Dollar General failed to show an employee who it claims threatened fellow co-workers leading up to a union ratification vote was acting as an agent of the union, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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The Philippines notified the United States on Tuesday it would end a major security pact allowing U.S. forces to train in the country, in the most serious threat under President Rodrigo Duterte to their 69-year treaty alliance.
Read moreA Marine veteran who posted on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Facebook page that he would “pay an ISIS terrorist with a nuke” to “burn the v.a. at 10 million degrees Fahrenheit,” was properly convicted of terroristic threatening, an appeals court in Arkansas ruled, finding that it was reasonable for the VA to take the statement and other parts of the post as a true threat.
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An attorney for President Donald Trump told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday adult film star Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against the president was an attempt to silence him after he questioned her story of being threatened to keep quiet about an alleged affair between them.
Read moreA class action claims Alaska Airlines threatened employees who dare to speak about alleged “fume events,” when cabin air is contaminated due to improper repairs or servicing after the merger with nonparty Virgin Air, in Alameda County Superior Court.
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Calling it “profoundly alarming” that Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, was the subject of threatening text messages, a lawmaker pressed the State Department on Wednesday for underlying documents.
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The refusal of Lithuanian authorities to prosecute online threats made against two gay men after a photo of them kissing amounts to a human rights violation, the European Court of Human Rights held Tuesday.
Read moreDefense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that he did not see evidence of four American embassies being threatened by Iran, contradicting President Trump’s justification last week for ordering a drone attack that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani.
Read moreA federal court in Oregon dismissed Republican state Senator Brian Boquist’s claims against other state legislators relating to his temporary bar from the state Capitol. After he and other Republicans walked out of a vote and the governor ordered state police to arrest them and bring them back, Boquist made threatening statements, including a warning that the police should “send bachelors and come heavily armed.”
Read moreA Texas trial court properly required certain Facebook posts at the center of a defamation case to be deleted as the litigation continues, an appeals court in the state ruled. The posts claimed that the plaintiff is a “Viet Cong spy living among the Vietnamese-American refugee population” and listed her address. The woman was threatened with violence and feared for her and her children’s safety.
Read moreFour police officers who arrested an anti-abortion protester over a perceived bomb threat are entitled to qualified immunity, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.
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A Colorado man accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday to three charges handed down by a federal grand jury.
Read moreA 13-year-old student who threatened to carry out a shooting at his South Los Angeles middle school had a list with the names of students and staff, a hand-drawn map of his school, and an AR-15 assault rifle at his home when he was arrested, police said Friday.
Read moreRoger Stone, longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, remains barred from social media after the D.C. Circuit refused to lift a gag order Tuesday.
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.
Read moreA Saudi Arabian who was granted political asylum in Canada sued Twitter and McKinsey & Co. in federal court for privacy invasion and fraud, claiming they exposed him and his family to violent retaliation, such as happened to his friend and colleague Jamal Khashoggi.
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At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested on allegations of plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the United States since the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue nearly one year ago, a Jewish civil rights group reported Sunday.
Read moreMinnesota prosecutors charged a man under an unconstitutional statute after he threatened to send video of his ex-girlfriend talking about marijuana to her employer, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
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