Washington attorney Charles Cooper, who has represented two attorneys general and is enmeshed in the congressional investigation of President Donald Trump’s contacts with Ukraine, entered the libel case against Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz Thursday after another high-powered attorney, David ...
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WASHINGTON – The American Bar Association had no shortage of criticism in its assessment of the Trump administration’s new judicial nominee. Colleagues found Lawrence VanDyke to be “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice,” the ...
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When they were finished, it looked as though the Greenwood Village, Colorado, police had blasted rockets through the house. Projectiles were still lodged in the walls. Glass and wooden paneling crumbled on the ground below the gaping holes, and inside, ...
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Read More »The trial to determine whether Capital Gazette shooter Jarrod Ramos was legally insane at the time of the attack that left five dead was postponed Wednesday, the day jury selection in the case was set to begin. A new trial ...
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A California businessman was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison for paying $250,000 in a scam to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit, prosecutors announced. Jeffrey Bizzack, 59, of San ...
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WASHINGTON – Democratic investigators have requested testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton in their expanding impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, reaching into the upper echelons of the White House as they prepared to move ahead Thursday with ...
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the Justice Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI for records detailing their use of facial-recognition software, arguing that the agencies have secretly implemented a nationwide surveillance technology that threatens Americans’ ...
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Maryland has reached a tentative agreement to award about $9 million to five wrongly convicted men, including about $3 million – the state’s largest-ever such settlement – to a man who spent 39 years in prison for a crime he ...
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WASHINGTON — National Security Council Ukraine expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s testimony in the House impeachment probe Tuesday is shedding new light on how Trump administration officials pressured Ukrainian leaders into investigations that could benefit the president, corroborating other witnesses ...
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New York’s $1.6 billion securities-fraud lawsuit against Exxon Mobil is scheduled to begin a second week of trial Monday, after a series of witnesses didn’t provide any concrete evidence that the oil giant knowingly misled shareholders about its climate change ...
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A federal judge reinstated part of a lawsuit against The Washington Post filed by the family of a Kentucky teenager that alleged the newspaper libeled the teen in its coverage of his encounter with a Native American activist at the ...
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St. Louis County Police Department Sgt. Keith Wildhaber had more than 15 years of experience on the force when he applied for a promotion in 2014, and by all accounts, he was a strong candidate. But shortly after Wildhaber applied, ...
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