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Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk's buyout of the social media platform.

Rudy Giuliani's defense lawyers had not

The conservative legal advocate is a central figure in Democrats’ ongoing investigation into ethically dubious conduct by some justices on the high court.

Chipotle was hit with a $1.3 million fine over more than 13,000 child labor violations at its Massachusetts restaurants, the state's attorney general announced Monday.

An Illinois teenager charged with shooting three people and killing two at a protest in Wisconsin last August pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder charges during an arraignment hearing in Kenosha.

A watchdog group is urging the Federal Election Commission to investigate claims that embattled U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reimbursed former employees for GOP campaign donations.

The discussion was part of several events hosted by Jill Biden for the spouses of Asia-Pacific leaders in California this week for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

TAMPA — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle by her half-sister Samantha. Subjective statements made by Meghan, including

The judge refused to accept findings from a U.K. court that ruled the

Guo Wengui, the self-exiled Chinese billionaire and associate of Steve Bannon, is set to go to trial in April on charges of defrauding investors of $1 billion.

Paxton's defense team expressed confidence Friday that the attorney general will be acquitted of charges that have dogged him since 2015.

Prosecutors say the men were furious with the governor for shutting down the state during the Covid-19 pandemic and vowed to try her for treason.

A federal judge paved the way on Monday for Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas to comply with a House subpoena for information relevant to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

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A Virginia judge said actress Amber Heard must also turn over a range of documents related to claims that she was the victim of domestic violence.

Two years to the day after Amber Heard published an editorial describing the backlash she faced as a domestic abuse survivor, a Virginia judge ordered the actress to produce her arrest record as part...

A Louisiana abortion law requiring doctors who perform the procedure to have credentials to enter nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision.

The New York City jury will start deliberating on the fate of LaPierre and his co-defendants Friday.

In a First Amendment victory for the network, CNN can protect its newsgathering from Trump-loyalist Congressman Devin Nunes until a federal judge decides whether to dismiss the litigation-happy...

On top of over $2 million in damages a court ordered he and his anti-abortion cohorts to pay last year for secretly recording abortion providers, David Daleiden and his associates were hit with...

Five of six men accused of planning to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer must stand trial, a federal magistrate ruled Friday.

A transparency watchdog’s lawsuit against Fox News over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic – including repeatedly calling it a hoax during broadcasts – is as novel as the coronavirus but likely...

Tina Peters requested an injunction to halt her Feb. 9 criminal trial. She faces charges related to leaking voting machine passwords in 2021.

Sprinkling her ruling with the wisdom of literary lawyer Atticus Finch, an Alabama-born federal judge stopped President Trump’s Interior Department from declaring open season on practices that...

Wall of Moms, an organization of yellow-clad mothers turning out night after night to form a human shield protecting peaceful protesters from federal agents, is suing the Trump administration to stop...

The arrests come as authorities crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.

The judge called the supposed evidence speculative and noted no actual harm has occurred.

In a wide-ranging court memorandum, attorneys for the

An attorney for former CEO Laurence Doud told Courthouse News he's confident the conviction will be overturned.

ATLANTA (CN) — Attorneys for Reality Winner asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reverse an order denying her request for compassionate release from a Texas prison, where she is serving a five-year...

Brandon Fellows, who is representing himself against the advice of a federal judge and his standby defense counsel, admitted to new felonies during a bond hearing Tuesday.

The U.S. government considers Jeffrey Epstein’s globe-trotting ex-girlfriend far too big a flight risk to allow bail as she awaits trial on sex-trafficking charges, prosecutors wrote Friday to a...

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found that deficiencies with security cameras have compromised investigations into staff misconduct, the introduction of contraband, civil rights violations...

A watchdog group accused President Trump’s re-election campaign on Tuesday of laundering nearly $170 million in campaign funds.

Charges still remain against former President Donald Trump's eponymous real estate empire, and Allen Weisselberg, who controlled the entity's finances for decades, has agreed to testify against it as...

The Netherlands brought a case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights on Friday over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, escalating tensions over the 2014 crash as a separate...

The trial comes on the heels of the seditious conspiracy convictions of two leaders of the Oath Keepers, another far-right extremist group.

An Idaho lawmaker accused of rape by a 19-year-old legislative intern has resigned after an ethics committee found he should be formally censured.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation lost its bid to block a Washington state law that holds firearm manufacturers and sellers liable when guns fall into the hands of dangerous individuals.

A 33-year-old California Army veteran identified by an Instagram account as one of the insurrectionists at the Capitol riot faces charges of removing police barricades to enter the Capitol building.

Jurors convicted Tim Shea of fleecing the charity he started with Steve Bannon and others to fulfill former President Donald Trump's signature campaign promise of a border wall.

In a pair of Thursday rulings, federal judges demanded more transparency about the civil and criminal cases alleging that Ghislaine Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein groom underaged girls for sexual...

As public discomfort and scrutiny of Facebook has grown in recent weeks, the focus has homed in on Mark Zuckerberg, who controls more than 50% of Facebook’s voting shares.

The head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media illegally funneled millions from his nonprofit to a for-profit film company, the attorney general for the District of Columbia claims in a lawsuit filed...

Nearly five years after the deadly San Bernardino terror attack, a California man who supplied the rifles used to kill 14 people and wound 22 others was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.

In practice, the law would have burdened teens from accessing free library books appropriate for their reading level, the federal judge wrote.

Nearly 400 people who were either wounded while serving in the U.S. military in Afghanistan or family members of service members who died in the conflict sued a group of companies on Friday they say...

Federal agents sent by President Donald Trump to protect federal buildings in Portland are now under an injunction barring them from assaulting journalists and legal observers. The government says it...

No hiring boost is foreseen for the criminal investigation unit, which represents 3% of the agency's workforce. Those are the agents who may be armed.

A Wisconsin judge found there is probable cause that a 17-year-old claiming self-defense in the killing of two protesters committed murder and bound the teenager over for trial Thursday.

Aaron Dean would have been eligible for only probation if jurors decided on a prison sentence of less than 10 years for killing Atatiana Jefferson in 2019.

Attorneys are building their defamation case with charges that Depp's ex-wife, Amber Heard, didn't make charitable donations as promised.

A panel of appeals judges directed the disgraced socialite to take up her allegations of mistreatment during her pretrial detention with the district court.

Singer also was ordered to pay more than $10 million in restitution to the IRS and forfeit millions more in money and assets to the government.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Facebook’s last-ditch effort to derail a $35 billion class action claiming the company harvested millions of users’ facial data without consent.

Yashar Ali, who has more than 700,000 Twitter followers, owes Ariadne Getty nearly $250,000. Now anything he makes will go to her.

French prosecutors have indicted pharma giant Sanofi for manslaughter over birth defects linked to an epilepsy drug, the company said Monday, in a long-running case that has also seen it charged with...

While often decried as an unaffordable foray into socialism, a single-payer health care system would, if implemented in the United States, bring overall health care costs down over time – possibly in...

Two days shy of his anticipated congressional testimony, Russian-mafia tied businessman Felix Sater has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him of trying to launder looted money through the aborted...

The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, which has been bogged down in testimony by Theranos’ former lab director, picked back up again Tuesday with titillating text messages shared by the prosecution.

Menendez pleaded not guilty earlier this week to the latest indictment including the four charges and other charges contained in subsequent rewrites of the charging document.

The speech sought to cement the U.S. commitment to supporting its allies in an area of growing importance to the Biden administration.

Just hours before a Maryland man from the Jan. 6 insurrection was supposed to be sentenced for the low-level misdemeanor of parading, an online sleuthing group tweeted out video of the man attacking...

Roughly two decades before she was elected to Congress, Cori Bush lived in a Ford Explorer with her then-husband and two young children after the family had been evicted from their rental home.

The three militia members could face up to 20 years in prison for providing training to would-be kidnapper Adam Fox.