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Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber
Legal Business 11/14/2024Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.In a rematch from 2022, ...
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Revising the rules of engagement, court says jilted bride must give back $70,000 ring
Legal Business 11/10/2024Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the wedding is called off?That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.The court ultimately ruled Friday that...
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Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
Legal Business 10/21/2024Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the count...
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Congolese military court hands down death sentence to leader of rebel coalition
Legal Business 08/06/2024A military court in Congo on Thursday sentenced 25 people, including the leader of a rebel coalition, to death after a high-profile televised trial that started late last month.Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo, or AFC, was found ...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
Legal Business 08/05/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Sacramento mass shooting suspect dies in jail cell, police and attorney say
Legal Business 06/09/2024A suspect who was being held in a California jail on charges connected to a 2022 mass shooting in the state capital died in his cell Saturday, according to police and his attorney. The 29-year-old male inmate died while in custody at the Sacramento C...
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Trial turns testy as Trump lawyers try to pique fixer-turned-witness
Legal Business 05/27/2024After approximately five weeks, 19 witnesses, reams of documents and a dash of salacious testimony, the prosecution against Donald Trump rested its case Monday, handing over to the defense before closing arguments expected next week.Trump’s tea...
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Trump campaign expects to raise $43 million at Florida fundraiser
Legal Business 04/06/2024Donald Trump’s campaign is expecting to raise more than $40 million on Saturday when major donors gather for his biggest fundraiser yet.The event at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson is expected to bring in $43 ...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
Legal Business 04/04/2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriag...
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Executive is convicted of insider trading related to medical device firm acquisition
Legal Business 02/19/2024An executive at a medical device company has been convicted in Minnesota of insider trading for a scheme involving negotiations for the acquisition of the firm that was valued at $1.6 billion, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Doron Tavlin was a vice ...
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Britain cracks down on protests in threat to democratic norms
Legal Business 12/26/2023For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading “Just Stop Oil” off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison senten...
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Reaction to court ruling FIFA, UEFA unlawfully blocked Super League
Legal Business 12/21/2023With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump ‘s Republican rivals are once again rallying to his defense, this time after Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled to remove him from the state’s presidential primary ballot u...