Tag: Law

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2016 booking photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Patrick Eugene Stein. Stein is one of three members of a militia group are standing trial on charges alleging they were plotting to bomb a mosque and a southwestern Kansas apartment complex IN 2016 where Somali refugees live. Gavin Wright, Stein and Curtis Allen have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Opening statements in the trial began Thursday March 22, 2017 in Wichita.

Lawyers argue that ‘2016 was so lit’ that Trump supporter who plotted to bomb mosque deserves a break

Caitlin Yilek · October 30, 2018 5:03 pm

The headquarters of the chief rabbinate in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 5, 2016. The rabbinate is a state-sanctioned institution that controls all matter of marriage and divorce in Israel. An American citizen has been holed up in a Jerusalem apartment for more than a year, unable to return to his home in the U.S. after an Israeli rabbinical court confiscated his passport and banned him from traveling, claiming heâs the reason his son wonât grant a divorce to his estranged wife for my than a decade.

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Alan Dershowitz: A US citizen is being held hostage by a rabbinical court in Israel

Alan Dershowitz · October 30, 2018 2:06 pm

Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000 weeks before the 2016 presidential election for her silence about an affair she claims she had with President Trump during the early days of his marriage to Melania.

Trump seeks more than $300,000 in legal fees from Stormy Daniels after defamation suit tossed

Diana Stancy Correll · October 30, 2018 12:28 am

President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in D.C.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to postpone trial in census case

Diana Stancy Correll · October 30, 2018 12:04 am

Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Yale vandalized with Christine Blasey Ford quotes

Celine Ryan · October 29, 2018 4:00 am

New regulations czar Neomi Rao was sworn into her White House position by Justice Clarence Thomas, who she clerked for.

Trump interviews Indian-American woman to replace Brett Kavanaugh on DC Circuit

Naomi Lim · October 28, 2018 10:32 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speak to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018.

DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen to migrant caravan: ‘Do not come. You will not be allowed in’

Joe Williams · October 28, 2018 1:45 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during an event.

Sessions: Death penalty possible in hate crime synagogue massacre

Kimberly Leonard · October 27, 2018 9:48 pm

Bishop Larry Silva, of Honolulu, second from left, listens to remarks at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual meeting in Baltimore.

National network of Catholic church leaders told to preserve all communications

Anna Giaritelli · October 27, 2018 12:10 am

The Islamic State militant who planned last year's attack on French satirical news outlet Charlie Hebdo, was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Defense Department officials confirmed on Friday. (AP Photo/ Lionel Cironneau, File)

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European Court of Human Rights: Sorry, Charlie Hebdo, but you had it coming

Becket Adams · October 26, 2018 11:25 pm

Rep. Dan Kildee says attaching Flint funding to a water bill is the "best available path." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

House Democrat: Kavanaugh hearings ‘distracting’ from midterm elections

David M. Drucker · October 26, 2018 7:07 pm

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NBC sat on evidence exonerating Justice Kavanaugh, discrediting Michael Avenatti and his clients’ accusations

Becket Adams · October 26, 2018 7:00 pm