321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
NEW YORK — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted President Donald Trump a temporary stay Tuesday on the $83.3 million defamation judgment awarded to E. Jean Carroll, pausing any payment requirement until the Supreme Court decides whether to take up his appeal or reject...
By Tommy Flynn
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state’s 2025 Republican-drawn congressional map Tuesday, clearing it for use in the November 2026 elections. In two separate opinions, the court affirmed lower-court rulings that the “Missouri First Map”...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Democrats are rejecting the state Supreme Court’s May 8 ruling that voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting and are advancing multiple strategies to overturn or sidestep it, including an emergency appeal to the...
By Tommy Flynn
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated lower-court orders blocking Alabama’s 2023 congressional redistricting map, clearing the way for the state to use the Republican-led legislature’s plan for the 2026 midterm elections. In an unsigned order, the justices...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asking the justices to overturn the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling that voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment authorizing new congressional maps. The appeal, led by...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, entered a not guilty plea Monday morning in federal court in the District of Columbia. Allen faces charges of attempted assassination of the president,...
By Tommy Flynn
ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Rufus French, a former NFL tight end who played for the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers, was sentenced Friday to 196 months in federal prison for his role in a yearslong scheme that defrauded Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the...
By Tommy Flynn
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Secretary of State Wes Allen filed emergency applications with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday asking the justices to lift a federal injunction and permit the state to use a new congressional map for the 2026...
By Tommy Flynn
PROVO, Utah — Fourth District Court Judge Tony Graf ruled Friday that television cameras and still photography will remain allowed in the courtroom for the aggravated murder case against Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk....
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has scheduled former FBI Director James Comey’s criminal trial for July 15, 2026, on two felony counts accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan in the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment authorizing mid-decade redistricting of the state’s congressional districts, ruling 4-3 on Friday that the Democratic-led General Assembly violated procedural requirements under the...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s 10% global tariffs on most imports are unlawful, dealing another significant legal setback to the administration’s trade agenda. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel found that...