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Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote
Headline Legal News 12/06/2024A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.The Constitutional Co...
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
Legal Events 11/17/2024The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaz...
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South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
National News 11/15/2024South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign.If...
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Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber
Headline Legal News 11/11/2024Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.In a rematch from 2022, ...
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VA asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations
National News 10/26/2024Virginia on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.The request comes after a federal appeals court on Sunday unanimously upheld a federal judg...
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X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’
National News 08/15/2024Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.X is removing all re...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
National News 08/04/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Headline Legal News 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Special Education Lawyers in Connecticut - Maya Murphy, P.C.
Legal Issues 07/11/2024Joseph Maya and the attorneys at Maya Murphy, P.C. practice a range of areas of the law including education and special education law,Parental awareness of a child’s special needs is the best way for the child to exceed expectations and achieve...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
Headline Legal News 06/18/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
National News 05/29/2024A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...
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Hunter Biden arrives at court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial
Legal Events 05/24/2024The judge overseeing Hunter Biden ’s federal firearms charges trial agreed Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the presiden...