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Congolese military court hands down death sentence to leader of rebel coalition
Legal Business 08/06/2024A military court in Congo on Thursday sentenced 25 people, including the leader of a rebel coalition, to death after a high-profile televised trial that started late last month.Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo, or AFC, was found ...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
Legal Business 08/05/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Sacramento mass shooting suspect dies in jail cell, police and attorney say
Legal Business 06/09/2024A suspect who was being held in a California jail on charges connected to a 2022 mass shooting in the state capital died in his cell Saturday, according to police and his attorney. The 29-year-old male inmate died while in custody at the Sacramento C...
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Trial turns testy as Trump lawyers try to pique fixer-turned-witness
Legal Business 05/27/2024After approximately five weeks, 19 witnesses, reams of documents and a dash of salacious testimony, the prosecution against Donald Trump rested its case Monday, handing over to the defense before closing arguments expected next week.Trump’s tea...
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Trump campaign expects to raise $43 million at Florida fundraiser
Legal Business 04/06/2024Donald Trump’s campaign is expecting to raise more than $40 million on Saturday when major donors gather for his biggest fundraiser yet.The event at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson is expected to bring in $43 ...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
Legal Business 04/04/2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriag...
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Executive is convicted of insider trading related to medical device firm acquisition
Legal Business 02/19/2024An executive at a medical device company has been convicted in Minnesota of insider trading for a scheme involving negotiations for the acquisition of the firm that was valued at $1.6 billion, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Doron Tavlin was a vice ...
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Britain cracks down on protests in threat to democratic norms
Legal Business 12/26/2023For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading “Just Stop Oil” off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison senten...
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Reaction to court ruling FIFA, UEFA unlawfully blocked Super League
Legal Business 12/21/2023With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump ‘s Republican rivals are once again rallying to his defense, this time after Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled to remove him from the state’s presidential primary ballot u...
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Nigeria’s Court reinstates terrorism charges against separatist leader
Legal Business 12/15/2023Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country’s southeast region.The Court said Nn...
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Brazil's Senate approves Lula ally as new Supreme Court justice
Legal Business 12/14/2023Brazil’s Senate approved the appointment of Justice Minister Flávio Dino on Wednesday to take a seat on the country’s Supreme Court.Dino, a former leftist state governor who cracked down on supporters of former President Jair Bolso...
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Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack
Legal Business 12/10/2023A judge sentenced a Michigan teenager to life in prison Friday for killing four students and terrorizing others at Oxford High School, after listening to hours of gripping anguish from parents and wounded survivors.Judge Kwame Rowe rejected pleas fro...