(Headline USA) Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd, now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has declined to hear the case, his attorney said Wednesday.
Chauvin faces long odds at the U.S....
(Headline USA) A federal judge said Wednesday that his order blocking a Florida law targeting drag shows doesn't just apply to the restaurant that brought the lawsuit challenging it but to other venues in the state, reiterating that the legislation championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely unconstitutional.
A state...
(Headline USA) An 18-year-old northeastern Nebraska woman was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for burning and burying a fetus she aborted with her mother's help in a case watched by activists as a slew of states move to end barbaric abortion practices.
Celeste...
(Headline USA) Senate Democrats, fresh off recent partywide discussions of court-packing and other desperate moves to swing the judiciary in their favor, launched an opening salvo in their effort to either control or discredit the collateral branch of government, fueling alarming questions about the separation of powers and the...
(Headline USA) New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during race riots that swept through the city in the summer of 2020.
If approved by a judge, the settlement,...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden would seem an unnatural fit for the activists at Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of progressives that was created to harness online rage over George W. Bush's administration. More recently, it has championed the message of economic populism from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two of Biden's rivals...
(Headline USA) Lawyers for the man charged in last year’s attack against former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband want his federal trial to be moved out of San Francisco, saying intense publicity---not to mention the Democrat leader's stranglehold on the local political machine---means he won't get a fair trial.
Already, the...
(Headline USA) A federal judge signaled Tuesday that December may be too soon to begin former President Donald Trump’s politically motivated trial concerning the mishandling of classified documents.
But Judge Aileen Cannon did not say whether she would agree to Trump’s request to put the trial off until after the 2024...
(Headline USA) The House on Tuesday passed a Republican-led resolution reaffirming its support for Israel with strong bipartisan approval—an implicit rebuke of a leading Democrat who, over the weekend, unleashed an anti-Semitic attack on the Jewish state but later apologized.
The resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, passed with over 400...
(Cameron Arcand, The Center Square) Democrat Congressman Ruben Gallego, Republican Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, and Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema released their quarter-two fundraising numbers in the Arizona Senate race this week, which paints a clearer picture of the race in its early days.
Gallego raised $3.1 million in the...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Federal prosecutors said former President Donald Trump's open-ended request to defer a trial date until after the 2024 election was unjustified in a case that alleges he illegally kept classified documents.
Trump, the current GOP presidential frontrunner, filed a motion last week to postpone any...
(J.J. Brannock, The Center Square) Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a news conference last week on what they said was Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s failure to lawfully reappoint 14 National Institutes of Health officials, including former COVID czar Anthony Fauci.
Following a bipartisan...