Wednesday was the second day of a nine-day preliminary hearing that will determine whether two anti-abortion activists charged with recording people without their consent as part of a heavily edited video meant to embarrass abortion providers will be put on trial.
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The White House is bristling Wednesday after a federal judge reinstate press access to a Playboy reporter whose clash with a former adviser to the president went viral this summer.
Read moreA federal judge said Tuesday he hopes to rule within the next week on the press-pass challenge brought by a Playboy reporter whose confrontation with a former Trump administration official at the White House went viral.
Read moreThe expected melee between extreme right wing protesters and antifascist counter-demonstrators didn’t fully materialize Saturday, resolving with a handful of scattered arrests as far right organizers in town from Utah and Florida called the rally “a success” while retreating to drink beer at a barbecue.
Read moreLawyers for the victims of a violent rally two years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, have asked a federal judge to stop a high-profile white nationalist from threatening them or their clients online.
Read moreRight-wing conspiracy website Infowars agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit Monday by turning over profits it made from selling an alt-right poster featuring artist Matt Furie’s cartoon “Pepe the Frog” design.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Monday that a jury should decide whether the right-wing conspiracy website Infowars’ use of the Pepe the Frog cartoon on a 2017 alt-right poster infringed the artist’s copyright or amounted to political free speech.
Read moreThe publisher of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website who unleashed a “troll storm” on a Jewish family in Montana failed to show up for a deposition in New York, leading to an entry of default against him Tuesday.
Read moreInfowars creator and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is facing multiple defamation lawsuits over false comments made about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, will have to face another defamation lawsuit, this time over the Charlottesville white supremacist rallies that ended in the death of counter protester Heather Heyer.
Read moreA New Jersey college lecturer who lost his job after he touted Adolph Hitler as “a great European leader” does not have a case for defamation, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice claims against the University of California, Berkeley, stemming from riots that erupted after the school canceled a speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017, but allowed claims against two UC Berkeley police officers handling the crowd to continue.
Read moreEscalating a feud among conspiracy theorists, Jerome Corsi and lawyer Larry Klayman brought a federal defamation complaint late Thursday against Alex Jones and his Infowars website.
Read moreThe Coast Guard lieutenant who prosecutors say was plotting a mass killing of lawmakers and media members must remain in detention while he awaits trial on drug and gun charges, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreA U.S. Coast Guard officer and self-proclaimed white nationalist was arrested last week after investigators discovered a cache of weapons in his Maryland home, as well as a hit list of journalists and Democratic politicians and activists, according to court documents.
Read moreAdvancing a bid for evidence that participants in the fatal 2017 Unite the Right rally had geared up for racially motivated violence, a federal judge rejected a motion to quash Tuesday by a white supremacist blogger.
Read moreThe IRS has returned tax-exempt status to a white nationalist group that for years did not file tax returns, group leader Richard Spencer announced Thursday.
Read moreYou won’t be able use PayPal anymore to buy fluoride-free toothpaste or a bottle of The Real Red Pill Plus from right-wing conspiracy promulgator Alex Jones.
Read moreA woman accused of helping to coordinate violence at a deadly “alt-right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year can no longer hide her identity from victims, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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