Eight people injured in stabbing spree in Colorado Springs: local media
A man was taken into custody after stabbing eight people at multiple locations in Colorado Springs on Monday morning, local media reported.
New York Hanukkah machete attack suspect pleads not guilty to federal charges
The man accused of stabbing at least five people in a machete rampage at the home of a Hasidic rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges on Monday.
Potential jurors report to New York court for second week of Weinstein rape trial
Jury selection in the rape trial of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein entered its second week Monday as the judge and lawyers in the case choose a panel of 12 impartial New Yorkers to decide his fate.
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Sudan bid to limit damages over embassy bombings
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Sudan’s bid to avoid paying $3.8 billion in damages to family members of people killed or injured in al Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania after a lower court found Sudan c…
U.S. to expel some Saudi trainees after naval base shooting
The United States is expected to expel some Saudi military students following a shooting attack by a Saudi trainee at a Florida naval base last month, a U.S. congressional source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
MLB MVPs and Hollywood stars go to bat for California families
Major League Baseball’s best and Hollywood’s brightest teamed up to raise money for families affected by wildfires, mass shootings and other tragedies in California with a softball game in picturesque Malibu on Sunday.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects woman’s appeal in teen texting suicide case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place the manslaughter conviction of a Massachusetts woman for goading her boyfriend into committing suicide in 2014 with numerous text messages and phone calls in a case that drew attention to cyber bullying.
U.S. Supreme Court tosses ruling that revived suit against Iran central bank
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that revived a $1.68 billion lawsuit against Iran’s central bank by families of troops killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon in light of a new federal law…
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to ‘Free the Nipple’ in topless women case
The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to “Free the Nipple,” refusing to hear an appeal by three women fined by a city in New Hampshire for exposing their breasts in public who argued that banning female but not male toplessness violates the U.S. Cons…
Avenatti objects to U.S. ‘document dump,’ seeks possible Nike trial delay
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti wants a U.S. judge to exclude large amounts of material that federal prosecutors produced recently for his trial accusing him of trying to extort Nike Inc , or else to delay the Jan. 21 trial by 30 days.
