WASHINGTON – Last spring, more than a dozen federal agents spent six hours searching the law firm of a prominent Maryland attorney, sweeping up thousands of emails, files and other documents in a money laundering and obstruction investigation. A federal ...
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Liberals fearing yet another Supreme Court vacancy for President Donald Trump to fill have some cause for relief: It doesn’t appear that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going anywhere anytime soon. The 86-year-old justice told CNN this week she is ...
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department says the Equal Rights Amendment can no longer be ratified because its deadline expired decades ago, throwing a barrier into the path of activists who want the amendment enacted if Virginia’s new, majority Democratic ...
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Microsoft will share a tool it’s been using on its Xbox gaming service to scan online text chats and detect adults seeking to groom and exploit children for sexual purposes. Codenamed Project Artemis, the technique combs through historical messages and ...
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CNN agreed to settle a libel lawsuit filed by the family of a Covington, Kentucky, teenager who gained national attention during an encounter with a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year. The ...
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The FBI is pressing Apple for help opening iPhones that belonged to the Saudi military student who killed three people last month at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida, signaling a potential revival of the fight between the federal government ...
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A Manhattan judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s criminal sexual assault trial refused to delay the case in light of what the defense says is a prejudicial news cycle due to new charges against the entertainment mogul that were filed Monday in ...
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WASHINGTON – John Bolton complicated Senate Republicans’ impeachment strategy on Monday, declaring his willingness to testify and upping the pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his party to summon the former national security adviser as a witness in ...
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Ikea will pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old child crushed to death by a Malm dresser, a piece of furniture associated with several child deaths from accidental tip-overs, according to a mediated court settlement announced Monday. Jozef ...
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NEW YORK – Days after the New Yorker and New York Times first published allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the hashtag #MeToo took flight, becoming shorthand for a worldwide campaign aimed at holding men accountable for ...
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A coalition of Democratic-led states on Friday asked the Supreme Court to consider the legality of the Affordable Care Act during its current term, which would mark the justices’ third review in the near-decade history of the health-care law. The ...
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Inside a Texas children’s hospital, an 11-month-old girl lies paralyzed and in constant pain. She can breathe only with a ventilator. A suite of medications keeps her alive. Tinslee’s condition, doctors say, will never improve. The infant’s health-care team at ...
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