Recent Updates
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Supreme Court will hear a challenge to ghost-gun regulation
Court Watch 10/08/2024The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday to a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons with an exponentially increased link to crime in recent years.The rule is focused on gun kits that are sold online and ...
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Supreme Court leaves in place two Biden environmental regulations
Court Watch 10/07/2024The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury.The justices did not detail their reasoning in the orders, which came after a f...
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Kentucky sheriff accused of killing judge in courthouse chambers
Court Watch 10/04/2024A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the killing, police said.The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot Dis...
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Court Watch 10/01/2024The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that ...
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Alaska man charged with sending graphic threats to kill Supreme Court justices
Court Watch 09/17/2024An Alaska man accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, authorities said Thursday.Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 465 ...
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Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation
Court Watch 09/07/2024A federal trial is set to begin Monday over claims that supporters of former President Donald Trump threatened and harassed a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas four years ago, disrupting the campaign on the last day of early voting.The civil trial o...
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A man who attacked a Nevada judge in court pleads guilty but mentally ill
Court Watch 09/04/2024A man whose courtroom attack on a judge in Las Vegas was recorded on video has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and other charges. Deobra Delone Redden ended his trial Thursday after Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holth...
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How one Brazilian judge could suspend Elon Musk’s X
Court Watch 09/01/2024The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn’t swiftly comply with one of his orders. Musk has responded with insults, including calling de Moraes a “...
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Court revives Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times
Court Watch 08/30/2024A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was deliberating.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations
Court Watch 08/08/2024Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
Court Watch 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...
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Second phase of NRA civil trial over nonprofit’s spending begins in NYC
Court Watch 07/16/2024The second phase of the civil trial against the National Rifle Association and its top executives began Monday in Manhattan, with New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking an independent monitor to oversee the powerful gun rights group.The Demo...