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Avoid These Mistakes When Divvying Up Assets in a Divorce
If you are considering divorce or are already in the midst of it, be aware that division-of-asset mistakes can result in unanticipated taxes.
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Jury Finds Newlyweds Defamed Dallas Wedding Photographer Andrea Polito Over Album Cover Fee
A North Texas wedding photographer has been awarded a $1.08 million defamation verdict against a married couple whom the jury found posted false statements in a social media campaign after being unhappy about a surprise fee.
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Trump Policy Puts Migrants in Danger in Mexico, Advocates Say
Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting released from the El Paso Processing Center after weeks in detention. But that’s just a sliver of the story.
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Lawyer: Impeachment-Related Ruling on McGahn Doesn't Extend to Bolton, Deputy
John Bolton’s attorney suggested Tuesday that a court order directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress has no bearing on whether his client and another ex-national security official he represents will testify. The statement from attorney Charles Cooper aimed to blunt public speculation that the judge’s order in the McGahn case could influence the actions of...
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Black Virginia Voters Feel Betrayed, Left in No-Win Scenario
Eva Siakam’s choice to campaign for Ralph Northam in 2017 was a simple one: He was a Democrat and endorsed by Barack Obama, America’s first black president.
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Maryland Appeals Court Upholds Conviction of ‘Serial' Subject Adnan Syed
Maryland’s highest court ruled Friday that Adnan Syed, the subject of the world-famous “Serial” podcast, will not be granted a new trial after he was convicted of killing his high school classmate Hae Min Lee 20 years ago.
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Man Charged With Shooting DC Teacher in Face, Killing Second Man
In another stunning shooting of an innocent bystander in D.C., an elementary school teacher was shot in the face Monday as he drove home on New York Avenue.
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Church Envoy Begs McCarrick to Repent as Abuse Verdict Nears
The retired Vatican diplomat who accused Pope Francis of turning a blind eye to the alleged sexual misconduct of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is begging the American to publicly repent for his crimes for the good of the Catholic Church.
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From Prison, Convicted Sex Offender Bill Cosby Says He's a Political Prisoner for ‘Trying to Humanize All Races'
In his first message from prison, the 81-year-old told NBC10’s Erin Coleman that he is a victim of “entrapment” carried out by a “low-life District Attorney” and “corrupt Judge.”
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Supreme Court Rejects Call for New Trial in ‘Serial' Podcast Case
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Maryland man’s bid for a new trial based on information uncovered by the hit podcast “Serial.”
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US Citizen Jailed in Lebanon as Country Deals With Crisis
In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...
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Geena Davis Says She Never Legally Married Plastic Surgeon Filing for Divorce
Geena Davis testified Thursday that she does not believe she was ever legally married to a plastic surgeon who filed for divorce from her in 2018 even though a video of a 2001 ceremony shows her vowing to love him as her husband until death.
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Victims' Lawyer: Prince Andrew Must Talk to US Prosecutors
Lawyers for the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein say Prince Andrew should speak to U.S. investigators immediately, after the senior British royal withdrew from public duties over what he called his “ill-judged association” with the convicted pedophile. U.S. attorney Gloria Allred said Andrew should contact American authorities “without conditions and without delay.” Andrew announced Wednesday that he was pulling...
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Trial of Bay Area Teens for Rome Cop Slaying to Start in February
The lawyer of one of the two American teenagers jailed in Rome over the slaying of a Carabinieri police officer says their trial has been fast-tracked and will begin early next year.
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Ukraine Asked About Aid on Day of Trump Call: Official
In a blow to GOP defenses of President Donald Trump, a Defense Department official said Wednesday the Ukrainian government asked “what was going on” with U.S. military aid as early as July 25 — the very day that Trump asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Democrats. Testifying in an evening hearing, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper told lawmakers her...
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Cooper Sheds New Light on Ukrainian Assistance Timeline
Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper testified on Wednesday and revealed a new timeline for when Ukrainian officials began to inquire about previously allocated military aid being withheld.
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Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Faces Wire Fraud, Tax Charges
Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has been indicted in connection with a scandal over sales of her self-published children’s books, federal law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
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Kim Kardashian Recalls Rodney Reed's ‘Emotional' Response to Execution Delay
When Death Row inmate Rodney Reed learned he wouldn’t have to die this week, Kim Kardashian was in the room with him. The 51-year-old was originally scheduled to be executed this Wednesday for the 1996 assault, rape and strangling of a 19-year-old woman, Stacey Stiles. Attorneys with the Innocence Project have said there is evidence that exonerates him. On Friday,...
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Justice Department Closes Investigation Into US Park Police Fatal Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar
The Justice Department won’t pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against U.S. Park Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar two years ago.
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Jeffrey Epstein's Estate Offers Compensation Fund for His Sex Abuse Victims
The executors of the estate of the late accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday asked a judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands for approval to set up a voluntary compensation program for victims of the wealthy financier. The proposed program would be lead by claims experts including Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw the U.S. government’s compensation fund for victims...