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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs gets 4 years in prison for case involving sex workers
Criminal Law 10/09/2025Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced Friday to four years and two months in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters, capping a sordid federal case that featured harrowing testimony and ended in a forceful recko...
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Mexico soccer star Omar Bravo arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse
Criminal Law 10/06/2025Mexican authorities said they arrested former soccer player Omar Bravo, 45, on suspicion of child sexual abuse. The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that investigations indicate Bravo allegedly abused a teenage girl on seve...
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Routh is found guilty of trying to assassinate Trump at Florida golf course
Criminal Law 09/23/2025After a two-week trial, a jury took just two hours Tuesday to convict Ryan Routh of trying to assassinate Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last year, a plot that was undone when a Secret Service agent spotted Routh and fired a shot that sent him...
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Ohtani’s lawyers say he was victim of likeness misuse in real estate deal
Criminal Law 09/16/2025Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and his agent, Nez Balelo, moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed last month accusing them of causing a Hawaii real estate investor and broker to be fired from a $240 million luxury housing development on the Big Isla...
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Man charged with killing Minnesota lawmaker plans to plead not guilty
Criminal Law 07/15/2025A Minnesota man plans to plead not guilty to charges he killed the top Democratic leader in the state House and her husband after wounding another lawmaker and his wife, his attorney said.Vance Boelter, 57, is due in federal court for his arraignment...
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2 men cleared in 1994 killing that sent them to prison for decades
Criminal Law 07/10/2025Two men who went to prison as teenagers for a 1994 killing were exonerated Thursday, after prosecutors said new DNA testing and a fresh look at other evidence made it impossible to stand by the convictions.Brian Boles and Charles Collins served decad...
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Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s term: Largely good news for Trump
Criminal Law 06/27/2025The Supreme Court has been very good to President Donald Trump lately. Even before he won a new term in the White House, the court eliminated any doubt about whether Trump could appear on presidential ballots, then effectively spared him from having ...
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Jury begins deliberating in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree
Criminal Law 05/06/2025Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the case of two men charged with cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree that once stood along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have pleaded not guilty ...
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Elon Musk dodges DOGE scrutiny while expanding his power in Washington
Criminal Law 02/10/2025Elon Musk made a clear promise after Donald Trump decided to put him in charge of making the government more efficient.“It’s not going to be some sort of backroom secret thing,” Musk said last year. “It will be as transparent ...
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Man accused of stalking Caitlin Clark proclaims himself ‘guilty as charged’
Criminal Law 01/21/2025One day after Michael Thomas Lewis was charged with felony stalking of Indiana Fever star and WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark, the 55-year-old Texas man shouted “guilty as charged” as soon as he sat down in a courtroom Tuesday.Lewis...
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
Criminal Law 01/09/2025President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone ...
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Appeals court overturns ex-49er Dana Stubblefield’s rape conviction
Criminal Law 12/26/2024A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during the Black man’s trial.The retired football player was sent...