Law

O.J. Simpson with his mother, Eunice, and father, Jimmy Lee, on the field at Rich Stadium for his induction into the Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame in 1980.

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'O.J.: Made In America' Is About America, Not O.J.

12:14pm June 09, 2016

by Linda Holmes

The five-part, 7 1/2-hour documentary series O.J.: Made in America presents an expansive, meticulously constructed examination of the O.J. Simpson trial as an enduring, vexing cultural milestone.

Baltimore police Officer Caesar Goodson (right) walks past Deputy Donald Rheubottom before entering a courthouse in Baltimore in January. Goodson, one of six Baltimore police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray, goes on trial sta

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Murder Trial Begins For Officer Who Drove Van In Freddie Gray Case

12:06pm June 09, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Officer Caesar Goodson, who faces the most serious charge related to Freddie Gray's death in 2015, heads to court in Baltimore on Thursday. Two trials of other officers ended without convictions.

Ex-CIA Spy Says She Is To Be Extradited To Italy To Serve Prison Sentence

5:04am June 09, 2016

Mary Louise Kelly talks to former CIA agent Sabrina de Sousa, who was convicted in absentia of having a role in the extraordinary rendition of an Islamist from a Milan street in 2003.

Texas Governor Linked To Trump University Fraud Case

5:06pm June 08, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Associated Press reporter Michael Biesecker about his reporting on Trump University.

Alejandra Cartagena's photograph Fragmented Cities, Juarez #2 was the inspiration for Freeman's Cartagena vanilla ice cream and sorbet trio.

Copycake: When Food Art Ideas Get Swiped

2:29pm June 08, 2016

by Heidi Glenn

Caitlin Freeman made a name for herself selling modern art-inspired pastries at the SFMOMA. The museum's cafe just reopened with a new caterer — whose desserts look suspiciously familiar.

Three Rikers corrections officers — Alfred Rivera (left), Tobias Parker (center) and Jeffrey Richard (second from right) — arrive at court in March. Rivera and Parker were among the five officers convicted, while Richard was found not guilty.

National

5 N.Y. Corrections Officers Convicted Of Assaulting Rikers Inmate

1:39pm June 08, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

A New York jury has found five corrections officers guilty of assaulting an inmate in 2012 at the Rikers Island jail complex. The beating left Jahmal Lightfoot with fractured eye sockets.

Landowners And Federal Officials Dispute Red River's Boundaries

5:27am June 08, 2016

by Wade Goodwyn

The federal government is changing the border between Texas and Oklahoma. What's going on? That's what landowners along the Red River want to know.

Donald Trump has landed in hot water again, saying that a judge in a fraud case against Trump University is biased against him because he is "Mexican."

Who Is Judge Gonzalo Curiel, The Man Trump Attacked For His Mexican Ancestry?

9:23pm June 07, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

The likely GOP standard-bearer has accused the judge of bias in the Trump University fraud case because of his Mexican ancestry. But he's widely respected and took on a drug cartel under death threat.

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Who Is Gonzalo Curiel? The Federal Judge Attacked By Donald Trump

4:41pm June 07, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

Controversy is roiling the highest ranks of the Republican Party over criticism of a federal judge by the party's presumptive White House nominee, Donald Trump. The judge in question, Gonzalo Curiel, is a drug-cartel busting former prosecutor first named to a state court by a Republican governor, then to the federal bench by President Obama.

Revisiting The Tenure Of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, The 'Jewish Jefferson'

1:32pm June 07, 2016

One hundred years ago, Brandeis became the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court. Author Jeffrey Rosen says that Brandeis was also the most far-seeing progressive justice of the 20th century.

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