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News Articles: Law

Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus on Aug. 11, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.

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  • Law

Multiple torch-carrying marchers in the Charlottesville rally are indicted

Nearly six years after white nationalists in Virginia clashed with counter-protesters, a grand jury indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches intended to intimidate.

April 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Business

Fox News averts major defamation trial by settling with Dominion Voting Systems

Fox News lawyers reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems just before trial was to begin. The voting-tech company sued Fox for falsehoods it broadcast after the 2020 presidential election.

April 18, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik

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  • Health

Teen with life-threatening depression finally found hope. Then insurance cut her off

Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee

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  • Law

Supreme Court conservatives seem divided in major religion case

The justices heard arguments Tuesday in a case about how far employers must go to accommodate the religious views of their employees.

April 18, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg

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  • Law

Who bears the burden, and how much, when religious employees refuse Sabbath work?

The Supreme Court hears arguments in an important case that pits religious employees against others who have to pick up the slack on Sundays.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Independence Hall in Philadelphia, May 4, 2022. The National Park Service plans to install gas-fired boilers at Independence National Historical Park, despite a 2007 law mandating new and remodeled federal buildings be 100% free of fossil fuels by 2030.

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  • Climate

A 15-year-old law would end fossil fuels in federal buildings, but it's on hold

A 2007 law could help the country meet its climate change goals by barring fossil fuels from new and remodeled federal buildings. But the law has been on hold and gas utilities want to repeal it.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
The FBI seal is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, D.C. in 2016.

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  • Law

An Air National Guardsman was arrested after allegedly applying to be a hitman online

21-year-old Josiah Ernesto Garcia of Hermitage, Tenn., has been charged with the use of interstate facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. He could face 10 years in prison if convicted.

April 18, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses with Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Chief Justice John Roberts pose for their official portrait in 2022.

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  • Law

How questions about Justice Thomas' ethics could harm the Supreme Court's reputation

After repeated reports of ethics violations by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a Senate panel plans to review ethics standards for Supreme Court justices.

April 18, 2023
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  • Ally Schweitzer
A six story glass facade building, center, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown, Monday, April 17, 2023.

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  • National

FBI arrests 2 on charges tied to Chinese outpost in New York City

In addition to the two arrests, U.S. authorities charged about three dozen officers with China's national police force with using social media to harass dissidents inside the United States.

April 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters in New York on April 12.

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  • Media

The $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News trial starts Tuesday. Catch up here

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp. for knowingly airing false claims that its machines rigged the 2020 election against then-President Donald Trump.

April 17, 2023
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  • Mary Yang
A Dominion Voting logo appears on a voting machine as it is tested while Clark County Election Department workers set up a polling place in Las Vegas last year.

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  • Media

The math behind Dominion Voting System's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News

If Dominion prevails in its massive defamation suit against Fox News, a big challenge for the voting tech company will be to demonstrate that it deserves more than $1 billion in damages.

April 17, 2023
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By:
  • Bente Birkeland
Bottles of prescription pills go through an automated packaging machine in a pharmacy plant. The Supreme Court on Tuesday hears a case that considers whether pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicare and Medicaid under the False Claims Act.

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  • Law

Supreme Court looks at whether Medicare and Medicaid were overbilled under fraud law

Arguments on Tuesday center on a powerful tool for fighting fraud in government contracts and programs. The case examines whether major pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicare and Medicaid.

April 17, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
Former Seattle SuperSonics forward Shawn Kemp, center, attends a WNBA basketball game between the Seattle Storm and the Chicago Sky on May 18, 2022, in Seattle. Prosecutors in Washington state charged Kemp on Friday, April 14, 2023, with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cell phone.

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  • Law

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp is charged with 1st-degree assault in a March shooting

Kemp said he was shot at first after he tracked down his stolen cell phone and confronted the person he presumed had it. Kemp was released from jail and not initially charged after the incident.

April 17, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
An exam room is seen inside Planned Parenthood Friday, March 10, 2023, in Fairview Heights, Ill.

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  • Health

Out-of-staters are flocking to places where abortions are easier to get

States with strong abortion rights protections are seeing many more abortion seekers, mostly from neighboring states with abortion restrictions.

April 16, 2023
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By:
  • Mallika Seshadri
Security guards stand outside the entrance to the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Friday. Jack Teixeira, 21, an employee of the U.S. Air Force National Guard, appeared at the federal court Friday.

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  • Law

Suspected leaker of secret Pentagon documents arraigned in Massachusetts

A federal judge in Boston has ordered Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, to remain in custody until his detention hearing next week.

April 15, 2023
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  • Deepa Shivaram
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