The US government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades, despite the objections of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings surrounding r…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Lee killed a family of three before dumping their bodies in a lake The first federal execution in the United States for more than 17 years is set to go ahead in Indiana on Monday following a ruling by an appeal court. The execution of convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee…
Michael Flynn, former U.S. national security advisor, arrives for a status hearing at federal court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 10, 2018.Yuri Gripas | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe judge in Michael Flynn's criminal case asked a federal appeals court Thursday to reconsider its ruling ordering him to dismiss the criminal case against the…
A federal judge did Monday what years of protests could not: shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, at least temporarily. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg said in a ruling that the pipeline must be emptied while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers produces an Environmental Impact Statement on the segment that runs below Lake…
Former Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman will testify next week before the House Judiciary committee in a closed door hearing – just weeks after President Trump fired him. Berman will appear before the Democrat-led House committee next Thursday, Fox News is told.Attorney General William Barr informed Berman late last month that…
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…