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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
Recent Cases 06/19/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy
Recent Cases 06/16/2024Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...
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Tunisian trial shines light on use of military courts
Recent Cases 11/24/2021A few days after Tunisia’s president froze parliament and took on sweeping powers in July, a dozen men in unmarked vehicles and civilian clothes barged into politician Yassine Ayari’s family home overnight and took him away in his pajamas...
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US Supreme Court allows lawsuit against troopers to proceed
Recent Cases 10/06/2021The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two state police officers accused of failing to protect a woman from a man who went on a deadly rampage, allowing a civil lawsuit to proceed. Troopers were accused of failing to do enough when Brit...
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Mayor’s husband pleads not guilty to drug, weapons counts
Recent Cases 05/20/2021The husband of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren pleaded not guilty to criminal drug and weapons charges Thursday, a day after a police search of the house he shares with the mayor. Timothy Granison appeared via video in Rochester City Court from the Mon...
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Judge: Pretrial release OK for man accused in Capitol riot
Recent Cases 05/14/2021A judge has ruled that one of two Oregon brothers accused in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will be released from custody Friday to a third-party guardian, where he will be on home detention and GPS monitoring pending his trial. U.S. District J...
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Trump made lasting impact on federal courts
Recent Cases 12/28/2020On this, even President Donald Trump’s most fevered critics agree: he has left a deep imprint on the federal courts that will outlast his one term in office for decades to come.He used the promise of conservative judicial appointments to win ov...
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Wisconsin’s pandemic election puts focus on state’s court
Recent Cases 04/02/2020Anyone needing proof of the power and significance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court can look no further than the lines of mask-wearing voters that stretched for hours in Milwaukee during an election held despite a stay-at-home order because of the coro...
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Trump ally Roger Stone sentenced to over 3 years in prison
Recent Cases 02/15/2020Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for obstructing a congressional investigation in a case that has sparked fears about presidential interference in the justice syste...
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Myanmar rejects court probe into crimes against Rohingyas
Recent Cases 11/11/2019Myanmar’s government rejected the International Criminal Court’s decision to allow prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority.Government spokesman Zaw Htay said at a Friday night press ...
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Appeals court agrees Trump tax returns can be turned over
Recent Cases 11/04/2019President Donald Trump’s tax returns can be turned over to New York prosecutors by his personal accountant, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, leaving the last word to the Supreme CourtThe decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
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Court opens way to send ex-Mozambique minister to US trial
Recent Cases 10/30/2019Former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang faces the prospect of being extradited to the United States to face trial after a South African court on Friday ruled against him being sent to his home country.Chang's fate is now with South African Ju...