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Courts & Law

Rapper Meek Mill comes out to ring a Liberty Bell replica before the first half in Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series between the Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Court won’t remove judge, tells Meek Mill to appeal ruling

The court said Tuesday Mill's attorneys must go through the regular process of appealing Judge Genece Brinkley's decision, despite their argument she'd been biased.

8 years ago

President Trump speaks before a political rally in West Virginia on Tuesday. He lamented the fate of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He called Manafort's guilty verdict
NPR
Government Accountability
National
Politics

Guilty: 6 takeaways from Manafort’s and Cohen’s big day

In a split-screen whiplash, a regular Tuesday turned into a blockbuster with two top people close to President Trump now facing prison.

8 years ago

This courtroom sketch shows spectators waiting the the courtroom as the jury continues to deliberate in the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of Paul Manafort behind the closed door, at back left, in the courtroom of U.S. District court Judge T.S. Ellis III at federal court in Alexandria, Va., Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)
National

Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of 8 charges

The jury says it's reached a verdict on eight counts but is undecided on the remaining 10.

8 years ago

The planned demonstrations are in response to a riot that resulted in seven deaths in April at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. (Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Policing
Public Health
Social Justice

Inmates plan to hold 2-week strike at prisons across U.S.

Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a two-week strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.

8 years ago

Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building, in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
National
Politics

AP sources: Cohen pleading to bank, campaign finance fraud

Michael Cohen will plead guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud, bank fraud and tax evasion.

8 years ago

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, meets with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in her office, before a private meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
Home & Family
Politics

Kavanaugh tells senator Roe v. Wade is settled law

Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine held a two-hour meeting with Kavanaugh in her office that she called "very informative."

8 years ago

Protesters gathered in the Capitol to call on Wolf for further action. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Activists renew call to shut down Berks immigrant detention center

Pennsylvania DHS already declined to renew the center's federal license, but a federal judge ordered it reinstated.

8 years ago

Parishioners receive communion at Holy Infancy Roman Catholic in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, part of the Allentown Diocese. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

Allentown priest charged with sexual assault of high school student

Updated: 3:59 p.m. Lehigh County prosecutors have charged a catholic priest from the Allentown Diocese with assa ...

8 years ago

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Parishioners worship during Mass at St. Paul Cathedral, the mother church of the Pittsburgh Diocese, last week.
NPR
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

More than 400 have called Pennsylvania’s hotline since clergy sex abuse report

The attorney general's office has been scrambling to keep up, pulling in specially trained investigators from other departments to handle the deluge.

8 years ago

The dome of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. (AP File Photo)
Philadelphia
Religion

2 Philadelphia priests, 1 accused of sex abuse, found unfit for ministry

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has found two priests unsuitable for the ministry

8 years ago

The federal government has shut down Backpage.com,  but it retains its
Criminal Justice
Delaware

Delaware attorney general will seek to dissolve Backpage.com

The company that advertised prostitution has been shut down by the government, but its status as a limited liability company remains in 'good standing' in Delaware.

8 years ago

Listen 2:06
Pope Francis addresses the International Pilgrimage of the Ministrants last month in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.
NPR
Religion

Pope Francis on clergy sex abuse: ‘We showed no care for the little ones’

"The heart-wrenching pain of these victims, which cries out to heaven, was long ignored, kept quiet or silenced."

8 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Pennsylvania

Cash assistance program for Pennsylvania’s poor returns this fall

A form of welfare, the mandated program provided $205 a month to people with no other income.

8 years ago

Camden Police Chief John Thomson asks for the public's help in finding the men wanted in connection with the shooting of two undercover detectives. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
Policing

Police arrest 1 of 3 men charged in ambush shooting of Camden police detectives

Police said Saturday night that they arrested Juan Figueroa without incident in Gloucester City, N.J.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday. A Pennsylvania grand jury says its investigation of clergy sexual abuse identified more than 1,000 child victims in records in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
Matt Rourke/AP
NPR
Religion

The clergy abuse crisis has cost the Catholic church $3 billion

The financial and reputational cost to the Catholic church continues to grow.

8 years ago

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