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WASHINGTON – A prominent House Republican plans to ask a federal financial watchdog to audit the office of special counsel Robert Mueller III, opening a new front of GOP attack on the secretive probe into Russian interference in the 2016 ...

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An appeals court has ordered a hearing on potential new evidence in a murder case. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department, overturned a Monroe County Court Judge who refused refusing to grant the hearing to Gregory Borcyk, ...

WASHINGTON — The political battle over President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees escalated on Thursday when the Senate took the rare step of confirming the nomination of a Wisconsin attorney to serve as a federal judge despite the objections of one ...

For several years, an animal rights organization has sought to convince New York courts that chimpanzees kept by private owners are “legal persons” with a right to be free. For several years, the courts have rejected that argument. New York’s ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit apologized during his confirmation hearing Wednesday. At issue: a slate of articles disparaging multiculturalism that he wrote more than 20 years ...

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The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department, has reversed a misdemeanor conviction because of an error by the judge during jury selection. Anthony B. Smouse was convicted in March 2014 of second-degree reckless endangerment in a domestic violence ...

Barbara Underwood’s career has been one of firsts: She was first in her law school class and the first woman to serve as U.S. solicitor general, and she is now the first woman to be New York’s attorney general. Underwood, ...

Dr. Dre. Dr. Drai. While the names look similar and are pronounced the same way (long “a”), they belong to two very different people. The first “doctor” is known for the rap album “The Chronic.” The other is on the ...

WASHINGTON – Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an urgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes could endanger a top-secret intelligence source. Top White House officials, with the ...

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A former executive at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Corp. is suing the organization claiming she was fired because she disclosed the alleged misuse of federal government funding. Kimberlee A. Frarey filed an 18-page complaint in U.S. District Court in ...

judge overseeing more than 600 lawsuits targeting opioid makers is demanding local governments’ lawyers turn over any litigation-funding agreements so he can insure lenders have no control over the cases. U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland issued the order ...

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The New York State Court of Appeals has settled the confusion over exactly what proof is required to convict someone of identity theft in New York. In a 6-1 decision, the Court ruled that prosecutors can establish that a defendant ...