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Biden 'surprised' about classified files discovery at former office

"I don't know what's in the documents," he said, indicating his lawyers had advised him not to ask a...

AI-powered "robot" lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in US court

Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company's AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to cou...

US seizes 55 websites for illegally livestreaming World Cup

The websites were shut down after a FIFA representative identified sites being used to distribute co...

Mixed emotions over arrest of Lockerbie bombing suspect

All 259 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 747 bound for New York from London died while anothe...

Florida lawmaker charged with pandemic aid fraud

State Rep. Joe Harding of Ocala, Florida, illegally obtained or tried to obtain more than $150,000 i...

US Supreme Court hears case of web designer who doesn't want to work on same-sex weddings

Challenging the law is Lorie Smith, a custom web designer who is opposed to same-sex marriage. "I wa...

Man jailed 21 years for shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker

James Howard Jackson pleaded no contest – similar to a guilty plea – to attempted murder....

Unpaid $77 Trash Bill: Police arrest elderly Alabama woman

Martha Louis Menefield said she was confused as officers handcuffed her and arrested her on Sunday....

San Francisco supervisors vote to allow police to use robots to kill

The vote came after heated debate on a policy that would allow officers to use ground-based robots t...

Kanye West to pay Kim Kardashian $200,000 per month in child support as divorce settled

Kardashian filed for divorce in 2021, after eight years with West, who has legally changed his name ...

US: Founder of cyberfraud prevention company sentenced to prison for defrauding investors

Mr. Rogas, who was primarily responsible for the company’s fundraising activities is also accused of...

Harvard and Yale Law Schools withdraw from U.S. news rankings, citing 'flawed' system

“It does not advance the best ideals of legal education or the profession we serve," Harvard Law Sch...

Gun hidden in a raw chicken found at Florida TSA checkpoint

The passenger was headed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, according to Sari Koshetz, a TSA spokesperson for...

Twitter sued for mass layoffs by Musk without enough notice

The lawsuit comes as the new boss plans to eliminate half of the workforce. Musk called a similar, e...

Ex-boxer Goran Gogic charged over $1bn cocaine seizure

Goran Gogic is accused of overseeing the logistics for the transport of 22 tonnes of Colombian cocai...

Elon Musk fires entire Twitter board and makes himself sole director

The world's richest man is already proposing major changes for the social media platform as he embar...

New York City agrees to pay $26 million to 2 men wrongly convicted of Malcolm X murder

Both Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam were exonerated last year after a judge found “serious miscar...

Trump attacks New York judge overseeing Letitia James' $250m lawsuit against him

Trump attacked the New York state judge, Arthur Engoron, in an angry post on his Truth Social web si...

Elon Musk completes $44bn Twitter takeover - and immediately sacks top executives

It ends months of bad blood between the two parties regarding the takeover, with Elon Musk complaini...

Ex-United Nations employee sentenced for multiple rapes

The sentencing of a former United Nations communications specialist was punctuated by the tears and ...

Teenage chess player Hans Niemann sues for $100m after being accused of cheating

The 19-year-old was accused of widespread cheating following an investigation by online platform Che...

Ohio Supreme Court suspends judge who ignored pandemic, joked about kickbacks

The court on Tuesday said Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Suzanne Carr also abused her contem...

US actor & rapper Kaalan Walker sentenced 50 years to life in prison for raping multiple women

Kaalan Walker was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for sex-related charges involving women an...

Coachella files copyright infringement lawsuit against Afrochella

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at a California district court and obtained by Rolling Stone, comes thr...

Ed Sheeran must face copyright trial over Thinking Out Loud, judge rules

A judge denied Sheeran's bid to dismiss the case, saying a jury should decide on the similarities be...