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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday weakened but upheld a long-standing precedent that says judges should generally defer to a federal agency’s expertise when ambiguous regulations are challenged. The court’s most conservative members, who have said the deference gives ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — After her first bid for release from prison was denied, former radical Judith Clark spent the next two years focusing on the seriousness of her crime, the suffering of her victims and any reparations she could ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s imprisoned former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is set to be arraigned in New York City Thursday on state mortgage fraud charges seen as a ploy to keep him locked up if he is ...

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Incoming Monroe County Bar Association president Carolyn Nussbaum plans to spend a lot of time in the coming year listening to what local attorneys want from the bar association, while getting the word out about all the things the organization ...

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NEW YORK — Alphonso David, a civil rights lawyer who has been serving as chief counsel to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was named Tuesday as the new president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ-rights organization in the ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a long-standing precedent that says judges should generally defer to a federal agency’s expertise when ambiguous regulations are challenged. But the court’s conservatives, who have said that that gives too much power ...

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It had been a long week for Sarah Fabian, a Justice Department lawyer many Americans now closely associate with the detention of child migrants, and at the end of it, she logged onto Facebook to compose a letter. “To my ...

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WASHINGTON – The news that another woman had accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault landed with barely a political whimper. When the allegation by magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll emerged Friday afternoon, there was little response from Capitol Hill, ...

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WASHINGTON – Rejecting a request from President Donald Trump, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday cleared the way for nearly 200 Democrats in Congress to continue their lawsuit against him alleging that his private business violates an anti-corruption ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before Congress on July 17 after Democrats issued subpoenas to compel him to appear, the chairmen of two House committees announced. Mueller’s unusual back-to-back testimony in front of ...

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A state appellate court has reinstated a Hamilton College student who had been expelled for alleged sexual misconduct and ordered the school to strictly adhere to its own policies in any further actions against the student. About two months before ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A special prosecutor was requested Monday to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in a case that has inflamed tensions between the black community and law enforcement and ...