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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s lawyer revealed the two key reasons why he suddenly flipped and fessed up to viciously killing eight sex workers after years of maintaining his innocence.
USC student Tucker Collins’s attorney accuses homeland security of ‘overt act of repression’ at Los Angeles protest
Chairs stand at a post office in the aftermath of the Santiam Fire in Gates, Ore., Sept 9, 2020. (Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP, File)
Prosecutors are seeking all the records connected to Tiger Woods' prescription medications, including dosage and warnings about driving on pill bottles, court documents show.
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A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday denied Anthropic's request for a stay in its lawsuit against the Department of Defense.
Two-week truce with Tehran leaves Trump mere days to finalise a deal before a legal cut-off triggers a high-stakes clash with Congress
Two-week truce with Tehran leaves Trump mere days to finalise a deal before a legal cut-off triggers a high-stakes clash with Congress
El director ejecutivo de NBCUniversal, Jeff Shell, posa para una foto en la 30ª gala anual de los premios Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards, celebrada en el Ziegfeld Ballroom el 14 de abril de 2022 en Nueva York. (Foto Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, archivo)
Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison’s execution chamber, Oct. 13, 1999. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Attorneys for two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools.
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NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell poses for a photo at the 30th annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, April 14, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
The High Court of Justice has postponed the joint hearing in the anti-war protest case and the Western Wall worship case from Wednesday to Friday, giving the state more time to file its response affidavits while making clear that the new schedule goes beyond what the state itself had requested.
Two ISIS-inspired accused terrorists charged with hurling homemade bombs into a protest outside Gracie Mansion planned a separate attack driving a large vehicle into a crowd, new court files allege.
Sri Lanka has stepped onto centre court and is playing a winning game as a rising tennis hub in Asia, with a packed international calendar and growing international recognition, according to Iqbal Bin Issack, President of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association.
Texas hemp industry leaders and advocacy groups have sued the state to block new regulations that eliminate natural smokeable hemp products and increase licensing fees.
What do we owe the overseers of Big Tech? Should we be happily mocking the digital aristocracy, the men who sold the world, or finding the means to put them on trial? If you’re leaning towards the former, then this blackly comic dissection of Palo Alto privilege and pettiness will prove plenty satisfying. Set in Ame…
The deranged homeless man accused of savagely butchering Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, on a Charlotte light rail train has been found “incapable to proceed” on state murder charges.
Jasveen Sangha allegedly ran an elaborate operation catering to high-end clients like the 54-year-old Friends star
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped David Woodcock, a Gibson Dunn lawyer and former agency official, to be its next enforcement director after the regulator’s top cop abruptly quit last month.
Florida prosecutors in Tiger Woods’ DUI case want all the records connected to the medications the golfer takes – including any driving warnings that came on pill bottles, a new court record shows.
The daughter of confessed Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann broke down in tears in a Long Island court when her sadistic father admitted to strangling and discarding the bodies of eight women Wednesday.
Jeff Shell is out as president of Paramount Skydance less than a year into the job, marking a stunning second downfall for the embattled media executive amid a bombshell lawsuit accusing him of leaking corporate secrets.
A decades-long saga came to an end in a Suffolk County courtroom on Wednesday, as a six-foot-four man dressed in a black suit and blue tie stood across from a judge and confessed to the gruesome details of murdering eight women.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks at a news conference in Lake Elsinore, Calif., Feb. 7, 2023, as officials announced that the closure of poppy fields at Walker Canyon until the wildflower bloom subsides. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP, File)
Outrage over gang-rape victim Noelia Castillo being able to end her life against her family’s wishes has sparked a major legal battle to overhaul Spain’s controversial euthanasia laws to make it easier for relatives to intervene.
A former San Francisco human rights boss accused of squandering city funds to pay for personal projects and her son’s tuition is still collecting a taxpayer-backed check as she faces a battery of criminal charges in court.
A longtime Rangers fan and Madison Square Garden staple known as “Dancing Larry” is accused of inappropriate behavior during his recurring act in a new lawsuit.
Matthew Perry’s mother and stepfather arrived at a Los Angeles court for the sentencing of “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha, who supplied the drugs that tragically killed the “Friends” star.
Rex A. Heuermann, pleads guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings, at a court hearing in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool)
The Digital Realty Innovation Lab lets companies test liquid cooling, which is not yet mainstream in Japan. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)
Nothing was going right for Daniil Medvedev on Wednesday, and he threw a whopper of an on-court tantrum.
Media outlets defended their reporting as true on the balance of probabilities, but prosecutors in criminal cases need to meet a higher burden of proof
Last week, David Zaslav received a call from an unknown number. Against his better judgement, he picked up.
PARIS — French Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan has filed a complaint after details of her arrest were leaked to the media while she was in custody last week.
The China Animal Agriculture Association said that in 2024 duck and goose production was down 10% from 2019
Daniil Medvedev has previously said he does not judge players "who like to be on the dirt like a dog" on clay courts
A judge in St. Petersburg on Wednesday sentenced six former members of the democratic youth organization Vesna to prison sentences of varying lengths after they were found guilty of charges including extremism and spreading “war fakes.”
Bicol Saro Partylist Rep. Terry Ridon calls the move of the camp of Vice President Sara Duterte to file a petition at the Supreme Court as a 'deception,' stressing that it is the plenary at the House of Representatives that moved the complaints to the justice committee for investigation. Duterte filed a petition for…
The gunman who killed two people and wounded six others at Florida State University last year may have used ChatGPT to help plan the mass shooting, according to one of the victim’s attorneys planning to file a lawsuit against the chatbot’s maker, OpenAI.
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A man has been fined $300 (£223) by a Thai court after breaking into the enclosure of Moo Deng, an endangered baby pygmy hippo and internet sensation, the zoo's director said.
FILE -A boy steps over pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his late father, Hafez Assad, right, Salamiyah, east of Hama, Syria, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
A court on Wednesday dismissed an injunction request by North Jeolla Gov. Kim Kwan-young to suspend his expulsion by the ruling Democratic Party.
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MANILA, Philippines — The Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 21 granted the alleged bagman of Vice President Sara Duterte, permission to attend the impeachment hearing against her.
Democratic-backed candidate’s win to Wisconsin supreme court gives liberals 5-2 edge on court
SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) -- A court on Wednesday dismissed an injunction request by North Jeolla Gov. Kim Kwan-young to suspend his expulsion by the ruling Democratic Party.