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Mexican cartel leader’s son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot
Criminal Law 09/22/2024The son of a Mexican drug cartel leader was convicted Friday of charges that he used violence, including the deadly downing of a military helicopter, to help his father operate one of the country’s largest and most dangerous narcotics trafficki...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment
Criminal Law 09/20/2024Sean “Diddy” Combs headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes protected by blackmail and shocking acts of violence.The music mogul is charged...
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Court orders new hearing for Adnan Syed in ‘Serial’ murder case
Criminal Law 08/27/2024A 2022 court hearing that freed Adnan Syed from prison violated the legal rights of the victim’s family and must be redone, Maryland’s Supreme Court ruled Friday, marking the latest development in the ongoing legal saga that gained global...
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The Man Charged in an Illinois Attack That Left 4 Dead Is Due Back in Court
Criminal Law 04/02/2024A northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them is expected back in court on Tuesday. A judge in the city of Rockford is expected to consider prosecutors' request that Chri...
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Supreme Court allows Border Patrol to cut razor wire put up by Texas
Criminal Law 01/22/2024A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues.The justices, by a 5-4 vote, granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administr...
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Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
Criminal Law 11/02/2023Donald Trump Jr. testified Wednesday that he never worked on his father’s financial statements, the documents now at the heart of the civil fraud trial that threatens former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire.The ex-president&rsq...
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Hunter Biden sues the IRS over tax disclosures after agent testimony
Criminal Law 09/19/2023Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, claiming that two agents publicly alleging tax-probe interference wrongly shared his personal information, a case that comes amid escalating legal and political struggles as the 2024 election ...
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McCarthy challenges right-flank colleagues to try to oust him from his post
Criminal Law 09/17/2023Angry, frustrated and unable to lead a fractured and unruly Republican majority, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday told the colleagues threatening to oust him: Do it. The embattled Republican leader essentially dared his hard-right flank to qu...
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DACA is illegal with issue likely to be decided by Supreme Court
Criminal Law 09/14/2023While a federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, he declined to order an immediate end to the program and t...
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Worker gets almost 3 years in prison for stealing $1M from employer
Criminal Law 08/20/2023The former IT director of a Rhode Island metals fabrication company convicted of stealing more than $1 million from his employer and using the money for personal expenses was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in prison. Juan Hicks, 47, of New Be...
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Opponents of Maine’s new abortion law won’t seek to nullify it
Criminal Law 08/13/2023Groups opposed to Maine’s new law expanding abortion access won’t attempt to nullify the statute through a so-called People’s Veto referendum.Republican Rep. Laurel Libby, leader of the Speak Up for LIFE group, said Wednesday that a...
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A federal appeals court made medication abortions harder to get in Guam
Criminal Law 08/05/2023People seeking medication abortions on the U.S. Territory of Guam must first have an in-person consultation with a doctor, a federal appeals court says, even though the nearest physician willing to prescribe the medication is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilom...