Republicans continue to push to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court despite Democrat objections.
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Maxwell says ‘intimate, sensitive, and personal’ information from testimony would imperil a fair trial.
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Alvaro Uribe was placed under house arrest in August as part of an investigation into alleged witness...
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The president had argued that the subpoena for his tax returns was overly broad and politically...
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Peter Dameris was sentenced to one year of home confinement and ordered to pay a $95,000 fine.
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Amy Coney Barrett will face confirmation hearings from October 12 to decide her appointment to the top US court.
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Reporter Dimitris Psarras has spent decades investigating one of Greece’s most violent far-right groups, Golden Dawn.
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The Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York, is facing more than 200 sexual abuse lawsuits.
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Protests sweep US cities amid anger over a grand jury’s failure to charge police officers for Black woman’s death.
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Bader Ginsburg’s voice for the ‘excluded and oppressed’ in gender and immigration cases will be missed.
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The normally nine-justice court now faces the possibility of 4-4 splits and potential for compromise among judges.
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Donald Trump said he would choose a woman to fill the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Justice Ginsburg lived a storied life, filled with judicial accomplishments and personal friends on the Supreme Court.
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Politicians and celebrities pay tribute to the late US Supreme Court justice, who died from cancer aged 87.