Category Archives: Justice
R. Kelly nears OK for new legal team for upcoming trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed R&B singer R. Kelly will likely get to keep a new lawyer in his federal sex-trafficking case despite questions about the attorney’s texts and other communications with one of Kelly’s ex-girlfriends.
Migrants will replace inmates in a South Texas prison
DALLAS (AP) — Texas is transferring inmates from a state prison to make room for migrants detained by state authorities, a prison system spokesman said Thursday.
UK government ‘ashamed’ at poor rape conviction rates
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has apologized to rape victims for declining conviction levels, with senior Cabinet ministers saying they're “deeply ashamed” by the downward trend in bringing sexual offenders to justice.
Business Highlights: Jobless claims, ‘Obamacare’ survival
___ US jobless claims tick up to 412,000 from a pandemic low
Mistrial halts case on minimum wage for immigrant detainees
SEATTLE (AP) — A trial over whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state has
Missouri responds defiantly to Justice Dept. over gun law
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Republican governor and attorney general said in a defiant letter to the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday that they stand by the state's new law that would ban police from enforcing federal gun rules.
Rule changes allow for delivery of non-medical marijuana in British Columbia
VICTORIA — British Columbia's legal cannabis operators will be allowed to deliver directly to buyers starting on July 15. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says the government wants to shrink the illegal market and allowing delivery to consumers i...
Judge: Woman’s confession in death of Texas soldier stays
WACO, Texas (AP) — A judge denied a request to suppress the confession of a woman accused of helping kill and dismember Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was missing for about two months before her remains were found.
Ottawa using “racist” Indian Act to narrow Jordan’s Principle eligibility, AFN argues
OTTAWA — Canada's attempt to narrow the list of First Nations children who can access services under Jordan's Principle is linked to the country's long-standing "racist and colonial" policies toward Indigenous Peoples, lawyers argued in Federal Court T...
Senate GOP hails new Interior deputy as ‘voice of reason’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily confirmed former Obama administration official Tommy Beaudreau as deputy secretary at the Interior Department on Thursday, a rare bipartisan moment in an increasingly bitter fight over President Joe Biden's policies ...
