Tag: Law

Ashlyn Myers of the Coalition for Life St. Louis waves to a Planned Parenthood staff member.

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Activist liberal judge blocks law that would shut down abortion clinic

Nicole Russell · August 8, 2019 6:22 pm

Law enforcement officials block a road at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.

Texas will allow guns in churches, schools after El Paso shooter targeted ‘low security’ Walmart

Tim Pearce · August 8, 2019 6:19 pm

In this photo provided by Erin Toberman, Donald Neely, center, is walked with handcuffs and a rope by two mounted police officers in Galveston, Texas, on Saturday. Galvestonâs police chief has apologized for the way Neely was treated.

Texas police union says media ‘fanning the flames of discord’ over horseback arrest

Tim Pearce · August 8, 2019 4:43 pm

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Trump ‘very strongly’ considering commuting sentence of Rod Blagojevich

Ellie Bufkin · August 8, 2019 1:00 pm

An inmate walks through the yard at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. California is under a federal court order to lower the population of its prisons to 137.5 percent of their designed capacity after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that inmate health care was so bad it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

We need to reform the nation’s justice system

Timothy Head · August 8, 2019 11:48 am

White House counsel Don McGahn on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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House effort to force WH counsel to testify is a systemic abuse

Quin Hillyer · August 8, 2019 2:24 am

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, center, who has declared himself the interim president of Venezuela, greets supporters as he arrives at a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela.

US brings ISIS fighters home for trial, but extremists could benefit from other nations’ inaction

Jerry Dunleavy · August 7, 2019 10:21 pm

AU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer looks on during an operation in Escondido, California.

Hundreds of undocumented workers arrested in massive immigration raids

Zach Halaschak · August 7, 2019 9:32 pm

President Trump gets out of a car.

Minnesota man pleads guilty to trying to access Trump tax returns

Caitlin Yilek · August 7, 2019 6:36 pm

Pictured is John Lambert.

Students for Trump founder convicted of fraud, posing as a lawyer

Ellie Bufkin · August 7, 2019 5:12 pm

A man votes on the only machine working shortly after polls opened in Georgia's Senate runoff elections at a senior center, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Acworth, Ga. Election systems in the U.S. are vulnerable to cyber intrusions similar to the one that hit federal agencies and numerous businesses last year and remain a potential target for foreign hacking, according to a report released Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.

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Why the Electoral College is vital, not outdated

Mathew Spalding · August 7, 2019 5:08 pm

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The Students for Trump founder hatched a $46,000 scam. Are we really surprised?

Madeline Fry Schultz · August 7, 2019 5:02 pm