Prince Harry wins court victory against tabloids in phone hacking case
Prince Harry and 100 other celebrities sued UK tabloids for allegedly hacking their phones to get scoops in the 1990s & early 2000s.
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Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay $148 million to former Georgia election workers
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.
A look into the New York Times' investigation of Roe v. Wade being overturned
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.
A Senate deal on border security faces uncertainty from the House
As Senate negotiators work on a deal to address border security, House progressives and conservatives reject the effort for different reasons.
Giuliani is ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers he defamed
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.
How we found criminal trials where Ohio prosecutors acted improperly
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.
To fight so-called book bans, some states are threatening to withhold funding
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.
Recent cases raise questions about the ethics of using AI in the legal system
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.
No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old who called for help, officials say
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.
Tribes celebrate historic deal with White House that could save Pacific Northwest salmon
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.