Despite criticism during her first term, progressive prosecutor Kim Foxx won reelection as Cook County state’s attorney by a 14-point margin.
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Reform-minded prosecutors across the US notched victories against traditional law-and-order candidates by running on progressive platforms to reduce mass incarceration and tackle police misconduct.
The Supreme Court will soon add another originalist to its ranks if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed.
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If successful, Barrett would become the seventh current Supreme Court justice to be raised a Catholic, but more importantly the sixth conservative Christian.
What message is Attorney General William Barr sending citizens in defying court order?
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Conflict made its way to the Supreme Court this past session with two cases – one about the census, the other about gerrymandering. A court scholar says the two cases are intimately connected.
Still a US citizen and still liable for US taxes.
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Taxation is not the only financial burden for overseas Americans.
Pages from Robert Mueller’s final report on the special counsel investigation into Donald Trump, which show heavy redaction by the Department of Justice.
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Mueller’s report describes more than a dozen times Trump may have broken the law. Here’s how Congress will decide whether the president obstructed justice during federal probes into his presidency.
The Mark 1 robot resembles actor Scarlett Johansson.
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Intimacy with robots is closer than you think, and cities are already fighting the advent of sexbot brothels. Yet society has barely begun to explore their implications.
Circumcision of all genders is an issue.
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Why ‘unconstitutional’ anti-FGM law was set on a collision course with US supreme law.
‘Unconstitutional’ US anti-FGM law shows urgent need to prevent all child genital cutting
Youth detention center in Atlanta.
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A neuroscientist explains how detention can affect a developing mind, as a new law in California sets the highest age limit in the US for minors to be held criminally responsible, at age 12.
U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Topeka, Kan., Oct. 6, 2018.
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US law says the president can’t be indicted, an echo of ancient Roman law. The efforts Roman leader Julius Caesar made to maintain his immunity is a cautionary tale for America’s political system.
Trump’s long-time lawyer and political ‘fixer’ has pleaded guilty to breaking two campaign finance laws, allegedly at the direction of the president.
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Trump’s former personal lawyer broke two laws that control political spending, both passed after major election scandals. President Roosevelt survived his campaign’s misdeeds. Nixon did not.
A date with destiny: Donald Trump and Anthony Kennedy.
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Privacy rules enacted in Europe are affecting companies – and their customers and users – all around the world.
The justices have previously ruled that the government cannot compel people to speak its message or associate with ideas they do not hold.
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Most people know that the First Amendment protects free speech. But two upcoming Supreme Court cases reveal how it also gives people in the US the right not to speak.
Dead from the My Lai massacre.
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If Americans remember My Lai, they likely know that something awful happened there. On this 50th anniversary, it is worth recalling the grotesque details, in the hope of preventing a future My Lai.
Trump with Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
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