Legal battle over U.S. gerrymandering shifts to North Carolina as trial begins
North Carolina’s state legislative districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to entrench Republicans in power and must be thrown out, a lawyer for state Democrats and a good-government advocacy group told a panel of judges on Monday.
U.S. prosecutor calls Jeffrey Epstein ‘extraordinary’ flight risk as judge weighs bail
A U.S. prosecutor on Monday said Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier charged with sex trafficking underage girls, poses an “extraordinary risk of flight” and danger to the community and must remain in jail until his trial.
Trump administration sets new rule to make it harder for immigrants to seek asylum
The Trump administration on Monday said it would take steps to make it more difficult for immigrants arriving on the southern border to seek asylum in the United States, putting the onus on them to ask for shelter in other countries.
U.S. judge will probably decide financier Epstein’s bail request on Thursday
A U.S. judge said he will probably decide on Thursday whether Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier charged with sex trafficking underage girls, should remain in jail while awaiting trial or be allowed to live under house arrest at his Manhattan mans…
Judge says he will probably decide Thursday on financier Epstein’s bail request
A U.S. judge said he will probably decide on Thursday whether Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier charged with sex trafficking underage girls, should be freed from jail and allowed to await trial under house arrest at his Manhattan mansion.
Trump administration sets ‘new bar’ for immigrants seeking asylum
Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States from Mexico must now also first seek protection from a so-called third party country, the Trump administration said on Monday.
Trump presses attack on Democratic ‘squad’ congresswomen, wants apology
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against four first-year Democratic congresswomen on Monday after earlier telling them to “go back” to the “places from which they came” in a series of weekend tweets that Democrats and other critics cal…
Balfour Beatty unit appoints counsel to probe U.S. Air Force base allegations
A unit of British infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has appointed Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP to work with the U.S. Air Force and other authorities to investigate allegations that it falsified maintenance records at a U.S. Air Force base.
Louisiana to release autopsy on dead civil rights activist found in car trunk
A Louisiana medical examiner is set to release on Monday the results of the autopsy of a prominent civil rights activist and founder of an African-American history museum whose body was found in the trunk of her car in the state capital last week.
U.S. judge to hear financier Jeffrey Epstein’s bid to get out of jail before trial
Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier charged with sex trafficking underage girls, is expected to argue in court on Monday that he should be freed from jail and allowed to await trial under house arrest at his Manhattan mansion.
