Australia set to rule on whether cardinal stands trial

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court on Tuesday to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago. Magistrate Belinda Wallington will rule in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on... Read More

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Catholic Church, George Pell

April 30, 2018

FIFA bans Brazilian official Del Nero for life for bribery

GENEVA (AP) — Brazilian soccer official Marco Polo del Nero was banned for life for bribery and corruption by the FIFA ethics committee on Friday. FIFA said Del Nero, the former Brazilian Football Confederation president and one-time FIFA executive committee member, was also fined 1 million Swiss francs ($1 million). Del Nero was indicted by... Read More

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Marco Polo del Nero

April 30, 2018

Openings to begin in ex-Assembly speaker’s corruption trial

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s former assembly speaker returns to federal court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers. This will be the second criminal trial for Sheldon Silver, 74, a Democrat who was once... Read More

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Sheldon Silver

April 30, 2018

Philadelphia crime boss pleads guilty, avoids retrial

Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, whose lawyer has called him a degenerate gambler, told reporters outside federal court in Manhattan he was picking the Philadelphia 76ers to win the championship. He also chimed in on Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill’s recent release from prison, saying, “I’m glad he’s at home with his family where he belongs.” The... Read More

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Joseph Merlino

April 30, 2018

Judge agrees to delay Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against Trump

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Friday delayed a civil lawsuit by porn actress Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, citing a criminal investigation the attorney is facing. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero agreed to put the case on hold for three months and set a hearing... Read More

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Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels

April 30, 2018

Health care is new front for transgender rights under Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military service. Bathroom use. Job bias. And now, health care. The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars discrimination in health care based on “gender identity.” Critics say it’s another attempt to undercut acceptance for transgender people. The Health and Human Services Department rule dates to... Read More

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Donald Trump

April 30, 2018

Cosby juror: Comedian’s own words led to his conviction

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A juror on the Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial case says the comedian’s own words sealed his fate. Harrison Snyder, in an interview aired Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said that it “wasn’t an open and shut case.” But the 22-year-old says Cosby’s deposition — in which he admitted giving women... Read More

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Bill Cosby

April 27, 2018

US judge allows suit over Berkeley speakers to move forward

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A free speech lawsuit against officials at the University of California, Berkeley can move forward, although there is no evidence the school discriminated against speakers with conservative views, a U.S. judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney said the Berkeley College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation could challenge what they said... Read More

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Milo Yiannopoulos

April 27, 2018

Man found mentally fit for trial for fleeing Hawaii hospital

HONOLULU (AP) — A man who fled from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital— where he was committed after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of a woman’s 1979 killing — is mentally fit to stand trial for an escape charge, a panel of three examiners determined. Randall Saito’s defense attorney and a state prosecutor... Read More

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Randall Saito

April 27, 2018

Comparing Cosby’s 2 trials: More accusers and a conviction

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The retrial that led to Bill Cosby’s conviction Thursday on charges he drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia mansion played out far differently than one that ended in a hung jury last year. This time, prosecutors had the advantage of calling five additional accusers to help make the... Read More

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Bill Cosby

April 27, 2018

Man convicted of 1980 killing set to be sentenced in Maine

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A man convicted in a nearly 40-year-old slaying that many thought would never be solved is set to be sentenced. A judge found 57-year-old Philip Scott Fournier guilty in February of killing 16-year-old Joyce McLain. McLain disappeared while she was out jogging in 1980, and her body was found two days... Read More

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Philip Scott Fournier

April 27, 2018

Man convicted of mailing fatal cyanide set to be sentenced

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine man convicted of sending cyanide to a suicidal man in England is due to be sentenced. Sidney Kilmartin, of Windham, was found guilty in 2016 of mailing injurious articles resulting in death and witness tampering. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Friday afternoon at U.S. District Court in Portland.... Read More

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Sidney Kilmartin

April 27, 2018

Florida school shooting suspect Cruz due back in court

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is due back in court for a hearing designed to get the death penalty case moving forward. The hearing Friday afternoon is expected to deal with several procedural issues, possibly including the setting of an initial trial date. Cruz’s public defender also is likely... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

April 27, 2018

Parents sue North Korea over death of detainee Otto Warmbier

WASHINGTON (AP) — The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea on Thursday, saying its government tortured and killed their son. Fred and Cindy Warmbier filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking compensation for the death of the 22-year-old, whose plight had... Read More

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Otto Warmbier

Australia set to rule on whether cardinal stands trial

FIFA bans Brazilian official Del Nero for life for bribery

Openings to begin in ex-Assembly speaker’s corruption trial

Philadelphia crime boss pleads guilty, avoids retrial

Judge agrees to delay Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against Trump

Health care is new front for transgender rights under Trump

Cosby juror: Comedian’s own words led to his conviction

US judge allows suit over Berkeley speakers to move forward

Man found mentally fit for trial for fleeing Hawaii hospital

Comparing Cosby’s 2 trials: More accusers and a conviction

Man convicted of 1980 killing set to be sentenced in Maine

Man convicted of mailing fatal cyanide set to be sentenced

Florida school shooting suspect Cruz due back in court

Parents sue North Korea over death of detainee Otto Warmbier

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