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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to reject restrictions imposed by a lower court on an abortion pill widely used in the United States to terminate pregnancies. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside as the top court heard its first significant abortion case since the justices overturned the constitutional right to the procedure nearly two years ago. A majority on the conservative-dominated court appeared skeptical during 90 minutes of arguments about the legal standing of the anti-abortion groups and physicians who brought the case against the medication, mi...
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New York (AFP) - The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's trial for allegedly making pre-election hush money payments to a porn star slapped a partial gag order on the former president on Tuesday. Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump not to publicly attack potential witnesses, prosecutors, court staff, their families or prospective jurors. The move came just hours after the Republican presidential candidate lashed out at the judge and his daughter in a series of posts on Truth Social. The 77-year-old Trump described Merchan as a "true and certified Trump hater who suffers from a very serio...
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Washington (AFP) - Facing a total of 88 felony charges in four separate federal and state cases, Donald Trump is employing a simple tactic that has always served him well in the past -- running out the clock. The 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate has deployed an army of highly paid lawyers in New York, Washington, Georgia and Florida to push back his trial dates. The goal is clear: delaying court action beyond the November election when, if he recaptures the presidency, he could potentially have the federal charges against him dropped -- or even pardon himself. So far the strategy ...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump will in three weeks become the first former US president to face a criminal trial, a judge ruled Monday, hours after an appeals court threw the tycoon a lifeline in his bid to stave off an unrelated, half billion dollar civil fraud judgment. New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected demands from Trump's attorneys to further delay his trial on charges of paying hush money to a porn star and ordered jury selection to begin on April 15. The Republican presidential candidate denounced the upcoming trial and other cases brought against him as "election interference" by Demo...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump is up against a fast-approaching deadline to secure a half-billion dollar bond as he appeals his financial fraud case, facing possible bankruptcy or the seizure of his assets if he fails. The former president, who has clinched the Republican nomination for this year's presidential election, is appealing his $355 million penalty, plus interest, after a New York court ruled that he, his sons and his Trump Organization company lied for years about the value of his assets, deceiving banks and insurers. But he must put up a guarantee he'll pay the fine if his legal fi...
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Houston (AFP) - Texas and 15 other US states filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the Biden administration's freeze on new liquefied natural gas exports. Citing the climate crisis, Democratic President Joe Biden in January paused the granting of new permits to ship LNG abroad. "This pause on new LNG approvals sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat of our time," Biden said at the time. The United States only began exporting LNG in 2016 but rapidly became the world's biggest supplier, driven in part by Europe turning away from Russian gas following its invasion of Ukra...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy who took part in the torture of two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday. Brett McAlpin, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. McAlpin, 53, and Joshua Hartfield, 32, the Richland policeman, were the final members of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruc...
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Washington (AFP) - A Georgia man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering his former girlfriend was put to death Wednesday, in the southern US state's first execution in more than four years. Willie Pye, 59, was executed by lethal injection at 11:03 pm (0303 GMT Thursday) at a prison in Jackson, Georgia. The US Supreme Court and State Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a last-minute bid for clemency by Pye. In arguing for clemency, Pye's attorneys said he is intellectually disabled -- with an IQ of 68 -- and experienced a traumatic childhood of "profound poverty, neglect, constant viol...
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Houston (AFP) - Three boys aged 11, 12 and 16 -- dubbed the "Little Rascals" by the FBI -- have been arrested for allegedly robbing a Texas bank. The FBI's Houston office said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the three boys have been charged with "robbery by threat." The boys, who were not identified because they are juveniles, were taken into custody on Tuesday. The FBI had released a photo of the pint-sized suspects following their March 14 bank robbery, adding a caption that read "believe it or not, they just robbed the Wells Fargo." Local TV station KTRK quoted the Harris County Sher...
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Washington (AFP) - A Texas law that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico was again placed on hold late Tuesday, the latest in an ongoing legal back-and-forth over its fate. The administration of Democratic President Joe Biden has strongly opposed the law, known as Senate Bill 4, arguing that the federal government has authority over immigration matters, not individual states. "SB 4 will not only make communities in Texas less safe, it will also burden law enforcement, and sow chaos and confusion at our southern border," W...
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