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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
Politics 03/12/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction
Politics 03/02/2024Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer said Tuesday that a suggested 100-year prison sentence for the FTX founder by an arm of the court is “grotesque” and “barbaric” and at most a term of a few years behind bars is appropriate for ...
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Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings
Politics 02/08/2024Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.While Republicans argue that the consultants&r...
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What to know about arguments over Donald Trump's immunity claims
Politics 01/11/2024Appeals court judges signaled Tuesday that they will likely reject Donald Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution in his election interference case. The outcome seemed clear during arguments that touched on a range of political and le...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case
Politics 12/24/2023The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities.The ruling...
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Retired Justice O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died
Politics 12/02/2023Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. She was 93.O’Connor died in Phoenix, of complications related t...
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New Mexico Supreme Court upholds Democratic-drawn congressional map
Politics 11/28/2023The New Mexico Supreme Court upheld a Democratic-drawn congressional map that divvied up a conservative, oil-producing region and reshaped a swing district along the U.S. border with Mexico, in an order published Monday.All five justices signed a sho...
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Six teens in court in connection with beheading of French teacher
Politics 11/24/2023Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, a killing that led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and ...
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Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users
Politics 11/16/2023A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine.A magistrate at Moscow&...
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Dutch court convicts man who projected antisemitic message on museum
Politics 10/15/2023A court in Amsterdam sentenced a Polish-Canadian national to two months in prison on Thursday for projecting a message alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory onto the Anne Frank House museum.Robert Wilson was charged with insulting a group and ...
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US sues SpaceX for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and others
Politics 08/26/2023The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people granted asylum.The complaint, filed in an administrative court within the departmen...
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Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton
Politics 06/21/2023An appeals court in New Jersey has tossed out the convictions of a man sentenced to 55 years in prison after being tried as a teenager in the 2016 death of a girl who was shot in a minivan as she and other juveniles were riding around Trenton.The cou...