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Texas teen who fatally stabbed track athlete at school meet found guilty
Trial Coverage 06/11/2026A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a high school meet was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday in a case that drew wide attention beyond the booming Dallas suburb where...
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Supreme Court Backs Trump administration on Telecom Regulation
Trial Coverage 06/05/2026The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies.The 8-1 decision preserved one of the Federal Communications Commission's key too...
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Washington tourist pleads not guilty in Hawaiian monk seal rock case
Trial Coverage 06/01/2026A tourist from Washington state pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges accusing him of hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal and was ordered to stay away from Hawaii beaches.Igor Lytvynchuk, 38, of Covington, Washington, w...
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Court sides with Trump in dispute over immigration judges' speech restrictions
Trial Coverage 05/27/2026The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with President Donald Trump's administration in a lawsuit over speech restrictions for immigration judges that touched on the rights of federal workers.The justices overturned a lower-court ruling that had allowed t...
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Federal judge finds Pentagon is violating court order to restore access to reporters
Trial Coverage 04/13/2026A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters, a setback in the administration's efforts to impede the work of journalists.U.S. District Judge Paul Friedma...
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Army sergeant wants to plead guilty in Georgia base shootings that injured 5
Trial Coverage 03/13/2026An Army sergeant accused of shooting and wounding five co-workers at a southeast Georgia base last summer is seeking to plead guilty to attempted murder and other charges in a military court, Army prosecutors said Thursday.Authorities say Sgt. Quorne...
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College president pleads guilty before Arkansas fraud trial
Trial Coverage 03/09/2026The president of a Christian college in Springdale pleaded guilty to a fraud charge Wednesday, admitting he took part in what prosecutors called a kickback scheme involving his school.Oren Paris III had faced a trial Monday with former state Sen. Jon...
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Justices wary of ‘Obamacare’ birth control coverage changes
Trial Coverage 04/27/2020The Supreme Court seemed concerned Wednesday about the sweep of Trump administration rules that would allow more employers who cite a religious or moral objection to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women as required by the Affordable Ca...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Trial Coverage 05/05/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Trial Coverage 04/25/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Court: No right to copy court reporter’s recordings
Trial Coverage 10/30/2017Georgia’s highest court says the makers of a popular podcast series do not have the right to copy audio recordings made during a murder trial by a court reporter.The second season of the “Undisclosed” podcast featured the case of Jo...
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Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts
Trial Coverage 10/11/2017An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison.The five men were convicted earlier of criminal conspi...