Tag: Courts
Court lets woman’s defamation suit vs. Trump proceed again
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump could face questioning under oath about a former “Apprentice” contestant's sexual assault allegations against him, following a...
Ex-police chief seeks to avoid prison in hiring scandal
HARTFORD, Conn. — The former police chief of Connecticut's largest city is urging a federal judge to not send him to prison for corrupting...
No ruling in case deciding fate of DACA immigration program
HOUSTON — A federal judge did not immediately rule Tuesday on a closely watched case over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood...
ICC holds reparations ceremony for Timbuktu mausoleums
BAMAKO, Mali — The International Criminal Court made a symbolic reparations payment of 1 euro to Malian officials on Tuesday, after paying for the...
Brother of Honduran president sentenced to life in drug case
NEW YORK — The brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday after he was convicted on drug...
Appeals court upholds constitutionality of terror watchlist
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a challenge to the constitutionality of the government's terrorist watchlist, ruling that the...
N Carolina NAACP sues to have Confederate monument removed
GRAHAM, N.,C. — The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking the removal of a Confederate monument which stands in...
Shooter at Kansas Jewish centers appeals death sentence
LIBERTY, Mo. — An avowed anti-Semite who shot three people to death at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites in 2014 is asking the...
Man jailed for sabotage of German high-speed railway line
BERLIN — A German court on Monday convicted a man of attempted murder and gave him a nearly 10-year prison sentence for removing hundreds...
Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina...
