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Justice Department plans to restart capital punishment after long hiatus

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced plans Thursday to resume executing federal prisoners awaiting the death penalty – ending a 16-year moratorium on the practice and setting the stage for fresh legal challenges. Attorney General William Barr ordered the Bureau ...

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‘Lion King’ has been clouded by intellectual property controversy for 25 years. Here’s the story behind it.

A comical warthog and wise baboon. An evil lion with a deformed eye and hyena henchmen. A lion cub that experiences profound loss, grows up under the tutelage of a talking bird, then reclaims his throne and his legacy. It ...

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Judge orders fired Naval Academy professor be reinstated

A U.S. Naval Academy professor fired for “unprofessional conduct” and known for his criticism of the school should get his job back, a judge ruled Wednesday. Last summer, the academy dismissed tenured English professor Bruce Fleming after investigating complaints about ...

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Ex-judge dragged from courtroom after sentencing amid cries of ‘no justice, no peace’

First came the conviction of former judge Tracie Hunter, then came a series of appeals that shook Ohio’s legal system for years. And then Monday, amid screams of racial injustice from her supporters, came the bailiff to drag a defeated ...

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Wray says FBI has recorded about 100 domestic terrorism arrests in fiscal 2019 and most investigations involve white supremacy

WASHINGTON – FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Tuesday that the bureau has recorded about 100 arrests of domestic terrorism suspects in the past nine months and that most investigations of that kind involve some form of white supremacy – ...

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A judge signed a warrant to search a journalist. But police didn’t tell her the whole story.

Police officers in San Francisco did not tell a judge that a man they sought a search warrant for was a reporter, according to records released Tuesday. In May, Bryan Carmody was being investigated as police looked for the source ...

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Puerto Ricans shut down highway, march toward Capitol to demand that governor resign

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Ricans draped in their territory’s colors marched into the streets Monday to demand the resignation of their embattled governor, shuttering businesses and paralyzing a major highway in one of the largest demonstration in the ...

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Judge voices doubt over halting latest asylum restriction

WASHINGTON – A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump’s move to sharply restrict asylum requests from people at the U.S.-Mexico border who are fleeing persecution may have violated a federal law that requires U.S. agencies to give 30 ...

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Federal judge temporarily halts congressional Democrats’ subpoenas of Trump financial records

WASHINGTON — A federal judge temporarily blocked subpoenas from congressional Democrats for President Donald Trump’s financial records after an appeals court weighed in on the issue. The appeals court in Washington intervened Friday in the legal battle between the lawmakers ...

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