WASHINGTON — With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. The justices on Monday put off a decision about ...
Read More »AP source: Justice Dept secretly subpoenaed McGahn’s records
WASHINGTON — Apple informed former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn and his wife that the Justice Department had subpoenaed information about accounts belonging to them in 2018, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday, days after two House ...
Read More »High court rejects 2 Virginia white nationalist rally cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving in place the convictions of two men who as members of a white supremacist group participated in a white nationalist rally in Virginia in 2017 that turned violent. The high court said ...
Read More »Second lawsuit filed in Hilton school abuse case
The family of a former Hilton school district student that previously filed a notice of claim against the district for alleged child sex abuse by a school principal has now filed a lawsuit in federal court.
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Read More »Tax rate certainty would enhance opportunity zone investment
Investment in qualified opportunity zones could become more widely popular if the Biden Administration follows through with proposed substantial hikes on capital gains taxes. Many investors have moved cautiously with regard to opportunity zones, but there may be a dramatic ...
Read More »New York raises age to arrest juveniles, eases parole penalties
New Yorkers would avoid jail time for nonviolent parole violations, and children younger than age 12 could no longer be arrested as juveniles under bills that passed the state Legislature on Thursday.
Read More »Trump DOJ seized data from House Democrats in leaks probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department under former President Donald Trump seized data from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Committee in 2018 as part of an aggressive crackdown on leaks related to the Russia ...
Read More »Prison break: 29 inmates escape federal lockups in 18 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S. — and nearly half still have not been caught. At some of the institutions, doors are left unlocked, security cameras are broken ...
Read More »Law enforcement struggles to recruit since killing of Floyd
Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop. And amid the national reckoning ...
Read More »Daily Record announces Reader Rankings honorees
he votes are in, and The Daily Record and the Rochester Business Journal are pleased to announce the 2021 Reader Rankings Awards winners.
Read More »Lawyers urge ICC to probe alleged crimes against Uyghurs
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A group of lawyers presented a dossier of evidence Thursday to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court that they say establishes jurisdiction for the global tribunal to investigate allegations Chinese authorities are involved in grave crimes ...
Read More »Arizona refurbishes gas chamber in push to resume executions
PHOENIX — As it aims to resume executions after a seven-year hiatus, Arizona has refurbished its gas chamber, where the nation’s last lethal-gas execution was carried out more than two decades ago before the United States rejected the brutal nature ...
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