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Volunteers paint murals on boarded-up businesses in Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. The event was meant to gather donations for Kenosha residents and help businesses hurt by violent protests that sparked fires across the city following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

No charges against Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake

January 5, 2021 at 2:43 p.m.

Officer Rusten Sheskey鈥檚 shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, captured on bystander video, turned the nation鈥檚 spotlight on Wisconsin during a summer marked by protests over police brutality and...

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Lawyers: Second U.S. inmate scheduled to be executed has COVID-19

December 18, 2020 at 1:58 p.m.

A second federal inmate scheduled to be put to death next month in a series of executions by the Trump administration has tested positive for COVID-19, his lawyers said Friday.

Trump administration plans second execution in as many days

December 11, 2020 at 10:31 a.m.

The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks...

Trump ratchets up pace of executions in final days of presidency

December 7, 2020 at 9:24 a.m.

As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday...

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Amy Coney Barrett, likely Supreme Court pick, is Scalia鈥檚 heir

September 26, 2020 at 1:31 p.m.

Though Amy Coney Barrett is the expected replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia.

High court front-runner hailed by right, feared by left

September 22, 2020 at 5:01 p.m.

A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative...

U.S. Supreme Court front-runner hailed by right, feared by left

September 21, 2020 at 10:46 a.m.

A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative...

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Prosecutors seek right mix of charges in George Floyd case

June 6, 2020 at 8:34 a.m.

As damning as video evidence in the George Floyd case appears to be, prosecutors know they must bring the right charges underpinned by sound legal logic if they hope to...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich released from Colorado prison after Trump commutes sentence

February 18, 2020 at 6:47 p.m.

Trump on Tuesday commuted what he called the "ridiculous" 14-year prison sentence handed out to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for political corruption.

Special prosecutor named to look into Jussie Smollett case

August 23, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

Smollett, who is black and gay, maintains that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in January.

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