1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (663+ words) The state’s Department of Law announced the decision Friday, after a three-judge Court of Appeals panel ruled a week earlier that state law requires proof that defendants who erroneously filled out voter registration forms had a “consciousness of wrongdoing” and…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (311+ words) Rep. Martin Romualdez, a cousin and former ally of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and three others are facing plunder charges at the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan. Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla, whose office filed the charges, told a news conference that the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (361+ words) U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President Donald Trump. ruled that the journalists are unlikely to successfully prove that the Pentagon violated their First Amendment free speech rights. He said Stars and Stripes' editorial…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (830+ words) Kaitlyn M. Sims, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies (THE CONVERSATION) With the start of the new fall semester, students are gearing up for football season, homecoming celebrations and a new round of academic coursework. Yet the first weeks of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (251+ words) A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of Bergdahl's claims in district court. The panel said District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington lacked the jurisdiction to vacate Bergdahl’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) Stamford Advocate Police in Arizona say a shooting at a Tucson gay bar that left three people dead, including the shooter, is being investigated as a possible hate crime Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were shot in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (552+ words) Federal judges have varied their commutes, hired private security and fortified their homes, including with panic buttons, amid a barrage of threats and harassment in recent months that has left many of them anxious about their safety, according to two…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (349+ words) Stamford Advocate George Santos for his bets on whether he'd attend the State of the Union address and has fined and temporarily banned North Carolina congressional candidate Laurie Buckhout for bets she now calls a “dumb mistake.” The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (343+ words) The 12 regular jurors and six alternates began discussing the case Thursday in Plymouth County Superior Court after hearing testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses, including her then-husband, and 10 defense witnesses over five weeks. While Clancy doesn’t deny strangling her children,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (286+ words) Clancy doesn't deny strangling her children, but her lawyer said she did it because she had lost her grip on reality due to postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness that can follow childbirth. In the months before the killings, Clancy…...