Act case the Zionist Federation of Australia brought against former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis over two social media posts she shared in January 2024.…
2026-09-12 · 4 MIN READVicky Kyung Mi Kim, 65, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly fatally wounding her husband with a flagpole at the couple's Palm Desert home on September 4, according to SF Gate. Her bail was set at $10 million, according…
2026-09-12 · 3 MIN READThe US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously on Friday that the Department of Energy exceeded its authority when it used emergency powers to keep the 64-year-old JH Campbell Generating Plant in Ottawa…
2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READThe New Mexico Supreme Court fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 on Wednesday and held him in contempt for filing an appeal brief in a murder case that contained witness testimony fabricated by ChatGPT. Aarons said he used the AI tool to…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READDemocratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio urged Britain's Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Friday to stop sealing proceedings in Apple's challenge to a UK encryption order. The bipartisan…
2026-09-11 · 5 MIN READNew South Wales police have settled a civil trespass lawsuit brought by two Aboriginal mothers whose children were the subject of repeated bail compliance checks, with officers visiting one of the homes more than 150 times over 20 months —…
2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READFormer Carlton Football Club president Luke Sayers has apologized "unreservedly" to his former wife Cate Sayers in the Victorian Supreme Court as her defamation case against him over an alleged lewd-photo posting settled on Friday. Justice…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READGrammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk was acquitted Friday in federal court in Los Angeles of murder-for-hire charges stemming from the 2022 death of Saviay'a Robinson. The jury deliberated for three days before returning the verdict…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department filed four lawsuits Thursday against Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and Washington, D.C., challenging state and local policies that extend in-state college tuition benefits to certain noncitizens. The filings bring the Trump…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READFlorida executed Daniel Conahan, 72, by lethal injection on Thursday for the April 1996 killing of Richard Allen Montgomery, 21, whose body was found nude and mutilated in wooded game trails in Charlotte County on the state's Gulf Coast,…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READThe Boston-based First US Circuit Court of Appeals declined on September 10, 2026, to stay a lower-court injunction preventing the US Postal Service from tightening rules around mail-in voting, The Guardian reported. The ruling leaves the…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READDaniel Owen Conahan Jr, 72, was scheduled for execution by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery. A final appeal remained pending before the US Supreme Court after the…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READBritish authorities have until Sept. 16 to file a formal request to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate, who face 59 criminal charges including rape, human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The deadline falls 60 days after the brothers…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READThe Missouri Supreme Court has ordered Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear Thursday morning to explain why he should not be held in contempt for directing local election officials to follow a federal court order rather than the…
2026-09-09 · 3 MIN READFederal appellate courts could decide as soon as this week whether to allow the U.S. Postal Service to implement new mail ballot rules for the midterm elections, according to NPR. The Trump administration has asked the 1st U.S. Circuit…
2026-09-09 · 5 MIN READA federal magistrate in Miami denied bail Wednesday to social-media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate as the brothers fight potential extradition to the U.K. on charges of rape and sex trafficking. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis…
2026-09-09 · 3 MIN READUCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project released a guide on Wednesday advising judges how to evaluate search warrant requests for ballots and election materials, as voting officials and legal groups prepare for the possibility that federal…
2026-09-09 · 4 MIN READFormer Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is scheduled to appear remotely in a State College, Pennsylvania, courtroom Tuesday for a hearing on an accuser's bid to recant his testimony in the 2012 sexual-abuse case against…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READAlamosa County District Judge Amanda Hopkins on Tuesday raised bond to $10 million for Barry Morphew, charged with killing his wife, after prosecutors argued that an Aug. 26 crash in Denver showed he was a flight risk. Morphew, who had…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READA coalition of legal advocacy groups is escalating court challenges to President Donald Trump's executive orders on voting and mail ballots, pressing a fight that now reaches the Supreme Court. The Democracy Defenders Fund, the Campaign…
2026-09-07 · 4 MIN READU.S. District Judge David A. Bragdon ruled Friday that former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued in North Carolina under the state's alienation-of-affection law over her romantic relationship with a member of her security detail,…
2026-09-04 · 3 MIN READFive immigration attorneys told NPR that immigrants scheduled to appear in coming months at courts in Maryland and Virginia are being notified within days — or not at all — about new in-person hearings at undisclosed buildings in…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READFormer U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Justice Department and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging her March 2025 firing was unlawful and tied to her refusal to recommend restoring actor…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READA Galveston County jury on Thursday sentenced James Dolphs Elmore Jr. to 20 years in prison for the cocaine-related death of 16-year-old Laura Miller, whose body was found in 1986 in the area southeast of Houston known as the "Texas…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READFormer Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, asked a Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss drug-trafficking charges against them, arguing that a sitting foreign head of state cannot face prosecution in a…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READA jury in Valletta, Malta, on Wednesday acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of masterminding the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict closes the last prosecution in a case that toppled a…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READHundreds of people lined up outside Miami's immigration court on Tuesday under a new Trump administration scheduling tactic — "mega master" calendar hearings — that places more than 100 cases on individual dockets that previously averaged…
2026-09-02 · 6 MIN READFederal judges have varied their commutes, hired private security and fortified their homes, including with panic buttons, in response to a wave of threats and harassment, according to two new studies by legal scholars at New York…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READA Massachusetts jury told Judge William Sullivan on Tuesday that it was deadlocked after three days of deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. Judge Sullivan instructed the jurors to keep trying. Clancy, 36, is…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READA Utah judge will decide Tuesday whether there is enough evidence to send Tyler Robinson to trial on an aggravated murder charge in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The state court hearing follows a five-day evidence…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READHarold Gene Lucas, 74, was scheduled to be executed by three-drug lethal injection beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke, according to the Associated Press. If carried out, he would become the 14th prisoner put to…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READA federal judge on Saturday ordered the involuntary feeding of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man charged with shooting two National Guard troops near the White House and killing one of them, after he stopped eating in custody and was…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READTom Homan, the White House 'border czar,' on Sunday denied that the one-day turnaround between British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos's arrest and his deportation to the United Kingdom amounted to preferential treatment. Appearing on CNN's…
2026-08-30 · 4 MIN READFederal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein on Friday rejected for a third time President Donald Trump's effort to move his New York hush money conviction to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential immunity grounds, reaffirming his…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READAttorney General Todd Blanche defended his record leading the Justice Department in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press during a trip to Puerto Rico this week. Blanche, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney,…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READA Manhattan federal judge on Thursday approved a $72.5 million settlement between Bank of America and around 60 women who were trafficked or abused by Jeffrey Epstein or his associates between June 2008 and July 2019. U.S. District Judge…
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