A pledge to close the health and wellbeing gap between Aboriginal and other Australians is failing, the government admitted Wednesday, describing the situation as a source of “national shame.”
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In a lawsuit that decries the “fraternity culture” at Goldman Sachs, a former intern says he suffered a traumatic brain injury after being choked to unconsciousness by one of its wealth advisers.
Read moreA man working as security personnel during an NBA finals match is suing Masai Ujiri, as well as the Toronto Raptors and the NBA, claiming in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that the Raptors’ president physically attacked him during a game.
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Rejecting an immunity defense, a federal judge refused to dismiss claims brought by a group of protesters who were beaten by Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s security personnel during his visit to the White House three years ago.
Read moreA father was properly sentenced for assault convictions relating to the abuse of his three teenage children who were imprisoned in a squalid bedroom in his ex-wife’s home, an Iowa appeals court ruled. One of the children died of emaciation. The father had challenged the court’s statements comparing his conduct to the “inaction of bystanders during the Holocaust and the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar.”
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The Connecticut woman who drove through security checkpoints outside President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club Friday, prompting Secret Service to open fire on her, has a history of mental illness and was off her medication at the time of the incident, her attorney claimed.
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After drawing law enforcement scrutiny for dancing on her vehicle at an upscale hotel Friday morning, a woman took police on a high-speed chase towards President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, driving through security barriers until officers opened fire.
Read moreA family claims Utah Probation and Parole officers swarmed into their house looking for a man they knew was not there, beat family members without reason and stole $7,000 from the house, in federal court.
Read moreJamie Frontz sued light heavyweight boxing champ Sergey Kovalev in federal court, claiming he still owes $400,000 of the $650,000 he promised to pay to settle an assault lawsuit.
Read moreFour more former residents of The Glen Mills (reform) Schools claim they were assaulted by staff members, and three say they were sexually assaulted by them, bringing to five the number of such lawsuits this week, in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
Read moreA woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.
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Lawyers for Alec Baldwin applauded a judge Friday for tossing a slander claim tied to the Manhattan parking spot brawl that got their famous, and famously hot-headed, client arrested.
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Citing “constant reports of assaults,” Presiding Judge James Rogers closed the main entrance to the King County Courthouse in Seattle Tuesday.
Read moreParents of an 11-year-old boy sued Maury County, Tenn., its public schools and sheriff’s department, claiming school resource officer Timothy Byrdsong assaulted their son on campus, in an incident that was caught on video.
Read moreA California appeals court upheld the denial of Shia LaBeouf’s anti-SLAPP motion in a case relating to an altercation he had with a bartender who refused to serve the actor and his companion alcohol. LaBeouf called the bartender a “racist” and video footage of the incident was posted on the internet and broadcast on TMZ. The bartender sued for assault and slander.
Read moreA Mexican man sued the United States for $1 million in federal court, claiming a Border Patrol agent shot him from behind as he knelt on the ground, unarmed, in rural Webb County, Texas, for which the agent was charged with aggravated assault.
Read moreA sheriff’s deputy in southeast Tennessee accused of groping underage girls and baptizing a woman under duress was hit with a fourth lawsuit Wednesday.
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The Houston Astros fired their assistant general manager Thursday amid an investigation by Major League Baseball into comments he shouted at a group of female reporters as the team celebrated a pennant-clinching win last Saturday.
Read moreJacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreFederal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
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