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The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of bitcoin and other digital currencies, dramatically ratcheting up U.S. scrutiny of red-hot markets that critics say are rife with misconduct, according to four people ...

NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump is violating the First Amendment when he blocks critics on Twitter because of their political views. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan stopped short in her ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Denia Perez’s parents brought her from Mexico to the United States illegally when she was 11. Last month, she became among the first of the so-called “Dreamers” to earn a law degree. And now, she and ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and lawyer Paul Clement often find themselves on opposite sides of issues he argues and she helps decide at the high court. But at a recent event in Washington, Kagan and Clement ...

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BUFFALO — Federal authorities accused two Morgan Management executives and two business associates of fraudulently obtaining $167.5 million in mortgage loans which, the special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Buffalo Division said, is akin to stealing money. “Fraud for profit aims ...

The Erie County District Attorney’s Office is expected to continue to prosecute in the face of significant questions about the validity of a search that garnered key evidence. Sean Reed Jr., 30, pleaded guilty in May 2014 to second-degree criminal ...

WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups slammed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for saying Tuesday that schools can decide whether to report undocumented students to immigration enforcement officials, saying her statements conflict with the law and could raise fears among immigrant students. ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Legislature on Tuesday appointed Barbara Underwood interim attorney general two weeks after Eric Schneiderman suddenly resigned as the state’s top legal chief amid allegations he physically abused four women he dated. Assembly Speaker ...

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Michael Rotondo refuses to move out of his parents’ house. So much so that the 30-year-old argued for a half-hour with a judge in Upstate New York on Tuesday, saying that while he knew his parents wanted him out of ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime business partner of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, whose business dealings are being scrutinized by federal prosecutors, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a state tax fraud case that requires him to cooperate ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump wants New York’s highest court to delay a defamation suit filed by a former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of unwanted groping and kissing. Trump’s lawyers filed notice late Monday that they’re asking ...

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WASHINGTON – The FBI agent who swore out a May 2017 search warrant in the investigation of Paul Manafort will be in federal court Wednesday to testify if needed as Manafort’s lawyers ask a judge to toss evidence seized last ...

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