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Feds Indict Hundreds Linked to World’s Largest Child-Porn Site
Oct 16, 2019 · Hundreds of people in the United States and around the world were charged Wednesday in a bust of what the Department of Justice is calling the internet’s largest cache of child porn.
Details of voting equipment breach emerge in Dominion security …
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.
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Donald Trump loses civil rape trial, ordered to pay $5 million
May 9, 2023 · MANHATTAN (CN) — A jury of New Yorkers found Donald Trump liable Tuesday in a stunning end to the former president's federal trial on civil claims that he raped writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996.
The case against Backpage finally reaches trial — again
Aug 29, 2023 · PHOENIX (CN) — Delayed by three weeks after the death of a main co-defendant, the federal prostitution-facilitation and money laundering case against former Backpage.com owners and employees is nearing opening arguments.
Death Sentence Upheld for Spokane Serial Killer
Mar 18, 2013 · (CN) – Robert Lee Yates Jr., a serial killer who admitted to murdering more than a dozen prostitutes, failed to show proof of trial error, the Washington Supreme Court ruled. Yates, a decorated former military helicopter pilot, pleaded guilty in 2000 to murdering 13 women in Spokane County and was sentenced to 408 years in prison.
Judges frustrated as Scientology head David Miscavige dodges …
Feb 8, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (CN) — David Miscavige, the second and current head of the Church of Scientology, is a hard man to find. Plaintiffs in two separate cases are trying to serve Miscavige with complaints and summons, but the religious leader has proved elusive.
Ninth Circuit finds that convicted felons also have Second …
May 9, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their Second Amendment rights, at least when it comes to nonviolent offenders who served out their sentence.
5 her life and personal relationships. Given the brave women who have come forward against Ms. Combs and Mr. Pierre in recent weeks, Ms. Doe is doing the same.