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US soldier used classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid
Trial Coverage 04/25/2026A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal offici...
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Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at Tennessee center
Trial Coverage 04/11/2026A man linked to white supremacist movements pleaded guilty on Monday to setting a fire that destroyed an office at a historic social justice center in Tennessee, a court document shows.Regan Prater also pleaded guilty to attempting to aid a foreign t...
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Federal judge blocks Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk
Trial Coverage 03/27/2026A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in temporarily blocking the Pentagon from labeling the company as a supply chain risk.U.S. District Judge Rita Lin on Thursday said she was also blocking enforcement of P...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Trial Coverage 05/05/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Trial Coverage 04/25/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Court: No right to copy court reporter’s recordings
Trial Coverage 10/30/2017Georgia’s highest court says the makers of a popular podcast series do not have the right to copy audio recordings made during a murder trial by a court reporter.The second season of the “Undisclosed” podcast featured the case of Jo...
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Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts
Trial Coverage 10/11/2017An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison.The five men were convicted earlier of criminal conspi...
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Bangladesh High Court upholds death for 2 in blogger killing
Trial Coverage 04/02/2017Bangladesh's High Court on Sunday confirmed the death penalty for two people tied to a banned Islamist militant group for the killing of an atheist blogger critical of radical Islam. The court also upheld jail sentences for six others after appeals w...
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Stepmom of scalded boy who died pleads guilty to murder
Trial Coverage 09/06/2016A woman accused of holding her 4-year-old stepson in a scalding bath, covering his burns and not getting him medical care before he died was sentenced to at least 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder and other charges on Thursday. A War...
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Wisconsin court ends probe of presidential hopeful Walker
Trial Coverage 07/16/2015Presidential candidate Scott Walker won a major legal victory Thursday when Wisconsin's Supreme Court ended a secret investigation into whether the Republican's gubernatorial campaign illegally coordinated with conservative groups during the 2012 rec...
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Court ruling could delay California water project
Trial Coverage 03/17/2014A state appellate court has ruled that California water officials cannot go onto private property for soil testing and other studies related to construction of two massive tunnels that would siphon water from the Sacramento River. Nancy Vogel of the ...
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Appeals court upholds slugger Bonds' conviction
Trial Coverage 09/18/2013A federal appeals court on Friday upheld former Giants slugger Barry Bonds' obstruction-of-justice conviction stemming from rambling testimony he gave during a 2003 appearance before a grand jury investigating elite athletes' use of performance-enhan...