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News Articles: Law

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the day the court released a report on its investigation into a leaked draft opinion in May 2022.

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  • Law

Supreme Court says justices were interviewed about the leaked draft opinion

The court marshal clarified Friday that she spoke with the Supreme Court justices about the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade for her recent report. The justices were not asked to sign affidavits.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Lensa, an AI photo app developed by Prisma Labs, saw its popularity skyrocket with the introduction in November of its "Magic Avatar" feature that turned selfies into images that strikingly resembled professional digital art.

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  • Technology

A rocky past haunts the mysterious company behind the Lensa AI photo app

Little was previously known about the artificial intelligence company founded by five Russian tech workers who for years have been quietly developing AI tools from its homebase of Cyprus.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Demonstrators carry placards during a rally and march on June 27, 2020, over the death of Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colo.

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  • National

Colorado police officers and paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain death case

The charges stem from the role they are accused of playing in the 2019 death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative called ketamine.

January 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this courtroom sketch, defendant Lawrence Ray (left) makes a statement during his sentencing in Manhattan federal court on Friday in New York, as his defense attorney, Peggy Cross-Goldenberg looks on.

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  • National

Ex-convict who abused his daughter's college roommates gets 60 years in prison

An ex-convict who obtained millions of dollars by subjecting his daughter's ex-roommates at Sarah Lawrence College to forced labor and prostitution was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison.

January 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time while speaking Nov. 15 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Law

A judge fines Trump and his lawyer for a 'frivolous' suit against his political foes

In a blistering filing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks described Trump as "a prolific and sophisticated litigant" with a "pattern of abuse of the courts."

January 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • National

The State Department launches a new way for ordinary Americans to resettle refugees

With refugee resettlement organizations stretched thin, the U.S. is trying a different approach. The new private sponsorship program will allow groups of regular people to sponsor refugees.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Prosecutors in Santa Fe, N.M., have announced involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin in connection with the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.

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  • National

Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in 'Rust' shooting death

Prosecutors announced charges against Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the film Rust. Baldwin was rehearsing a scene when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed.

January 20, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
A Romanian official says a judge has granted prosecutors another request to extend by 30 days the detention of Andrew Tate.

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  • Europe

A Romanian judge approves a 30-day extension of Andrew Tate's detention

A judge has granted a request to extend the arrest of Tate, the social media personality who was detained in Romania on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape.

January 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A San Francisco art gallery owner who was seen on video spraying water on a homeless woman with a hose has been arrested, according to authorities. Here, San Francisco police cars sit parked in front of the Hall of Justice on February 27, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

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  • National

A San Francisco business owner is arrested after spraying homeless woman with a hose

If convicted, 71-year-old Collier Gwin could face up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine, officials say. The case remains under investigation.

January 19, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
The Marshal of the Supreme Court is unable to identify a person who leaked the <em>Dobbs </em>decision, according to a Supreme Court release Thursday.

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  • Law

Supreme Court is unable to ID the leaker in Dobbs decision

The court called the leak "one of the worst breaches of trust in its history." The Marshal of the Supreme Court "has to date been unable to identify a person responsible," the court said Thursday.

January 19, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
Wilbert Lee Evans (left) and Alton Waye were executed in 1990 and 1989. NPR obtained tapes that recorded their deaths. You can hear them below.

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  • Investigations

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

January 19, 2023
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  • Chiara Eisner
Adult film star Ron Jeremy listens as his attorney Stuart Goldfarb speaks during his arraignment on rape and sexual assault charges at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on June 26, 2020.

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  • Law

Ron Jeremy's accusers are disappointed the former porn star won't go to trial

A judge declared the former porn icon incompetent to stand trial, putting the sexual assault case against 69-year-old Jeremy on hold.

January 19, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
"No one understands it," says Sylvia Cunningham of how she and her husband, Brandon, holding Braxton, 2, got three of their children returned from foster care, including daughter Jordan, 17 (at left), but a court allowed one son to be placed for adoption because the Cunninghams had failed to pay part of the bill for foster care.

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  • Investigations

In some states, an unpaid foster care bill could mean parents lose their kids forever

Some states allow children to be removed from their parents if they fail to pay the cost of foster care. But that can be hundreds of dollars a month, and it's often the poorest families who must pay.

January 19, 2023
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  • Joseph Shapiro
GPB  NPR

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  • Your Health

The U.S. faces 'unprecedented uncertainty' regarding abortion law, legal scholar says

Roe author Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at the very beginning of something very confusing."

January 18, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
The Effingham County School District logo is displayed on a clear glass wall inside a building.

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  • Law

Lawsuit: Georgia school district lowered Black student's GPA after he reported racist Snapchats

Grades were allegedly changed from A's to C's in retaliation.

January 18, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
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