On Monday morning, a liberal watchdog group filed a lawsuit against President Trump, alleging he’d violated a previously obscure provision in the Constitution, the “Emoluments Clause.” The watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that the clause ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint his son-in-law as a senior adviser did not violate a federal anti-nepotism law, the Department of Justice found in a formal legal opinion issued Saturday. The 14-page opinion, written by a more ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a lower-court ruling that a Texas voter-ID law discriminates against minority voters — at least for now. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said in a statement attached to the order ...
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Read More »The party in the otherwise quiet Washington neighborhood had gotten loud by the time D.C. police officers Andre Parker and Anthony Campanale arrived. Several women were dressed only in bras and thongs, with money in their garter belts. The unoccupied ...
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Read More »A man who was convicted of harassing an autistic black teenage runner who became disoriented during a 5K cross-country race last fall was sentenced to three years probation and 80 hours of community service. Martin McDonald, 57, of Pittsford, admitted ...
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Read More »NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that it had agreed to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the bank of discriminating against minority borrowers for years by charging them about $1,000 more than white customers for a mortgage. The case ...
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Walmart on Tuesday announced that it plans to add 10,000 U.S. jobs and provide skills-building training to a quarter million of its workers by the end of 2017. The vast majority of the new positions will be in its stores, ...
Read More »The Muslim boy who found himself in the national spotlight after he was wrongfully arrested for bringing a homemade alarm clock to school has lost in a defamation lawsuit against conservative media companies and personalities. The lawsuit accused Fox Television ...
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Read More »Anna Yocca was 24 weeks pregnant in September 2015, when Tennessee authorities said she climbed into a bathtub filled with water and drove a wire coat hanger into her womb. The alleged “self-abortion” didn’t work. Panicked at the sight of ...
Read More »WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., testified Wednesday that Jeff Sessions is the wrong man to lead the Department of Justice, saying the Republican Alabama senator’s lengthy record in Congress exposed views that are inconsistent with the venerated job he ...
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Volkswagen took a major step toward resolving one of the darkest chapters in its history Wednesday, pleading guilty to an emissions-cheating scandal and agreeing to pay $4.3 billion in criminal and civil charges as the U.S. announced charges against five ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has issued its first procedures for how the FBI and other department law enforcement agencies should ask eyewitnesses to identify suspects using photo lineups and how federal prosecutors weigh that evidence to avoid erroneous convictions. ...
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