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Photos of a child’s bloody body, a black knife holder and other crime scene evidence are taking center stage at the hate crime and murder trial for an Illinois landlord accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy

A Montana man has been sentenced to four years of probation for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

President Donald Trump’s effort to suspend the system for resettling refugees in the U.S. is on hold after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it

Opening statements are scheduled to begin in the trial of a Texas pipeline company's lawsuit against Greenpeace

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility

A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring and increased transparency in the wake of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California

A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate “race-based” practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money

Another $500 million would be spent toward Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in North Carolina in legislation approved unanimously by the state House

Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

Idaho prosecutors say a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students shouldn’t be allowed to offer an alibi defense unless he takes the stand himself during the murder trial later this year