Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A Department of Correction captain and two guards were suspended for ...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Tuesday (Jan 22) vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing a 10 per cent punitive duty on Chinese imports because fentanyl is ...

“I have not had the experience of working anywhere else where the drug charges are so non-standard, and so punitive,” said Bruce Ringstrom, a Moorhead defense attorney who has represented clients in ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports ...

Many of these private schools are known as “segregation academies” because they opened for white children while the federal courts were forcing districts across the South to desegregate.

After a Florida jury found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran who helped rescue endangered Afghans, the network reached a settlement on Friday to avoid a punishing order that it pay punitive ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – A jury found that CNN committed defamation against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young and is responsible for punitive damages on Friday after more than eight hours of deliberation.

CNN has reached a confidential settlement for punitive damages with Zachary Young, a military veteran who’d sued the news network over its report that he ran a black market operation that preyed on ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – A jury found that CNN committed defamation against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young and is responsible for punitive damages on Friday after more than eight hours of deliberation.

Abolishing segregation in public schools sent shockwaves through our education system. But in response to that decision, the South saw an increase in the founding of mostly white private schools ...