Tag: Law

Fear of coronavirus chaos drives gun purchases for self-defense

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2020 4:00 am

DOJ inspector general vows ‘aggressive, independent oversight’ will persist after Trump fires intelligence watchdog

Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin · April 4, 2020 7:19 pm

Coronavirus could make 2020 the lawsuit and legal threat election

Emily Brooks · April 4, 2020 4:01 am

California police arrest paddleboarder for alleged violation of stay-at-home order

Andrew Mark Miller · April 3, 2020 4:33 pm

Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell

Trump to pick ex-Kavanaugh clerk deemed ‘not qualified’ by ABA for powerful DC appeals court

Caitlin Yilek · April 3, 2020 3:41 pm

Coronavirus crisis raises specter of civil unrest, experts say

Anna Giaritelli · April 3, 2020 4:00 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, flanked by Attorney General Xavier Becerra, right, answers a question concerning a lawsuit the state will likely file against President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif.

Newsom says coronavirus is an ‘opportunity for reimagining a more progressive era’

Andrew Mark Miller · April 2, 2020 5:14 pm

A woman wearing face mask waits to cross a nearly empty road due to residents taking the advice of staying at home to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, with Moscow City skyscrapers in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Online shopping for food and other supplies has boomed in Moscow after the authorities put most residents on lockdown. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Texas city residents face up to $1K fine for entering buildings that aren’t their home without mask

John Gage · April 2, 2020 4:10 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the International Association of Firefighters at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, amid growing expectations he'll soon announce he's running for president.

Tiger King star Joe Exotic caged in quarantine as coronavirus roars

Spencer Neale · April 2, 2020 3:34 pm

Two private security agents wearing mask and gloves as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus exchange words with a police officer, just before the start of curfew, at the Casco Viejo neighborhood of Panama City, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo announced the change of a partial curfew to a full day curfew in all the country to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

Panama enacts gender-based coronavirus lockdown: Men and women allowed outside on different days

Zach Halaschak · April 1, 2020 9:57 pm

Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, that Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, who was arrested in Mexico in October 2017, was extradited.

Immigration jumps to No. 1 federal crime

Paul Bedard · April 1, 2020 1:01 pm

Police in DC region blare PSAs, shut down basketball games, and arrest violators of lockdown orders

Anna Giaritelli · April 1, 2020 11:00 am