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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.
Memoirist Dodges Suit After Odd Obama Claims
Mar 2, 2012 · WASHINGTON (CN) – A man whose memoir leveled accusations of gay sex, drug use and murder at President Barack Obama does not have to face defamation claims from a political blogger he accused of rigging a lie-detector test, a federal judge ruled. Larry Sinclair made headlines during the 2008 presidential campaign with a short YouTube
Wisconsin antifreeze murderer again sentenced to life without …
Apr 14, 2023 · Mark Jensen, 63, awaits the jury's verdict at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in his retrial where prosecutors again claimed he used antifreeze to murder his wife in 1998.
Witness recounts secret affair with Georgia woman accused of …
Oct 15, 2024 · Outside of the Cherokee County Courthouse in Canton, Georgia where Melody Farris is on trial for fatally shooting her husband and burning his body on October 15, 2024 (Megan Butler/Courthouse News)
Backpage executives acquitted of previous prostitution, money ...
Apr 24, 2024 · PHOENIX (CN) — Five months after a jury convicted them on dozens of prostitution and money laundering charges, a federal judge acquitted former executives of the controversial classified advertising website Backpage.com on most of the counts lodged against them.. Backpage founder Michael Lacey and two executives Scott Spear and John Brunst were convicted in November after five years of ...
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.
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.
At pivotal time for Rikers, experts say federal control is best path ...
May 19, 2022 · The union has pushed back on receivership, as have the department and Mayor Eric Adams, saying the city already has the power it needs to meet the recommendations of a court-appointed monitor in the matter Nunez v. City of New York in Manhattan federal court.. On Tuesday, the city filed its plan to reform Rikers following a letter by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian ...
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.