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Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
NY Rejects Extradition Request For LA Doctor Sending Abortion Pills
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejected Louisiana’s request to extradite a doctor from her state accused of prescribing and mailing abortion...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
How Philadelphia 'Brotherhood' Helps Bail Out Defendants
Unable to post bail, Elijah Peterson, 30, awoke in a Philadelphia jail cell longing to go home. He prayed, “Please, Allah, get me out of...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 141 min read
Ohio Gov Delays Three Executions, Citing Drug Shortage
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine extended the state’s unofficial death penalty moratorium again Thursday as he postponed three more executions that...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
Veteran National Security Experts Missing From DOJ 'Threat' Session
Every morning at 9:45, top Justice Department officials meet to discuss the nation’s most pressing threats and update each other on...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
Texas, Florida Conduct Nation's Fourth, Fifth Executions In 2025
A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, later prompting a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 141 min read
Panel Puts Patel On Track To Win FBI Director Confirmation
Kash Panel is headed for confirmation as FBI director after a 12-10 party-line vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance his...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
Kansas City Man Pleading Guilty To Shooting Of Black Teen
An 86-year-old Kansas City man is pleading guilty to the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl a Black honor student who rang the man’s doorbell...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 141 min read
Long-Serving IL Legislative Leader Madigan Guilty Of Corruption
After the conviction this week of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s on multiple federal corruption charges, Republicans...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 131 min read
Pope Francis Says Mass Deportations 'Will End Badly,' Rebukes Migrant Crackdown
Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants , warning that the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
Albuquerque Attorney Admits Guilt, Says That DWI Corruption 'Took Root' Across Generations of Officers
Thomas Clear III, an Albuquerque attorney, admitted to running what federal authorities have referred to as a “DWI Enterprise” in which...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
New Mexico Jury Convicts Police Officer of Voluntary Manslaughter In Fatal Shooting Of Black Man
A former police officer was found guilty Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man during a 2022...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
DOJ Sues New York Over Law Allowing Undocumented Immigrants to Get Driver's Licenses
The second Donald Trump administration brought a civil action against New York over provisions in the state’s “Green Light” law, which...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
ACLU Sues For Access To Migrants Flown To Guantanamo Bay
Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants who they say have been flown to...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 131 min read
Sonya Massey’s Family To Receive $10M Settlement After Her Death
A $10 million settlement between county officials in Springfield, Illinois, and the family of Sonya Massey is the “first step in getting...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
Some Migrants Guarded by Military, in Guantanamo Prison Where Al Qaeda Suspects Held
Dozens of Venezuelan migrants sent by the Trump administration to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are being guarded by...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 131 min read
More Than Two-Dozen Religious Groups Sue to Block ICE Arrests at Houses of Worship
More than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups have filed a federal lawsuit over the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
Some Chicago Gunshot Victims Don’t Trust Ambulances
Ask a Chicagoan and you’ll hear that ambulances don’t always arrive quickly when someone is shot. People have died while waiting. As a...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
House Democrats Who Used to Work at DOJ Ask for Investigation of Top Two Justice Officials
House Democrats on Wednesday formally called for an investigation into two top officials at the Justice Department, part of a ramped-up...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 122 min read
Maryland Officials Sue Glock Over 'Switches'
Baltimore and Maryland authorities on Wednesday sued Glock, the maker of some of the best-selling handguns in America, in an attempt to...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 122 min read
CA Counties Struggle to Follow Through With Promised Mass Drug Treatment
It’s been three months since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 , a new law that pledged to provide “mass...
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