The struggle over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has primarily moved to the courts. Since 2021, Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm…
Read more Red States Are Rolling Back the Rights RevolutionFormer President Donald Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a scheme that directed hush money payments to two women before…
Read more Read the indictment against Donald Trump, details of payments to porn star, Playboy modelDETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed the January trial for the parents of the teenager who killed four students at his high school, a victory…
Read more Oxford school shooting trial delayed by appeal by parentsFOR MOVEMENT TUESDAY AT 1 AM ET. EDITED BY CBLAKE. A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the…
Read more Missouri prepares to execute man for killing officer in 2005Today in History Today is Thursday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2022. There are 37 days left in the year. Today is Thanksgiving. Today’s Highlight in History:…
Read more Today in History: November 24, Ruby shoots OswaldHONOLULU — A jury on Thursday found two Native Hawaiian men guilty of a hate crime for the 2014 beating of a white man who was fixing up…
Read more 2 Hawaiian men guilty of hate crime in white man’s beatingOMAHA, Neb. — A man sentenced to death for the killing and dismemberment of a Lincoln woman he met through the dating app Tinder lost his initial appeal…
Read more Death sentence upheld in Nebraska killing, dismembermentNEW YORK — A criminal trial involving tax fraud charges against Donald Trump’s company won’t resume until late next week at the earliest as a key witness continues…
Read more Trump Org. trial off until Thursday after witness gets COVIDDELPHI, Ind. — A northern Indiana judge has recused himself from the case of two slain teenage girls, an Indiana Supreme Court spokeswoman said Thursday. The Indiana Supreme…
Read more Judge recuses himself from case of slain Indiana girlsDES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa judge should allow a law passed in 2018 that bans most abortions to take effect, three years after the measure was ruled…
Read more Iowa governor’s lawyer pushes for 6-week abortion banThis Oct. 21, 2022, photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabiliatation shows Scott Peterson. Peterson has been moved off death row more than two years…
Read more Scott Peterson finally moved off California’s death rowCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Wednesday for an inmate who argued her attorneys didn’t properly raise in her defense trauma she experienced,…
Read more Death sentence upheld for killer with gender dysphoria claimFILE – This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Corrections shows Benjamin Robert Cole Sr. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a last-minute appeal filed…
Read more US Supreme Court denies Oklahoma death row inmate’s appealJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a February execution date for a suburban St. Louis man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend…
Read more February execution date set for Missouri man who killed fourFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It wasn’t long ago that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz would have been looking at a near-certain death sentence for murdering 17 people in…
Read more Parkland shooter’s life sentence could bring changes to lawPITTSBURGH — Max Baer, the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has died only months before he was set to retire, the court confirmed Saturday. He was…
Read more Max Baer, Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s chief justice, dies
