Law

Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay $148 million to former Georgia election workers

6:29pm December 15, 2023

Former Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay a staggering $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he spread lies about following the 2020 election.

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A look into the New York Times' investigation of Roe v. Wade being overturned

6:04pm December 15, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to New York Times' investigative reporter Jodi Kantor about her investigation with Adam Liptak into the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v Wade.

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A Senate deal on border security faces uncertainty from the House

6:04pm December 15, 2023

As Senate negotiators work on a deal to address border security, House progressives and conservatives reject the effort for different reasons.

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Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for a trial to determine how much he will have to pay two 2020 Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud.

Politics & Government

Giuliani is ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers he defamed

5:48pm December 15, 2023

by Miles Parks

The former mayor of New York helped Donald Trump try to overturn his 2020 election loss, and in the process spread lies about election workers in battleground states.

National

How we found criminal trials where Ohio prosecutors acted improperly

2:15pm December 15, 2023

In a two-year investigation, we built a dataset of some 450 claims of prosecutorial misconduct by analyzing thousands of pages of appellate decisions from 2018 to 2021. Detailed here is how we did it.

A display of some books that have been challenged around the country is seen at the Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library in the Bronx, New York City, Oct. 7.

To fight so-called book bans, some states are threatening to withhold funding

9:54am December 15, 2023

by Andrew Limbong

Illinois made a splashy announcement with their new law intended to protect libraries from book challenges by withholding funding. Other states are closely watching to see if they will follow along.

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Recent cases raise questions about the ethics of using AI in the legal system

5:07am December 15, 2023

by Steve Inskeep

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the director of the Private Law Clinic at Yale University, Andrew Miller, about the ethics of using artificial intelligence in the legal system.

A grand jury in Mississippi found that there was no criminal conduct on behalf of the officer involved in the shooting of 11-year-old Aderrien Murry. Here, this December 2022 photo provided by Nakala Murry of Indianola, Miss., shows Aderrien Murry, who was shot and wounded by an Indianola Police Department officer on May 20, 2023, during a domestic disturbance call at the home of Murry's family.

No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old who called for help, officials say

8:34pm December 14, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

In a statement, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch says her office completed its review into the May incident and presented it to a grand jury — who handed up the decision.

FILE - This Oct. 24, 2006 file photo shows file photo shows the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River in Pasco, Wash. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston, File)

Tribes celebrate historic deal with White House that could save Pacific Northwest salmon

6:22pm December 14, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

The White House has reached what it says is an historic agreement over the restoration of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a deal that could end for now a decades long legal battle with tribes.

An American bald eagle flies over Mill Pond while carrying a newly caught fish on July 21, 2018 in Centerport, New York.

National

Two men charged with killing approximately 3,600 birds, including bald eagles

4:58pm December 14, 2023

by Diba Mohtasham

One of the men charged bragged about going on a "killing spree" to to get feathers from eagles for future sales.