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Mia Alderman testifies about the slaying of her granddaughter, Mary Santina Collins, in 2020 during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight hearing held Monday, Sept. 29, in Charlotte. (Associated Press)
Sep 30, 2025

House members hear pleas for tougher crime policies after Charlotte train stabbing

U.S. House members heard pleas for tougher criminal justice policies after Charlotte train stabbing, sparking partisan debate and prompting North Carolina bail reform legislation.

Michele Fiore, a justice of the peace and former member of the Nevada state Assembly and the Las Vegas City Council, faces federal charges of using funds raised for a statue honoring a slain police officer for political and personal purposes. (Associated Press file)
Sep 10, 2024

Fraud, conspiracy trial looms for Nevada politician

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada Republican who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022 pleaded not guilty Monday to two new charges and headed toward trial in two weeks on […]

A courtroom artist’s drawing depicts Hunter Biden entering a federal courtroom Thursday in Los Angeles as jury selection was to start for his tax evasion trial. (Associated Press)
Sep 6, 2024

Hunter Biden enters surprising guilty plea to tax charges

LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday in a surprise move that spares President Joe Biden and his family another likely embarrassing and painful criminal […]

Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and a former governor of Alaska, sued The New York Times for libel, alleging a 2017 editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. (Associated Press file)
Aug 29, 2024

2nd Circuit revives Palin’s libel lawsuit against NYT

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to […]

The Biden administration had announced a policy that would give spouses of U.S. citizens legal status without having to first leave the country. (Associated Press file)
Aug 28, 2024

Judge stays Biden program on immigrant spouses’ legal status

McALLEN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas on Monday paused a Biden administration policy that would give spouses of U.S. citizens legal status without having to first leave the […]

Workers deliver boxes of signed petitions supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban July 5 to the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. (Associated Press file)
Aug 23, 2024

Court decision effectively keeps abortion issue off ballot

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s rejection of signature petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before voters in […]

 Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty today in a fraud case that he previously called a 'witch hunt' and 'baseless.' (Associated Press file)
Aug 19, 2024

Santos expected to plead guilty to multiple counts 

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case, according to a person familiar with the matter.  Santos, a Republican from […]

An election worker sorts ballots on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, at the Kenosha Municipal Building in Kenosha, Wis. (Associated Press file)
Aug 2, 2024

Court refuses GOP request to pause absentee voting rule

MADISON, Wis. — A judge refused Thursday to put on hold his ruling that allows disabled people in Wisconsin to be emailed absentee ballots at home in November’s presidential election […]

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Missouri constitutional amendment that barred former lawmakers from lobbying their successors at the state Capitol, above, for two years after leaving the legislature. (Associated Press file)
Jul 31, 2024

Court strikes down lobbying limits on ex-lawmakers

COLUMBIA, Mo. — A federal court on Monday ruled against a Missouri ban on lawmakers taking sometimes lucrative lobbying jobs shortly after leaving office. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of […]

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen has told counties to reject the signatures of inactive voters in verifying signatures to qualify proposed constitutional amendments for the state’s ballot. (Associated Press file)
Jul 12, 2024

Referendum rule change prompts Montana lawsuit

HELENA, Mont. — Two organizations that gathered voter signatures to qualify proposed constitutional amendments for the Montana ballot have filed a lawsuit alleging that the secretary of state changed the […]

State Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, right, talks to Sen. Michael Johnson, R-Tega Cay, Wednesday in the Senate chamber in Columbia the day after she lost her runoff election. GOP state Sens. Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson also lost their runoffs, leaving the party with no women in the General Assembly’s upper chamber for its next session. (Associated Press)
Jul 2, 2024

Voters oust last GOP female state senators

COLUMBIA — The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. In […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a redrawn coastal South Carolina congressional district does not discriminate against Black voters. (Associated Press)
May 24, 2024

SCOTUS: No bias in redrawing of SC congressional district

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the redrawing of a South Carolina congressional district, dismissing claims of racial discrimination.


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