Sitting in her jail cell last week, Patricia Spottedcrow couldn’t imagine where she was going to get the money she needed for her release. In 2010, the young Oklahoma mother, who had been caught selling $31 worth of marijuana to ...
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WASHINGTON — Has the Supreme Court become a soft touch for the Trump administration? Or are the justices sending a message to lower courts not to become a part of the “resistance” to the president’s legitimate powers? The questions became relevant ...
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Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison last year for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election, a case that garnered national attention both for the severity of the sentence and as an illustration of Texas’s purported crackdown ...
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A former college classmate accused New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown of rape and sexual assault in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, where Brown lives, the woman accused the ...
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has asked a federal court to reconsider a ruling that opened the door for potential payments to millions of federal employees and others due to the cybertheft of their personal information. The Justice Department request, ...
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In California, a man is accused of a series of unprovoked attacks on homeless people. In Arizona, a Democratic congressman’s aide breaks the ankle of a Republican wearing a Make America Great Again hat. In Connecticut, a police officer has ...
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LONDON – A panel of three Scottish judges ruled Wednesday morning that Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was illegal, delivering the British prime minister yet another setback in a month that has been full of them. The ruling does ...
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday set sentencing for Dec. 18 for President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn as prosecutors warned they reserved the option to recommend prison time instead of probation for Flynn. Assistant U.S. ...
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The memory of a mass shooting that killed three at the Gilroy Garlic Festival was still fresh in nearby San Francisco when its Board of Supervisors unanimously voted last week to denounce the National Rifle Association. But the city’s leaders ...
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WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ordered a resentencing of the neighbor who assaulted and seriously injured Sen. Rand Paul in 2017, saying that 30 days in jail and a $10,000 fine were inexplicably below the sentencing guidelines for such ...
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WASHINGTON – A federal judge in California on Monday reimposed a nationwide injunction against President Donald Trump’s policy denying asylum to almost all who enter the country after passing through Mexico or a third country. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ...
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The nation’s state attorneys general have tangled with mortgage lenders, tobacco giants and the makers of addictive drugs. Now, they’re setting their sights on another target: Big Tech. After years of federal inaction, the state watchdogs are initiating sweeping antitrust ...
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