The top law enforcement officer in the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he trafficked and sexually abused girls and women on his private island as recently as 2018. ...
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s push to restart federal executions after nearly two decades heads back to court Wednesday morning in Washington. Justice Department lawyers are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not review the manslaughter conviction of a Massachusetts teenager who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself. Michelle Carter was convicted in the 2014 death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy. She ...
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Former Rep. Chris Collins, President Donald Trump’s first congressional supporter, should serve nearly five years in prison for insider trading and lying to the FBI, federal prosecutors recommended to a judge Monday. A lengthy sentence is necessary “to promote respect ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether it should set aside the convictions of two former New Jersey officials found guilty of fraud in the “Bridgegate” case, and the decision could have broader implications for how ...
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The state of Oklahoma, which last year won a court verdict against opioid manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, filed suit Monday against three mammoth drug distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug crisis by indiscriminately sending billions of painkillers across ...
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CHICAGO – In the middle of a video announcing her reelection campaign, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx did something few Chicago politicians do: She admitted fault. Foxx had been criticized by President Donald Trump, the Fraternal Order of Police ...
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WASHINGTON – Taking a cue from a GOP ally, President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked a former senior Justice Department official appointed by a federal judge to review the FBI’s proposed wiretap application reforms in the wake of a critical ...
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Medical companies that develop tests to diagnose neurological disorders, heart disease risk and fetal abnormalities have been in legal limbo since a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that limited the patenting of such tests, finding they occurred in nature and were ...
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Dozens of New Yorkers in former Congressman Chris Collins’s upstate district urged a judge to jail him for a long time following his guilty plea to insider trading. “Lock him up and throw away the key,” wrote Collins’s former constituent ...
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WASHINGTON – A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected ...
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It was lost, then it was found, and now it is gone. So goes the saga of video footage from outside the jail cell of multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, recorded on the day he may have first tried, but ...
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