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Jan 12, 2024 · Ballot-counting machines from Dominion Voting are lined up at a Torrance County warehouse during a testing of election equipment in Estancia, N.M., on Sept. 29, 2022.

Aug 21, 2024 · DENVER (CN) — Prosecutors from the 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Colorado asked a federal judge on Wednesday to apply absolute immunity and dismiss a $15 million lawsuit filed by a widower who was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife in 2021.. Barry Morphew’s wife, Suzanne, disappeared from their home in …

3 days ago · Courthouse News columnist; racehorse owner and breeder; one of those guys who always got picked last. A Savanna elephant is photographed in Kruger National Park, South Africa, in this March 4, 2020, file photo. (Jerome Delay/AP) Sometimes I think we should maybe stop inventing things. It’s bad ...

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Dec 5, 2024 · CHICAGO (CN) — The Illinois assault weapon and extended ammo magazine bans are back in play as of Thursday afternoon, per an order from a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel that freezes a lower court's recent ruling against the bans. "The absence of support in other circuits for the district court’s disposition lends strength to a conclusion that the Illinois statutes should remain in ...

FILE - The 2025 New Year's Eve numerals are displayed in Times Square, on Dec. 18, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Nov 20, 2024 · Rudy Giuliani walking outside the E. Barrett Prettman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., after a jury determined he owed $148 million in a defamation case brought by former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Nov 12, 2024 · CHICAGO (CN) — A Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel expressed some doubts on Tuesday about whether the Federal Bureau of Prisons acted improperly when it denied a death row inmate’s visitation request.

Nov 6, 2024 · MANHATTAN (CN) — Early Wednesday morning in West Palm Beach, Florida, soon-to-be Vice President JD Vance celebrated Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential win by calling it “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.”. Trump had plenty to overcome to get back into the White House, even as his race against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris was ...