Cases

The major cases the Supreme Court will decide in the coming weeks

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Washington — The final weeks of the Supreme Court’s term are fast approaching, and the justices are poised to hand down decisions in some of its most significant cases before they go their separate ways for the summer. The high court has already struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs and weakened the Voting Rights Act. … Read more

Supreme Court tells lower courts to take new look at 2 major voting rights cases

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday told lower courts to take another look at a pair of cases involving whether private individuals and groups can sue to enforce a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits discriminatory voting practices. In brief orders, the high court set aside lower court decisions and sent the … Read more

Cops used chewing gum to make murder cases stick against ‘sexual sadist’

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Convicted double murderer and diagnosed sexual sadist Mitchell Gaff will likely be chewing on this for the rest of his life — in prison. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Gaff was tied to a cold case murder of a women in Washington state by a … Read more

No known cases of hantavirus in U.S. as officials monitor 41 with possible exposure

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There are no known cases of hantavirus in the United States as of Friday morning, garnering a sense of hope stateside amid a global outbreak that has killed three people, sickened 11 and forced dozens into quarantine. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The Centers for … Read more

A timeline of events in the cases against Alex Murdaugh

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On Wednesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. Prosecutors said they plan to retry the once-prominent lawyer who was known for his family lineage and million-dollar judgements in rural South Carolina. He worked for his … Read more

Thousands of asylum-seekers abandon their cases as ICE seeks to deport them to nations they aren’t from

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Willian Yacelga Benalcazar’s asylum case followed what had become a similar pattern in immigration courts across the country: After telling a judge he feared returning to his home country, the judge ordered his deportation to another one.  Yacelga, who said he fled threats from criminal gangs in Ecuador, was facing removal to Honduras. By March, … Read more

Illegal trucker cases fuel GOP push to crack down on CDL mills as Dems largely silent

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans in Pennsylvania are pressuring Democrats to act on a legislative crackdown targeting illegal immigrant truckers on America’s highways. Several foreign nationals involved in dangerous incidents around the country were found to be holding commercial driver’s licenses from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, leading to tensions between … Read more