There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the ...
Read More »5 months after Chattanooga, feds quiet on any terror links
It took about two days for the FBI to announce it was investigating the Dec. 2 attack that killed 14 in San Bernardino, California, as an act of terror. Nearly five months after the killing of five military personnel in ...
Read More »Missouri Planned Parenthood denies abortion record request
A Missouri Planned Parenthood branch will not to comply with a subpoena to give abortion-related records to Republican state lawmakers, the women’s health group said Friday. In a letter provided to AP and sent to Senate President Pro Tem Ron ...
Read More »Clemency denied for man after someone else confesses
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner rejected posthumous clemency for an Illinois man imprisoned for the stabbing of an elderly woman, even though a serial killer confessed to the crime more than a decade after the inmate died. Grover Thompson died in ...
Read More »3 weeks in jail for man who disrupted gay marriage arguments
A protester who disrupted historic arguments over gay marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court was sentenced Thursday to 21 days in jail. Rives Miller Grogan, 50, of Mansfield, Texas, had previously pleaded guilty to illegally demonstrating inside the court. Lawyers were ...
Read More »Ex-Oklahoma cop’s rape conviction symbol of national problem
The teenager’s mother clapped her hands and screamed with joy as she watched an Oklahoma City jury convict a former police officer of raping her daughter and sexually assaulting seven other women. Minutes after 29-year-old Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty, ...
Read More »Kansas case touches on high court’s power, judicial funding
Attorneys on both sides of a dispute over the Kansas Supreme Court’s power that threatens the judiciary’s entire budget conceded Thursday that legislators whose actions sparked the conflict also have some oversight of the courts. The high court heard arguments in ...
Read More »McCaskill donates $10K for sexual harassment resources
Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday that she donated $10,000 to an advocacy group to help interns facing sexual harassment, an issue that drew national attention to the state Legislature after the resignations this year of two lawmakers accused ...
Read More »Missouri high court weighs sex abuse suit against Boy Scouts
A man who says he was sexually abused for years by his scoutmaster should be allowed to sue the Boy Scouts of America even though he missed a deadline to do so by years, the man’s attorney argued before the ...
Read More »GOP report: Administration misled Congress on Bergdahl swap
House Republicans are claiming in a new report that the Obama administration misled Congress about the effort to release five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the militant group for ...
Read More »Japanese cars do best in insurance industry safety rankings
Japanese brands dominate the insurance industry’s rankings of the safest vehicles for the 2016 model year. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that 48 vehicles earned its highest rating of “Top Safety Pick Plus.” That’s up from 33 ...
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