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House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release Matt Gaetz ethics report, source says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee voted in secret to release the long-awaited ethics report into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, raising the possibility that the allegations against the Florida Republican who was President-elect Donald Trump's first choice for attorney general could be made public...
Supreme Court will hear arguments over the law that could ban TikTok in the US if it's not sold
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. The justices will hear arguments Jan. 10 about whether the...
Former Alabama police sergeant gets over a year in prison for beating a jailed man
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police sergeant was sentenced to over a year in federal prison with nearly two years of supervised release after pleading guilty in August to beating a man in a jail cell. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that Ryan Phillips,...
US to pay nearly $116M to settle lawsuits over rampant sexual abuse at California women's prison
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government will pay nearly $116 million to resolve lawsuits brought by more than 100 women who say they were abused or mistreated at a now-shuttered federal prison in California that was known as the “rape club” because of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct. ...
New Orleans wants to end federal oversight of its police. Critics aren't convinced
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city of New Orleans and the U.S. Justice Department are pushing to end more than a decade of police oversight that was ordered in response to a long history of mistreatment of African Americans and notorious corruption, including a 1994 murder ordered by a crooked cop and...
California’s jail population will rise thanks to Prop. 36. So will inmate deaths, advocates say
According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank. “Saying people died in jails is a little bit of a misnomer,” said Barnes, who is also the...
Two charged in connection with Iran-backed drone strike that killed 3 US troops in the Middle East
BOSTON (AP) — Two men, including a dual Iranian American citizen, have been charged with conspiring to export sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American troops early this year and injured dozens of other service members, the Justice...
Supreme Court declines appeal from Peter Navarro; Trump White House aide to return after prison term
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from Peter Navarro, the former White House official who is set to return in Donald Trump's second term after serving prison time on contempt of Congress charges. The court declined to hear the appeal in a brief order...
Court denies TikTok's request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review
A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States, rejecting a request made by the company to halt enforcement until the Supreme Court reviews its challenge of the statute. Attorneys...
NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents' civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice report. The report on a pattern and practice...
