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Donald Trump sits in a Manhattan criminal courtroom with members of his legal team for the continuation of his hush money trial on April 25, 2024 in New York City.

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  • Law

Manhattan prosecutors ask for additional pause in Trump hush-money criminal case

Manhattan prosecutors are asking for a further pause in the criminal trial against President-elect Donald Trump in order to give both sides time to weigh the unprecedented nature of the situation.

November 19, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse in Houston for a bankruptcy hearing in June.

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  • National

The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on

The Onion thought it had the last laugh when it was named the winning bidder after last week's bankruptcy auction. Now, Jones says that bid was "fake dollars" and wants a judge to disqualify it

November 19, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
Leander Antwione Williams, identified by the FBI as the man with a “W” on his shirt, is seen on bodycam footage in an altercation with police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Politics

Former NFL, Ga. Southern player in Savannah arrested on Jan. 6 charges, due in DC court this week

Former Detroit Lion and Georgia Southern University football player Leander Antwione Williams is charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

November 18, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
The entrance to the Labor Department is seen near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 7, 2020.

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  • Law

Judge blocks Biden administration's rule to expand overtime pay for millions

A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.

November 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Malcolm X's daughters, Malikah Shabazz (from left), Attallah Shabazz, Malaak Shabazz and Gamilah Shabazz, talk to the media outside the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York, following the death of their mother, Betty Shabazz on June 23, 1997. A new lawsuit accuses the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.

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  • National

Malcolm X's daughters sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination

A $100 million lawsuit claims the agencies were aware of and were involved in the1965 assassination plot and failed to stop the killing of the civil rights leader.

November 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A supporter holds a sign with a photo of Laken Riley before former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on March 9 in Rome, Ga.

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  • National

Murder trial begins for man accused of killing Georgia student Laken Riley

The 22-year-old nursing student's death fueled an emotional and politically charged debate over immigration and crime after authorities said the suspect was a man who entered the U.S. illegally.

November 15, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside the federal courthouse after a June bankruptcy hearing in Houston.

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  • National

The Onion wins auction for Alex Jones' media company

The sale must be approved by a bankruptcy judge. Proceeds will go to paying down the $1.5 billion debt that Jones owes families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who won two defamation suits against him.

November 15, 2024
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  • Tovia Smith
A screenshot from the bodycam footage shows 70-year-old Lich Vu before he was slammed to the ground by an Oklahoma City police officer on Oct. 27.

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  • National

Oklahoma City cop is investigated for slamming 70-year-old man to the ground

Lich Vu has been in the hospital since the Oct. 27 incident that left him with a brain bleed and a broken neck. The altercation with the police officer involved a dispute over a traffic ticket.

November 14, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson speaks, with DACA recipient Greisa Martinez Rosa, left, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, right, after leaving the Supreme Court after oral arguments were heard in the case of President Trump's decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Nov. 12, 2019.

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  • Obituaries

Remembering Ted Olson, a titan of the law

Ted Olson, the Bush-era solicitor general, has died at age 84. He was a towering figure in the legal profession who argued 65 cases at the Supreme Court as solicitor general and as a private lawyer.

November 13, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones, pictured in June, says even if his show and its parent company, Free Speech Systems, are shut down as a result of the auction, he will not be silenced.

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  • National

'Jump ball' for Alex Jones' media empire as it hits the auction block today

Live bidding will be private, and the future owner of Jones' company will be public once court papers are filed. The proceeds will go to pay Sandy Hook families who won defamation cases against Jones.

November 13, 2024
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  • Tovia Smith
This artist depiction shows Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira (right) appearing in U.S. District Court in Boston on April 14, 2023.

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  • National

Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in prison

A federal judge sentenced Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guard member, to prison after he pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine.

November 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on the first day of a new term in Washington, D.C, on Oct. 7.

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  • Law

Supreme Court refuses legal lifesaver for former Trump chief of staff

The Supreme Court dealt a major legal blow to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday, refusing to move the Georgia election interference charges against him to federal court.

November 12, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
A "weed" sign advertises a cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles. With a new Trump administration coming into the White House, marijuana could remain on a path toward relaxed federal restrictions.

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  • National

Trump plans to revoke many Biden policies. Where does that leave marijuana?

The president-elect recently affirmed that he supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use. His stance means cannabis could be a rare issue on which Trump carries a Biden policy forward.

November 11, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Many women, as well as some men, took to social media to share tales of sexual harassment and assault during glitzy legal tech events.

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  • Law

She was harassed at a tech conference. Now other women are sharing #MeToo moments

Fed up with what they see as their industry's tolerance of men's transgressions and predatory behavior, women are telling their stories — in person, in group chats and on LinkedIn.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Bill Chappell
Abortion rights supporters are seen gathering for a "pink out" protest organized by Planned Parenthood in the rotunda of the Wisconsin Capitol, June 22, 2022, in Madison, Wis.

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  • Law

Wisconsin high court to hear arguments on whether an 1849 abortion ban remains valid

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

November 11, 2024
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