Bitter divisions on death penalty in U.S. top court exposed in Alabama showdown
The U.S. Supreme Court exposed its bitter divisions over the death penalty yet again early Friday as the justices voted on ideological lines to reject an Alabama inmate’s bid to delay his execution.
U.S. FAA probes sighting of drone over baseball game at Boston’s Fenway Park
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it was investigating a report of a drone flying over Boston’s Fenway Park during Thursday’s baseball game.
F-words and T-shirts: U.S. Supreme Court weighs foul language trademarks
(Editor’s note: contains language that some readers may find offensive, paragraphs 2, 13, 14, 16, 19, 22 and 23)
‘Smart guy’ Florida test taker to plead guilty in U.S. college admissions scandal
A former counselor at a Florida private school is expected to plead guilty on Friday to secretly taking college placement tests for the children of wealthy parents as part of the largest admissions fraud scheme uncovered in U.S. history.
U.S. Supreme Court will allow execution, Alabama still delayed as death warrant expired at midnight
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled early Friday that Alabama can proceed with the execution of a death row inmate whose lawyers argued that lethal injections had been botched in the past, causing a painful death and that execution by nitrogen hypoxia was a b…
DOJ charges property firm founder, former executives in Ponzi scheme
U.S. federal prosecutors charged the owner and two former executives of Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC on Thursday with orchestrating a $1.3-billion Ponzi scheme involving 10,000 victims.
Alabama delays execution of man convicted of 1991 killing
Alabama spared a death row inmate from the execution chamber shortly before midnight on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court did not overturn a temporary stay by a lower court, state officials said.
White House considered releasing detained migrants in sanctuary cities: Washington Post
White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release migrants detained at the border into so-called sanctuary cities such as San Francisco to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s political adversaries, the Washingt…
Chicago sues Jussie Smollett over costs of investigating alleged attack
The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Jussie Smollett seeking three times the damages it said it incurred in the investigation of a hate crime that authorities allege the “Empire” actor staged.
U.S. appeals court stays Alabama execution of man convicted of 1991 killing
A U.S. appeals court temporarily halted the execution in Alabama on Thursday of a man convicted of killing a minister and wounding his wife with a sword and dagger while robbing their home three days before Christmas 1991.
