Tag: Judiciary
Iraqi protesters take to streets, decry targeted killings
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of Iraqis took to the streets in Baghdad on Tuesday to protest what they say is the impunity of those behind...
Pork group asks USDA to support faster slaughterhouse speeds
DES MOINES, Iowa — A group representing slaughterhouses urged the federal government Tuesday to let them continue an effort to speed up the processing...
Charleston shooter lawyer: Racist delusion showed incapacity
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation was wrongly...
SC high court hears 1st suit in monument protection law
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court heard its first challenge to the state law protecting Confederate and other historical monuments since it...
State board urges renaming of 2 Virginia community colleges
RICHMOND, Va. — The board that oversees Virginia’s community colleges has asked two schools to reconsider their decisions to keep names that honor people...
Two BOP workers admit crimes on morning of Epstein’s death
NEW YORK — Two Bureau of Prisons guards admitted falsifying records Tuesday after financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail death in a deferred prosecution deal that...
Judge rules against Georgia in legal fight over Israel oath
ATLANTA — A federal judge has ruled that a Georgia law requiring some people to sign an oath involving Israel is unconstitutional.
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Judge: Man charged with bringing guns to DC had militia ties
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Vietnam veteran charged with bringing 11 molotov cocktails and other weapons to Washington on the day of the U.S. Capitol...
In death threat case, court nixes penalty Rep. Omar urged
NEW YORK — A rural New York man convicted of threatening the life of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won’t have to participate...
Nebraska inmates’ fight to wed ends after one of them dies
LINCOLN, Neb. — A man and a woman convicted in separate murders who fought the state of Nebraska for years for the right to...