The president agreed with the attorney general that releasing the recordings could make it less likely for witnesses in high-profile investigations to cooperate in the future.
Republicans seeking to cast aspersions on President Biden’s mental acuity are angling to punish the attorney general for refusing to turn over audio recordings from a probe into the president’s handling of classified documents.
Cohen answered for his past statements about Trump, including one tweet in which he called the former president "Dumbass Donald."
While Fico is expected to live, the shooting shocked the EU and added to the pall over upcoming European Parliament elections.
South Africa requested emergency measures for a fourth time since launching proceedings at the court late last year, citing "massive, indiscriminate violence and starvation" in Gaza.
Trump reportedly promised that, in exchange for $1 billion in campaign contributions, he'd roll back Biden's environmental regulations when he's reelected.
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Payday lenders lost a Supreme Court fight to defund a financial watchdog agency aimed at reining in predatory practices.
In a unanimous ruling, the justices found that judges must stay a proceeding when a party requests, an obligation Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "impervious to judicial discretion."
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The complicated legal dispute centers on Château Miraval, the former power couple's French estate and vineyard. Jolie sold her half to a Russian billionaire after the couple divorced, and Pitt is suing to undo the sale.
Surf City can't refuse to plan for more housing because of concerns over violating the California Environmental Quality Act, a judge in San Diego ruled.
A decade after missing a deadline to appeal his furlough, the Supreme Court handed a federal employee an extension.
An artist hired by the hockey organization to build a better relationship with American Indian groups claims she was the victim of fraud and sexual harassment before she was fired.
Prosecutors are having witnesses read excerpts from Trump's books to paint him as a vindictive micromanager obsessed with his image.
California lawmakers debate energy bill a week after utility regulator’s major rate-structure change
The bill now advances to the California Assembly's Appropriations Committee.
The nearly 2,000-mile river that divides Texas and Mexico, Texas deputy solicitor general Lanora Pettit told the judges, is no more than “a creek with an excellent publicist.”
North Carolina is removing a provision that allowed members of the public to wear masks for health reasons as Republican lawmakers attempt to crack down on disruptive protesters.
Enforcing regulations against deepfakes is likely to be challenging, experts say.
John Barrow, a former Democratic congressman, sought to block a state judicial ethics committee from proceeding with an investigation into whether sanctions should be imposed for his campaign statements on reproductive rights.
Police officers claim they were exposed to radioactive material and other hazards while working at Hunters Point.
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The measure, introduced by Florida Representative Byron Donalds, would do away with sentencing guidelines for the capital city allowing lighter penalties for younger offenders.
Officials said Nicaragua is profiting off illegal migration to the United States and is stifling human rights.
Ventura County prosecutors presented evidence at a preliminary hearing that showed Paul Kessler's blood was on the megaphone used by Loay Alnaji.
The $20 billion tunnel in the Golden State's expansive delta is worth the costs and risks because it will improve precious water collection efforts, according to officials.
The change comes as part of a federal court order aimed at addressing the long-term effects of coal mining on the environment. Nonetheless, some Republicans have criticized the Biden administration for complying.
The majority found simply including LGBTQ-inclusive books in curriculum doesn't burden religious freedoms.
The groups say the permitted project will introduce sediment and fertilizer-laden water from the Mississippi River into a vital swamp habitat.
Rulings
An appeals court in Texas upheld the trial court’s decision to admit a confession and evidence obtained in a warrantless search during the trial of a former Border Patrol agent accused of murdering four women, all sex workers. He “voluntarily waived his right to remain silent” when he told investigators that “he was ‘clean[ing] up the streets’ of Laredo,” and authorities had probable cause to search his vehicle when they saw a purse belonging to a woman who escaped from him “in plain view” on his truck’s floorboard.
An appeals court in Texas vacated a $222 million judgment granted to the widow of a worker who was killed in a steam accident at a Kansas coal-fired power plant. The “grossly excessive” award was partially due to improper arguments made by the widow’s counsel, who encouraged the jury to punish the industrial services provider that had serviced the plant’s relief valves before the accident. Additionally, the case belongs in Kansas, so it is dismissed for forum non conveniens.
A federal court in Washington, applying precedent from the Federal Circuit, ruled that the doctrine of prosecution laches may be invoked as an affirmative defense by those who seek a finding that a patent is unenforceable. When the Patent and Trademark Office can show a patentee’s delay in prosecution is unreasonable and that such delay prejudiced an accused infringer, the defense may render the patent in question unenforceable.
New York’s high court reversed an appellate division’s ruling in a lawsuit between wounded employees and the Bronx hospital that employed them. A former worker committed a mass shooting in the building, killing one doctor and himself and wounding five others. An injured employee’s claim for workers’ compensation will proceed because there is a “rebuttable presumption ” that, when an injury occurs at work, it arose from the injured worker’s employment. That presumption applies and was not rebutted in this case.
An appeals court in Pennsylvania upheld the life sentence of a criminal defendant who committed a hired murder when he shot and killed the romantic partner of his client’s former paramour. He says certain witness testimony should not have been admitted and that his due process rights were violated, but these arguments are meritless.
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A public library's policy banning new books about sex — and stopping anyone under 17 from accessing current titles about gender and sexuality — violates kids' First Amendment rights, Read Freely Alabama says.
Port of Oakland commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to change the name of Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport — and slapped SFO with a counterclaim in their ongoing trademark dispute.
The Ridge Wallet Company, which sells plastic and metal wallets marketed to millennial and Gen Z men, accuses a company based out of Shenzhen, China, of selling knockoff "Ridge" wallets.
The U.S. Justice Department hit the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with a lawsuit after a prison clerk complained she was barred from wearing a head covering for religious reasons.
More than 250 people say the city of San Diego underfunded and neglected its storm drain system for years, causing their homes to flood on Jan. 22, 2024. They are asking for $100 million in damages.
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