(Associated Press) A California court ordered President Donald Trump this week to pay $44,100 in attorney fees to porn actress Stormy Daniels to pay for her legal battle over her effort to cancel a hush money deal brokered to keep her quiet about their sexual relationship a decade ago.
The order...
A New Jersey judge ruled Wednesday that the results of a May special election race must be scrapped after mail-in voting led to rampant voter fraud.
The local election fraud comes as President Donald Trump predicts massive voter fraud and confusion if the Democrats are able to send 51 million...
(Headline USA) The future of the Supreme Court is on the line, though it would be hard to tell from the Democratic National Convention that just concluded.
There was a fleeting glimpse of a younger Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a brief reference to the court by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court’s...
(Associated Press) A group of conservatives doesn't have the legal standing to sue San Antonio over its rejection of a Chick-fil-A restaurant at the city's airport, a Texas appeals court ruled.
The San Antonio City Council approved a contract last year with an Atlanta-based company to bring new vendors to San...
(Associated Press) President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow him to block critics from his personal Twitter account.
The administration said in a high-court filing Thursday that Trump's @realdonaldtrump account with more than 85 million followers is his personal property and blocking people from it is akin to...
(Associated Press) A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for Manhattan's top prosecutor to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns, rejecting a last-ditch attempt by his lawyers to block a subpoena issued to his accounting firm.
Trump's lawyers immediately appealed U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero's decision to the Second Circuit...
(Associated Press) Planned Parenthood has decided to drop its federal lawsuit challenging an Indiana law that will require women to undergo an ultrasound at least 18 hours before having an abortion.
The law was passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature in 2016 but had been blocked since a federal judge’s ruling in...
A federal district court halted the enforcement of a Louisville city ordinance that would have forced a wedding photographer to promote same-sex weddings on her platforms.
Chelsey Nelson sued Louisville city officials in November, arguing that the city’s ordinance violated the First Amendment. The ordinance would have forced her to...
(Headline USA) A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from enforcing a new regulation that would roll back health care protections such as taxpayer-subsidized gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies for transgender people.
Finalized days after the Supreme Court jn a highly controversial ruling barred sex discrimination against...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary injunction to stop Idaho from enacting a law banning transgenders born male from participating in women’s sports while a legal challenge moves forward.
The ruling means transgender athletes wanting to participate in sports that match their "gender identity" can do so this...
(Headline USA) A special prosecutor in Chicago accused Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office on Monday of repeatedly abusing their discretion and making false public statements in the case against actor Jussie Smollett last year, but he concluded they did nothing criminal.
Foxx, the first black woman...