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A viral tweet purported to quote a tense exchange between Biden's attorney general nominee and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a historic $44.7 million judgement against the city stemming from a shooting by an off-duty Chicago cop, saying that while the incident that left the cop's friend paralyzed was "tragic" the city cannot be held liable.

While Trump's personal lawyers may choose to fight their appeal in the case, the release of the documents by Mazars effectively ends the dispute.

The move clears the way for prosecutors in New York to receive eight years of the ex-president's tax returns and financial records.

If all goes as planned at this week's Senate confirmation hearing and Judge Merrick Garland takes the reins as attorney general at the US Justice Department, he will face a daunting thicket of quandaries that present thorny issues of law, accountability and politics, writes Elie Honig.

Barring any surprises at his Senate confirmation hearing next week, Judge Merrick Garland appears poised to become President Joe Biden's first attorney general, bringing a longtime jurist with a steadying hand to a department that's teetering between crises.

Lawsuits involving Donald Trump tore apart the Supreme Court while he was president, and the justices apparently remain riven by him.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's acquittal at his second impeachment trial may not be the final word on whether he's to blame for the deadly Capitol riot. The next step for the former president could be the courts. Now a private citizen, Trump is stripped of his protection from legal liability

Move was expected; new administration wanted to make its position clear, experts say

An American father and son accused of sneaking former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in a box asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to halt their extradition so they have time to pursue an ap…

President Biden will get another opportunity to make a key judicial appointment on what is considered the second most important federal court.

An American father and son accused of sneaking former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in a box are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt their extradition so they have time to pursue an appeal

A federal appeals court ruled that U.S. border agents do not need warrants to search travelers' smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry, a practice that grew during the Trump administration.

Alabama is seeking to carry out what would be the first execution by a state in 2021, that of a 51-year-old inmate convicted of the shotgun slaying of a...

This contradicts a previous ruling, and is a privacy nightmare.

HOUSTON (AP) — For nearly 17 months, the Trump administration tried to deport the mother and daughter from El Salvador. The Biden administration may finish the job. They are being held at a...

A federal appeals court has ruled that sheriff's deputies in Virginia violated the constitutional rights of a Black man when they arrested him for refusing to identify himself

Rennie Davis, one of the "Chicago Seven" activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in which thousands clashed with police in a bloody confrontation that horrified a nation watching live on television, has died. He was 80.

A state district judge in Travis County has temporarily stopped Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program.

HOUSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration has deported hundreds of immigrants in its early days despite his campaign pledge to stop removing most people in the U.S. illegally at the...