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Wrongful arrests, delayed prison releases and other legal mishaps have been caused by inaccurate records processed by a new court management software system installed in Alameda County, California, court officials say. It’s gotten so bad that the public defender’s office ...

The FBI told a federal judge that it needed to search a computer to resume its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server because agents had found correspondence on the device between Clinton and top aide Huma ...

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In June, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a horrific spate of violence at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Now, the families of some of the victims are suing Google, Twitter and Facebook over their role ...

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The plan was to rob Justin Back’s place and kill him. Austin Myers would distract him, giving Timothy Mosley an opening to choke Back with a garrote made out of two handles and a wire cable. Then, the two 19-year-olds ...

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More than three years have passed since a federal judge in California sanctioned attorneys Paul R. Hansmeier and John L. Steele for using legal loopholes to extract settlements from people they accused of illegally downloading pornography. Their tactics were complicated ...

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The shock waves from a terrorist attack often spread widely, to include not only the immediate victims of a bombing or shooting, but to their families, the area of the attack and the businesses affected by it. In the case ...

When the state of Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith Jr. last week, he became the 20th inmate put to death in the United States this year. Smith’s execution was a rarity for the United States, where the death penalty is ...

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A few weeks ago, a federal judge in Oregon made headlines when she ruled that a groundbreaking climate lawsuit will proceed to trial. And some experts say its outcome could rewrite the future of climate policy in the United States. ...

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  Last year, candidate Donald Trump called the “enormous amounts of money” CEOs make “disgraceful” and “a total and complete joke.” But what will president-elect Trump do about the executive pay regulations in the Dodd-Frank legislation he promised to repeal ...

President-elect Donald Trump has called for dramatic changes in U.S. trade policy. He’s labeled the North American Free Trade Agreement and other U.S. trade deals a disaster. He’s threatened to levy high tariffs on Chinese imports, at times up to ...

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Justice Clarence Thomas marked 25 years on the Supreme Court last week, and if he remains for another dozen or so, he could become the longest-serving member in the court’s history. But the unofficial title of the court’s most polarizing ...

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Since the 2008 financial crisis, one obscure federal agency has succeeded in doing what many thought was impossible: sending bankers to prison. The agency has charged 85 bankers from across the country with a crime over the last few years ...

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