Attorneys on Monday picked the jurors who will determine the fate of the first child of a sitting president to face a federal criminal trial. Hunter Biden faces three felony charges related to a firearm prosecutors say he bought illegally in 2018.
"We’re still going to vote for him,” shouted one Trump supporter outside of Manhattan's criminal court after the guilty verdict.
The Morena party candidate won with a projected 58% of the vote against her nearest competitor, Xóchitl Gálvez, who garnered about 26%, according to Mexico's National Electoral Institute.
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Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison if found guilty on all three charges, though experts say factors like years of sobriety would likely weigh in his favor.
The lawmaker, who has faced calls to step down amid a Justice Department investigation, previously said he would not run again as a Democrat and hinted at a potential third-party bid for office.
Prosecutors claim that Bill Guan, the right-wing paper's finance chief, ran the "Make Money Online" team that carried out the scam.
An associate of the New York organized crime family wants the high court to find that his attempted murder charge does not qualify as a crime of violence.
In a split decision Monday, the state's top court found that the amendment to reduce "systematic racism" in the criminal justice system can't be applied retroactively.
One of the wealthiest people in Washington avoided paying taxes over 15 years by claiming to live in Florida.
Google users from across the country showed they have a reasonable expectation to their tax information being kept private.
Ozy Media co-founder Samir Rao testified that he impersonated a YouTube executive to try and secure an investment from Goldman Sachs, with the help of CEO and founder Carlos Watson.
One of the wealthiest people in Washington avoided paying taxes over 15 years by claiming to live in Florida.
Craig Austin Lang faces a litany of charges across three states for murder, identity theft and armed robbery.
The senator is accused of accepting bribes from businessmen in his home state with ties to Egypt and Qatar in exchange for official acts while he was the leader of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The conservative activists behind the Supreme Court decision gutting affirmative action in academia garnered a federal appellate win — and a fervent dissent from one circuit judge.
A federal bankruptcy judge declined to immediately shut down and liquidate Free Speech Systems, the parent company of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ InfoWars, as bankruptcy proceedings against Jones and the company proceed.
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The high court turned down an invitation to weigh in on another Jan. 6 case.
Senate Bill 925 allows the city to create a list of commonly stolen items and require vendors in the city to obtain permits to sell goods on the list.
The three international carriers were cited for significant delays in providing refunds for Covid-19-related cancellations.
Fresh water "set the stage for life to flourish" around 500 million years earlier than we thought.
It's been two years since the Supreme Court rolled back the constitutional right to an abortion.
The appeals panel ruled that the supervisor was acting on behalf of himself, not the government, when he blocked Susan Reynolds' publication from his Twitter account in 2020.
The judges seemed unconvinced that a cooperative agreement between the two airlines on routes in the Northeast could survive antitrust scrutiny.
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A Florida appeals court quashed an order denying the state’s motion to apply a recently enacted law that requires only an 8-4 jury majority for a death penalty recommendation instead of the state’s previous law mandating a unanimous recommendation, which was in effect at the time of the murder. The new law specifically provides for its immediate effect, and a supermajority is still required in the second-stage of Florida’s three-stage death penalty proceedings.
The Fourth Circuit revived civil rights claims against two police officers who pepper sprayed an in-uniform Army officer, pushed him to the ground, and handcuffed him. The Army officer was pulled over for not having a rear license plate, but the temporary plate was clearly taped in the back window, and there was no cause for officers to immediately draw their weapons. The Army officer’s conduct throughout was calm and compliant, and the pepper spraying of a calm person who had his hands visible in a prolonged sign of surrender “was very excessive.”
The Fifth Circuit revived the Association of American Physicians' claims the American Board of Internal Medicine illegally censored doctors who spoke critically of Covid lockdowns, mask and vaccination mandates, and abortion by labeling dissenting views as disinformation and threatening to strip doctors of their credentials for expressing dissenting opinions. The Association has shown it suffered injury due to doctors choosing to self-censor rather than lose their certification. However, on remand the Association must prove that the board’s conduct qualifies as state action to proceed.
A federal judge dismissed a student's civil rights complaint alleging the New York University Law Review discriminates by giving preferential treatment to women, non-Asian, homosexual, and transgender students. The student fails to specifically allege how the Law Review collects such information from anonymized resumes, especially when the statement of interest is an optional component of the application. Any prediction as to how the Review will use information shared in the statement of interest is wholly speculative.
The California Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of misdemeanor charges against an 85-year-old property owner over an alleged unlicensed cannabis dispensary operating in her LA building. Despite the strict liability provision of the municipal code, the evidence shows the owner was totally ignorant of a covert cannabis enterprise on her property, so the court reasonably dismissed the state’s case in the interests of justice.
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A Jewish, disabled veteran, who is a resident of Davis, California, is suing the University of California-Davis, claiming a pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s quad violates his equal protection rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title VI.
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.
A Texas couple says their rented home was infested with bats, unbeknownst to them, which they discovered after investigating bug bites that turned out to be where bat bugs had burrowed into their skin. They say in a lawsuit they developed a lung infection and the homeowner evicted them rather than remove the bats.
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.
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.
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