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By LISA MASCARO, MARK SHERMAN and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returns to Capitol Hill for a More
October 14, 2020
By LISA MASCARO, MARK SHERMAN and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats’ More
October 13, 2020
By MARK SHERMAN, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett presented her approach to More
October 12, 2020
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A scant two weeks after her nomination, Judge Amy Coney Barrett goes before a Senate committee that's More
October 12, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin as a divided Senate charges ahead on President Donald More
October 12, 2020
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court has expressed unease with some landmark More
October 9, 2020
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court might prefer to avoid politics, but politics has a way of finding the court. More
October 9, 2020
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony at Arlington More
September 30, 2020
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has chosen Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader More
September 28, 2020
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department has used facial-recognition software nearly 30,000 times since 2009 even while denying at times that More
September 22, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer was charged on Monday with being an “intelligence asset” for the Chinese government who agreed... More
September 22, 2020
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, LISA MASCARO and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he expects to announce his pick More
September 21, 2020
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s More
September 18, 2020
By ROBIN McDOWELL The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hiding evidence that could prove innocence. Planting drugs or guns at a crime scene. Forcing More
September 16, 2020
Riots broke out in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin after the shooting of Jacob Blake. (Episode 55) More
September 3, 2020
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped More
August 11, 2020
The three men accused of murdering jogger Ahmaud Arbery returned to court for a preliminary hearing and Court TV was there to cover it. (Episode... More
July 23, 2020
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis' top prosecutor told The Associated Press on Monday that she is charging a white... More
July 21, 2020
By JEFF AMY and BEN NADLER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta's mayor and city council to block the... More
July 16, 2020
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights groups called for Georgia lawmakers to repeal the state's 19th-century citizen's arrest law More
July 16, 2020
The death of George Floyd, and subsequent criminal charges brought against the Minneapolis police officers involved, caused reverberations around the world, making it one of... More
July 16, 2020
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd's family filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the four police More
July 15, 2020
By DAVID CRARY and ELANA SCHOR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Conservative-leaning faith leaders and their allies, outspoken in recent years about what More
July 10, 2020
By BEN NADLER and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's governor on Monday declared a state of emergency and authorized the activation of More
July 8, 2020
By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man over... More
July 7, 2020
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal More
July 6, 2020
The death of George Floyd has ignited a movement – one that has made people look closer at the relationship between law enforcement and the... More
July 2, 2020
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was freed from prison Wednesday after a county prosecutor declined to retry his case, punctuating years of... More
July 1, 2020
By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When a participant at a rally in Austin to protest police brutality threw... More
June 29, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging officials More
June 4, 2020
