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On the morning of his 500th day in office, June 4, the president had a lot on his mind. Amid a string of tweets touting his greatest accomplishments and bemoaning the plight of farmers — who he said have been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The retrial of a former top New York lawmaker will not be moved elsewhere despite claims that the indictment is fatally flawed and that pretrial publicity makes finding fair jurors impossible, a judge said Monday. The ...

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As a veteran of the sport, Katherine Courtney knows “you can only be as good a runner as your bones let you.” “It’s like the foundation. It’s the base,” said Courtney, an attorney adviser for the Social Security Administration’s Office ...

WASHINGTON — States can target people who haven’t cast ballots in a while in efforts to purge their voting rolls, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that has drawn wide attention amid stark partisan divisions and the approach ...

GREENBELT, Md. — Lawyers for Maryland and the District of Columbia accused President Donald Trump in federal court Monday of “profiting on an unprecedented scale” from foreign government interests using his Washington, D.C., hotel, but a Justice Department lawyer insisted ...

ALBANY — A lawyer who served as an upstate New York town judge has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $11 million from family trusts he oversaw. The state attorney general’s office says 57-year-old Richard Sherwood pleaded guilty in Albany ...

Delivery drivers for the Jimmy John’s restaurant chain have filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status over delivery charges. The 19-page complaint was filed Monday in state Supreme Court by attorneys at Thomas & Solomon LLP on behalf of three named ...

WASHINGTON — Lawsuits over LGBT rights are making their way through courts and will continue, even after the Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Courts ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman serving a life term for nonviolent offenses, after meeting with reality television star and socialite Kim Kardashian West last week to discuss the case. ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyers sued the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday to try to stop plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, calling it an unconstitutional attempt to discriminate against immigrants. The Manhattan federal ...

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court acknowledged in its ruling about a Colorado baker this week that “further elaboration in the courts” will be necessary to answer whether a business owner’s religious rights can provide exemption from laws that require equal ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sean Patrick Maloney, the first openly gay Congress member from New York, says he’s running for state attorney general. The 51-year-old Democrat from the Hudson Valley announced Wednesday that he’s seeking election as the state’s top ...

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