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Crime

A 15-Year-Old Is Arrested in the Florida A&M Homecoming Shooting That Injured 12, and Charged as an Adult

Tallahassee police arrested a 15-year-old on Sunday over the Saturday-night shooting behind Florida A&M’s Bragg Memorial Stadium that injured 12 people, and the second charge against…

By Mark Masterson · 10h ago · 2 min read

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Law & Justice

Virginia Senate Leader Louise Lucas Indicted in a 45-Page Marijuana Trafficking and Money Laundering Case

Federal prosecutors indicted Virginia Senate President pro tempore L. Louise Lucas on Thursday, accusing…

By Mark Masterson · 4d ago

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Law & Justice

Supreme Court Refuses Trump’s Request to End Gender-Affirming Care in Federal Prisons

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to let the Trump administration begin taking hormone…

By Mark Masterson · 5d ago

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Government

Trump Promises Fraud Tipsters 1% With ‘No Limit’, Not the $30,000 Cap His Own Justice Department Published the Same Day

“I will be the arbitrator of all of these decisions.” That was the president…

By Mark Masterson · 5d ago

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Government

A Federal Judge Found a Strong Showing of Bad Faith in Trump’s East Potomac Golf Course Tree Cutting

“There is no universe in which all of this just coincidentally happened at the…

By Mark Masterson · 6d ago

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Elections

28 Noncitizens Charged With Voting in California After DHS Said 190,000 Were on the Rolls

“I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians based solely upon an unsupported and likely…

By Mark Masterson · 6d ago

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Government

After 158 Years, the Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Making Whiskey at Home Is a Federal Crime

Scott McNutt owns a still. He has used it to make fuel alcohol, which…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 19

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Law & Justice

Trump Says Leakers “Should Be Shot.” The Law He Would Charge Them Under Caps the Sentence at 10 Years.

Donald Trump stood in front of a rally crowd in Bullhead City, Arizona, on…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 16

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Government

Trump’s Justice Department Tells an Appeals Court the Presidential Records Act Is Unconstitutional, a Law Its Own Lawyers Backed in 1978

“At least insofar as declaring the President’s official papers to be public property ……

By Mark Masterson · Oct 16

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Breaking News

Four People Were Killed at a Bend, Oregon, Elementary School, and the Shooter Is Dead

Four people were killed Thursday afternoon when a gunman opened fire inside Silver Rail…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 15

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Law & Justice

Six Days After Saying He “Absolutely” Approved It, Trump Cancels the Livestream of the Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution

Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday that Nidal Hasan “will die, as…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 15

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Elections

White-Powder Letters Hit Election and Senate Offices in a Nationwide Wave, Not One-Off Scares

The FBI is investigating powder letters sent to election offices in at least eight…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 15

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Celebrities

A Judge Will Let Halle Berry’s 13-Year-Old Son Testify at Friday’s Restraining Order Hearing

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge will let Maceo, the 13-year-old son of Halle…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 15

Archive

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Immigration

After Watching the Video, Houston’s DA Says an ICE Agent Ran Over a Man on Purpose

Oct 15

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Law & Justice

How Did a Former CVS Employee’s 2019 Lawsuit Become a $315 Million Opioid Settlement?

Oct 14

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Elections

Trump Pardoned Two Alaska Diesel Mechanics Onstage, Men He Said Faced ’10 Years’ for Fixing an Engine

Oct 14

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Law & Justice

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis Gets 40 Years to Life for Tupac Shakur’s Murder, and He Would Be 101 Before He Could Be Paroled

Oct 13

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Government

Nearly 400 Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads Aired After a Judge’s Ban, the Same Weekend 430 Trees Were Cut at a Golf Course He Wants Rebuilt

Oct 13

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Law & Justice

The Justice Department Sent Antitrust Demands to Five TV Networks for Pausing Their Coverage of Trump

Oct 12

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Law & Justice

Homeland Security Agents Searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home 22 Days Before the Midterms, a Warrant the DOJ Has Not Explained

Oct 12

A gray SUV with bullet holes in its windshield behind yellow police tape on a brick-lined Marble Hill street, as neighbors and an NYPD officer look on

Immigration

An ICE Officer Fired Seven Shots Into a Car in Manhattan with a 5-Year-Old Inside, and DHS Blames the Boy’s Father

Oct 9

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Law & Justice

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, a Founding Judge of the Court Trump Sanctioned

Oct 9

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Breaking News

Nicolás Maduro Charged with Conspiracy to Torture, a New Count Covering Americans Held in Venezuelan Prisons

Oct 8

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Law & Justice

McDonald’s Is Being Sued Over Its AI Pricing Tool. The Company Says Franchisees, Not Algorithms, Set Your Price.

Oct 8

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Breaking News

Christa Pike Is Awake After Tennessee’s Failed Execution, Not Brain Dead as Her Lawyers Feared

Oct 7

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Crime

California Couple With 21 Surrogate-Born Children Charged With Child Abuse, the Case Behind Congress’s Surrogacy Bill

Oct 7

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Law & Justice

Trump Approved a Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan, Though the Last Military Death Warrant Was Never Carried Out

Oct 7

Law & Justice

A 15-Year-Old Is Arrested in the Florida A&M Homecoming Shooting That Injured 12, and Charged as an Adult

Two Ex-FBI Officials Charged With Lying to Congress About the Hunter Biden Laptop

A New Mexico Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Facebook Users

Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Stop Officials From Weighing Student IDs, 12 Days Before Election Day

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Virginia Senate Leader Louise Lucas Indicted in a 45-Page Marijuana Trafficking and Money Laundering Case

Supreme Court Refuses Trump’s Request to End Gender-Affirming Care in Federal Prisons

Trump Promises Fraud Tipsters 1% With ‘No Limit’, Not the $30,000 Cap His Own Justice Department Published the Same Day

A Federal Judge Found a Strong Showing of Bad Faith in Trump’s East Potomac Golf Course Tree Cutting

28 Noncitizens Charged With Voting in California After DHS Said 190,000 Were on the Rolls

After 158 Years, the Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Making Whiskey at Home Is a Federal Crime

Trump Says Leakers “Should Be Shot.” The Law He Would Charge Them Under Caps the Sentence at 10 Years.

Trump’s Justice Department Tells an Appeals Court the Presidential Records Act Is Unconstitutional, a Law Its Own Lawyers Backed in 1978

Four People Were Killed at a Bend, Oregon, Elementary School, and the Shooter Is Dead

Six Days After Saying He “Absolutely” Approved It, Trump Cancels the Livestream of the Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution

White-Powder Letters Hit Election and Senate Offices in a Nationwide Wave, Not One-Off Scares

A Judge Will Let Halle Berry’s 13-Year-Old Son Testify at Friday’s Restraining Order Hearing

Archive

After Watching the Video, Houston’s DA Says an ICE Agent Ran Over a Man on Purpose

How Did a Former CVS Employee’s 2019 Lawsuit Become a $315 Million Opioid Settlement?

Trump Pardoned Two Alaska Diesel Mechanics Onstage, Men He Said Faced ’10 Years’ for Fixing an Engine

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis Gets 40 Years to Life for Tupac Shakur’s Murder, and He Would Be 101 Before He Could Be Paroled

Nearly 400 Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads Aired After a Judge’s Ban, the Same Weekend 430 Trees Were Cut at a Golf Course He Wants Rebuilt

The Justice Department Sent Antitrust Demands to Five TV Networks for Pausing Their Coverage of Trump

Homeland Security Agents Searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home 22 Days Before the Midterms, a Warrant the DOJ Has Not Explained

An ICE Officer Fired Seven Shots Into a Car in Manhattan with a 5-Year-Old Inside, and DHS Blames the Boy’s Father

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, a Founding Judge of the Court Trump Sanctioned

Nicolás Maduro Charged with Conspiracy to Torture, a New Count Covering Americans Held in Venezuelan Prisons

McDonald’s Is Being Sued Over Its AI Pricing Tool. The Company Says Franchisees, Not Algorithms, Set Your Price.

Christa Pike Is Awake After Tennessee’s Failed Execution, Not Brain Dead as Her Lawyers Feared

California Couple With 21 Surrogate-Born Children Charged With Child Abuse, the Case Behind Congress’s Surrogacy Bill

Trump Approved a Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan, Though the Last Military Death Warrant Was Never Carried Out