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President Donald Trump appeals his New York hush money conviction

Jan. 29, 2025 12:00 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has appealed his hush money conviction, seeking to erase the verdict that made him the first person with a criminal record to win the office. Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to...

Former Wisconsin chancellor fired over porn films sues in hopes of teaching again

Jan. 27, 2025 17:40 PM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor fired over his involvement in the adult entertainment industry filed a federal lawsuit Monday in hopes of getting reinstated as a professor at the campus. Joe Gow’s story has garnered national attention...

Former newspaper editor sentenced for paying girls to send him explicit videos

Jan. 16, 2025 18:08 PM EST

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A former Washington state newspaper editor accused of paying girls for sexually explicit images has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Steven Smith, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced on Wednesday, KREM-TV reported. He was arrested in July 2023 and...

Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

Jan. 15, 2025 15:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography, though the justices could still send it back to a lower court for more consideration of how the age verification measure affects adults' free-speech rights. ...

Court lets Tennessee porn site age verification law take effect as Texas law goes to Supreme Court

Jan. 14, 2025 17:30 PM EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of appeals judges has ruled that Tennessee can begin enforcing a law that requires pornographic websites to verify their visitors’ age as the First Amendment debate rises to the U.S. Supreme Court this week for oral arguments over a similar Texas law. ...

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case

Jan. 09, 2025 21:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for felony crimes days before he returns to the presidency. The court’s 5-4...

Judge largely blocks Tennessee's porn site age verification law as other states enforce theirs

Jan. 07, 2025 01:47 AM EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify their visitors' age was largely blocked in court before it was to take effect Jan. 1, even as similar laws kicked in for Florida and South Carolina and remained in effect for more than a dozen other states. ...

Judge rejects Trump’s bid to toss hush money conviction because of Supreme Court immunity ruling

Dec. 16, 2024 20:13 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Monday refused to throw out President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction because of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity. But the overall future of the historic case remains unclear. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan's...