Prosecutors to respond in Boston Marathon bomber’s appeal

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors are expected to file their response in Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) death penalty appeal. The government’s response is due Thursday in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will decide whether to uphold Tsarnaev’s 2015 conviction and death sentence. Tsarnaev’s lawyers said in a brief filed in... Read More

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

June 27, 2019

Doctors, lawyers portray dire conditions for child migrants

CLINT, Texas (AP) — Immigrant advocates are asking a federal judge to immediately require inspections and let doctors into border detention facilities where they say sleep-deprived, flu-stricken children are languishing in filthy conditions. Doctors and lawyers who visited the facilities in recent weeks outlined several damning examples in a court filing late Wednesday that puts... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

June 26, 2019

FedEx sues US government over export rules in Huawei case

DALLAS (AP) — A lawsuit filed by FedEx against the U.S. government over export rules follows a dispute over diverted shipments that were intended for Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications-equipment giant. The lawsuit challenges changes to export rules designed to keep technology out of the hands of entities or people that the U.S. government considers... Read More

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FedEx

June 26, 2019

Cardi B pleads not guilty to new charges in strip club brawl

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B was arraigned Tuesday on new felony charges in connection with a fight last year at a New York City strip club. “Not guilty, sir, honor,” said the rapper dressed in a dark blue and light pink pantsuit with her hair tinted blue as she pleaded in state... Read More

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Cardi B

June 26, 2019

Man charged with impersonating federal agent to be released

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the spokesman for a group of armed civilians that patrols the U.S.-Mexico border will be released to a halfway house in New Mexico while he faces charges that he impersonated a federal agent there. U.S. Magistrate Judge Shon Erwin ordered James Christopher Benvie, 44, of... Read More

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James Christopher Benvie

June 26, 2019

Feds: Rep. Duncan Hunter paid for affairs with campaign cash

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California illegally used campaign money to finance romantic flings with lobbyists and congressional aides, spending thousands of dollars on meals, cocktails and vacations, federal prosecutors say. A government court filing late Monday detailed allegations about the married Republican congressman’s affairs with five women following an indictment... Read More

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Duncan Hunter

June 26, 2019

Texas man who threatened Trump from prison gets 37 months

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Texas man who threatened President Donald Trump from a Louisiana prison has been sentenced to just over three years in federal prison. Buddy Keith Myers, 24, of Simms, Texas, was sentenced Monday for threatening the president, prosecutors said Tuesday. He’d faced up to five years in prison and a... Read More

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Buddy Keith Myers

June 26, 2019

Prosecutor says Hawaii police chief, wife abused positions

HONOLULU (AP) — The former police chief of Honolulu and his wife, a former deputy prosecutor, abused their positions in an attempt to silence a relative who could have exposed the financial fraud that funded their lavish lifestyle, a U.S. prosecutor said Tuesday. The contention came during closing arguments at the conspiracy trial of Louis... Read More

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Katherine Kealoha, Louis Kealoha

June 26, 2019

Motor vehicle head resigns over fatal crash that killed 7

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned after her agency failed to terminate the commercial driving license of a man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural New Hampshire road left seven bikers dead. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of... Read More

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Volodymyr Zhukovskyy

June 26, 2019

American who helped Islamic State asks for leniency

NEW YORK (AP) — An American woman who admitted to participating in the online recruitment of Islamic State fighters is seeking leniency in her terrorism case over the objections of prosecutors who say she double-crossed them. Defense attorneys for Sinmyah Amera Caesar, who once used the nom de guerre “Umm Nutella,” argued at a sentencing... Read More

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Sinmyah Amera Caesar

June 26, 2019

Defense to present testimony in Navy SEAL murder case

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Defense lawyers planned to go on the offensive Wednesday in the murder trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing a wounded young Islamic State prisoner in Iraq and shooting at civilians. The prosecution rested its case Tuesday in the San Diego court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, a... Read More

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Edward Gallagher

June 26, 2019

Gooding due in court as lawyer seeks groping case dismissal

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba Gooding Jr. is due in court as his lawyer seeks the dismissal of charges that the actor grabbed a woman’s breast without consent at a New York City bar. A hearing for Gooding is scheduled for Wednesday morning in Manhattan. It’s his first court appearance since his June 13 arrest... Read More

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Cuba Gooding Jr.

June 25, 2019

Ex-Chicago Council member gets year in prison for corruption

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago City Council member has been sentenced to a year and one day prison after pleading guilty to corruption charges. U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso sentenced 66-year-old Alderman Willie Cochran on Monday, saying he is part of “long and pathetic tradition” of political corruption. An investigation revealed Cochran took thousands... Read More

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Willie Cochran

June 25, 2019

California police shooting suspect in court wearing bandage

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with killing a rookie California police officer made his first brief court appearance Monday wearing a four-inch gauze pad covering what officials said was a self-inflicted head injury. Adel Sambrano Ramos was appointed a public defender during a five-minute court hearing, and spoke only to acknowledge his name.... Read More

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Adel Sambrano Ramos

Prosecutors to respond in Boston Marathon bomber’s appeal

Doctors, lawyers portray dire conditions for child migrants

FedEx sues US government over export rules in Huawei case

Cardi B pleads not guilty to new charges in strip club brawl

Man charged with impersonating federal agent to be released

Feds: Rep. Duncan Hunter paid for affairs with campaign cash

Texas man who threatened Trump from prison gets 37 months

Prosecutor says Hawaii police chief, wife abused positions

Motor vehicle head resigns over fatal crash that killed 7

American who helped Islamic State asks for leniency

Defense to present testimony in Navy SEAL murder case

Gooding due in court as lawyer seeks groping case dismissal

Ex-Chicago Council member gets year in prison for corruption

California police shooting suspect in court wearing bandage

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