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Amidst the UK’s raging culture war and increasingly polarised debate about immigration, claims about “sharia law” are a permanent feature.

Ewa Sokola has filed a defamation lawsuit against her sister Kaja Sokola, alleging that false public statements linked to Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial damaged her reputation and medical career.

Under pressure, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has enlisted the services of Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's lawyer, to challenge President Trump's attempt to remove her from the central bank due to accusations of her involvement in mortgage fraud

A journalist who used to reside in Washington, DC, disclosed on Thursday that she was "brutally attacked and sexually assaulted" in the nation's capital. She also stated that the city's police department would not record the incident on their crime map

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will have to give up his Infowars' assets to pay more than $1 billion he owes to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting -- renewing satirical publication The Onion's effort to buy the platform, according to a recent court ruling.

More than a decade after the Obama administration first tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to buy abortifacient drugs for employees, states are still hounding the nuns in court.

On Wednesday, a federal appeals court decided that President Trump is allowed to withhold around $2 billion in foreign aid, reversing a previous lower court's decision that had prevented the administration from reducing payments made by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

The 'Crypto King' accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian man in a swanky Manhattan townhouse was only bailed out of jail when his parents put a house and their savings on the line as collateral — despite their son reportedly having amassed a fortune.The judge releasing John Woeltz, 37, said to be worth $100m, stipulated he wasn't allowed to pay his bail with cryptocurrency.That led to his father, Matthew Van Woeltz, putting his own home on the line and his mother Joan agreeing to cough up $1 million, should their son fail to meet the terms of his bond, according to court documents seen by The Post.

For the first time in 70 years, “the United States opened a rare earth mine,” reports RealClearInvestigation’s James Varney.

Sean "Diddy" Combs will likely beg to avoid prison altogether to instead serve whatever sentence he gets at the lavish $48.5 million private-island mansion where he had many of his infamous “freak-offs."

Australian woman, Erin Patterson, who murdered three of her in-laws with a meal of toxic mushrooms also allegedly tried to murder her husband, Simon Patterson, using poisoned pasta, a chicken curry and a sandwich wrap, evidence showed on Friday after a judge allowed its disclosure.

On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced the mastermind behind a widespread food fraud scheme in Minnesota that occurred during the pandemic to 28 years in prison

A state appellate court has allowed lawyers representing individuals who claim they were sexually assaulted in steam rooms at Equinox gyms to seek out and reach potential witnesses

In April, 35-year-old Harriet Haynes filed a lawsuit against the English Blackball Pool Federation (EBPF) following their decision to bar transgender women, including herself, from participating in women's county tournaments

President Trump on Tuesday called on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to "take action" and eliminate a "ridiculous tradition" that lets senators block judicial nominees for courts within their own states

On Monday, a federal judge appointed by Obama prevented the Trump administration from ending Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, a significant part of his One Big Beautiful Bill Act

On Friday, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration contesting the sanctuary city policies of Chicago and the state of Illinois, determining that these policies are safeguarded by the 10th Amendment

A split panel in the federal appeals court decided on Wednesday that President Trump's executive order to ban birthright citizenship cannot be implemented, affirming a previous court's decision to block the order

A New York appellate court is ordering a new trial for a convicted killer, Donald White, because — wait for it — his buddy was kicked out of the courtroom for napping.

A self-proclaimed Long Island psychic was charged with grand larceny and fortunetelling — a little-used misdemeanor in New York — after allegedly scamming a senior citizen out of tens of thousands of dollars, officials said.

An enraged Sen. Cory Booker shouted over Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley for about seven minutes straight and joined Democrats in storming out of a hearing to advance President Trump's judicial nomination of Emil Bove

The family of Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell claims the convicted accomplice “did not receive a fair trial” and remains in prison due to “a promise the US government made and broke.”

President Trump’s would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, begged a federal judge to allow him to “freeze to death In Siberia” as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia  in a bizarre letter last month where he also offered himself up to Hamas and other US adversaries.

A social media influencer, who was sentenced to seven months in prison two years prior for sharing anti-Hillary Clinton memes that federal prosecutors labeled as election interference aimed at misleading voters, had his conviction reversed

A South Korean court early Thursday sanctioned the re-arrest of ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol on accusations tied to his short-lived declaration of martial law in December