A federal judge on Monday ordered the government to explain the “scope” of President Trump’s commutation of longtime GOP operative Roger Stone, including whether the move only involved the sentence of incarceration, or also the period of supervised release.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the government to provide the court by Tuesday, July 14, “a…
Three executions are scheduled this week at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., but legal challenges make it unclear when — or if — they'll go forward. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Conroy/AP Three executions are scheduled this week at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., but legal challenges make it…
Florida’s top school official issued a sweeping executive order Monday requiring all schools in the state to reopen their buildings for in-person instruction for the coming school year, even as coronavirus cases in the state continued to rise.Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, a Republican and former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, issued the order,…
The Dakota Access Pipeline must shut down by August 5 during an in-depth environmental review of the controversial project, a district court ruled Monday in a defeat for the Trump administration.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption"This monument will never be desecrated," President Trump said at Mount Rushmore US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a "National Garden of American Heroes" to defend what he calls "our great national story" against those who vandalise statues.His executive order gives a new task…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…