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Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to ‘find’ him votes
Featured Articles 01/05/2021President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising th...
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Appeals court vacates order delaying woman’s execution
National News 01/01/2021A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.The ruling, handed down Friday by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Co...
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Parents Plead Not Guilty to Charges in Missouri Girl's Death
Featured Articles 12/28/2020The parents of a 4-year-old Missouri girl allegedly killed by neighbors to remove a “demon” pleaded not guilty Monday to charges connected to the case. Mary S. Mast, 29, and James A. Mast, 28, both of Lincoln, Missouri, were charged Thurs...
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Longtime Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Abrahamson dies
U.S. Court News 12/20/2020Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has died. She was 87. Abrahamson, who also served as chief justice for a record 19 years, died Saturday after bei...
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Justices order review of Colorado, New Jersey worship limits
Legal Events 12/15/2020The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower federal courts in Colorado and New Jersey to reexamine state restrictions on indoor religious services to combat the coronavirus in light of the justices’ recent ruling in favor of churches and synagog...
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Justices rule Muslim men can sue FBI agents over no-fly list
Verdicts & Settlements 12/11/2020A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Muslim men who were placed on the government’s no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants can seek to hold federal agents financially liable.The justices continued a string of de...
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High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court
Featured Articles 12/07/2020Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million.Over a steak dinner at a New York City restaurant in the 1990s he had asked h...
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Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election
Featured Articles 11/29/2020Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President...
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Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania race
Legal Events 11/27/2020President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election results. Trump’s lawyer...
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Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong taken into custody after guilty plea
Featured Articles 11/24/2020Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and two other activists were taken into custody Monday after they pleaded guilty to charges related to a demonstration outside police headquarters during anti-government protests last year.Wong, ...
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US government executes man convicted of killing Texas teen
Legal Events 11/20/2020Orlando Hall got stiffed on a drug deal and went to a Texas apartment looking for the two brothers who took his money. They weren’t home, but their 16-year-old sister was.Late Thursday, Hall was put to death for abducting and killing the teenag...
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Court weighs challenge to Colorado discrimination law
Legal Compliance 11/17/2020A Colorado web designer should not have to create wedding websites for same-sex couples under the state's anti-discrimination law because it would amount to forced speech that violates her religious beliefs, a lawyer told an appeals court Monday.Kris...