A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the government to disclose to him and to plaintiffs’ attorneys a list of private organizations that receive access to the government’s list of known or suspected terrorists. Judge John Anderson issued the ruling at ...
Read More »Kansas Supreme Court suspends lawyer for three years
The Kansas Supreme Court has suspended for at least three years the license of a Kansas City-area attorney after finding she violated ethics laws in her representation of an elderly couple and a man in an employment lawsuit. On Feb. ...
Read More »New attorney general in hot seat as Mueller report nears
William Barr has been attorney general for just one week but is on the cusp of staring down what will almost certainly be the most consequential decision of his long career: how much of the special counsel’s findings to make ...
Read More »Democrats prepare resolution against Trump’s declaration
House Democrats will file a resolution Friday aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump has issued to help finance his wall along the Southwest border, teeing up a clash over billions of dollars, immigration policy and ...
Read More »Advocates say US still separates migrant families needlessly
Months after the Trump administration announced an end to its widescale separation of migrant parents and children, the policy remains a heated issue in the courts and at the border as critics contend the government is still needlessly breaking up ...
Read More »Police: ‘Empire’ actor staged attack to ‘promote his career’
“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist and homophobic attack because he was unhappy about his salary and wanted to promote his career, Chicago’s police superintendent said Thursday. Before the attack, Smollett also sent a threatening letter that targeted himself ...
Read More »Court: Constitutional ban on high fines applies to states
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the court’s ...
Read More »Judge orders Roger Stone to court over Instagram post
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Roger Stone to appear in court to consider whether to revoke his bail after the Trump confidant posted a photo on Instagram of the judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun. ...
Read More »Poll: Rural/urban political divisions also split the suburbs
America’s suburbs are today’s great political battleground, long seen as an independent pivot between the country’s liberal cities and conservative small towns and rural expanse. But it’s not that simple. It turns out that these places in-between may be the ...
Read More »25 years later, Missouri hazing death consequences remain
Twenty-five years after Michael Davis died from injuries suffered in a brutal fraternity hazing ritual at Southeast Missouri State University, his death still has far-reaching consequences. Davis was pledging the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity when he died from internal bleeding ...
Read More »Border wall a complex issue for 2020 prospect Beto O’Rourke
When President Donald Trump visited Beto O’Rourke’s hometown to argue that walling off the southern border would make the U.S. safer, the former Democratic congressman and possible 2020 presidential hopeful was ready. As the president filled an El Paso arena ...
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