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Sep 27 2023
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Delaware state trooper beats teen playing ‘ding-dong-ditch,’ is now facing charges, reports say
ELSMERE, Delaware — A Delaware state trooper has been charged with multiple crimes after he reportedly beat a 15-year-old who rang the doorbell of his home and then ran away, a prank known as “ding-dong-ditch.” Dempsey Walters, 29, is facing felony counts of second-degree assault and deprivation of civil rights, and two misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault and two misdemeanor counts of
Cleveland Plain DealerSep 22 2023
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Feds open investigation into claims Baton Rouge police tortured detainees in "Brave Cave"
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into claims that the police department for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, abused and tortured suspects, the FBI announced Friday. Numerous lawsuits allege that the Street Crimes Unit of the Baton Rouge Police Department abused drug suspects at a recently shuttered narcotics processing center — an unmarked warehouse nicknamed the "Brave
CBS News (Online)Sep 20 2023
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Merrick Garland Testifies: Republicans Set to Grill Attorney General in House Hearing
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland — a prime target for House Republicans seeking to push unproven claims that the Justice Department is protecting President Biden and his son Hunter Biden — is set to defend himself at a high-stakes, high-volume hearing on Wednesday. Mr. Garland will appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a routine oversight hearing that, in years past, would center
New York Times (News)Jun 05 2023
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Texas becomes largest state to ban transgender care for minors
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed a bill that bans transgender healthcare including puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors, making Texas the largest of the 20 states to have outlawed gender-affirming care.
Republican lawmakers across the country have promoted similar bills, saying they mistrust the consensus among major medical associations that endorse gender-
ReutersOct 02 2023
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Trump’s Fraud Trial Starts With Attacks on Attorney General and Judge
The trials of Donald J. Trump began Monday in a New York courtroom, where the former president made an appearance to fight the first of several government actions against him — a civil case that imperils his company and threatens his image as a master of the business world.
The case, brought by Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, takes aim at Mr. Trump’s boasts about his net
New York Times (News)Sep 06 2023
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Trump suffers big loss in E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge says he’s liable
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump is liable for defamatory statements he made about the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went public with claims he had raped her decades earlier.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, as part of that ruling, said that the upcoming trial for Carroll’s civil lawsuit against Trump will only deal with the question of how much the former president
CNBCOct 02 2023
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Trump reaped over $1 billion in fraud, New York says at trial
Donald Trump attacked New York's attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday and a state lawyer accused the former president of generating more than $1 billion by lying about his real estate empire.
The trial in a Manhattan courtroom concerns accusations by state Attorney General Letitia James that Trump inflated his assets and his own net worth
ReutersSep 21 2023
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Sophie Turner sues: Joe Jonas wrongfully keeping kids in the US, holding onto their passports
A lawsuit filed Thursday by Sophie Turner reveals the high-stakes, transatlantic custody battle brewing between the British actor and her estranged American husband Joe Jonas, since the sudden breakdown of their marriage and over his alleged refusal to let their young daughters return with her to the UK, where she said they had agreed the girls would be raised. The British actor invokes 1980
San Jose Mercury NewsJun 29 2023
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Supreme Court Expands Legal Protections for Christian Employees
WASHINGTON, DC – Federal law grants Christian employees greater workplace protections than employers for decades thought they were required to grant Christians, and members of other faiths as well, following a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday. Lawyers from First Liberty Institute filed suit when a Christian postal worker was fired from the Postal Service, asking Supreme
Breitbart NewsSep 19 2023
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California launches lawsuit against Big Oil, but only wants cash ‘damages’ not an end to production
Why is it always California? According to an AP report out three days ago: The state of California filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage, officials said Saturday. The civil lawsuit filed in
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