Law

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on April 26, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

President Biden commutes the sentences of 31 people convicted of drug crimes

1:11am April 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The move came as the White House announced policy actions across 20 agencies meant to improve the criminal justice system, which disproportionately affects Black and other non-white communities.

A few Republicans spoke up and stopped abortion bans in their states

4:30pm April 28, 2023

NPR's Melissa Block talks with South Carolina Sen. Sandy Senn, who was one of six Republican state senators who helped block a near-total abortion ban from advancing.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Sept. 29, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

National

Federal prisons want inmates to pay victims, before making phone calls or buying shoes

4:22pm April 28, 2023

by Tilda Wilson

A proposed Bureau of Prisons rule would put the majority of money sent to an incarcerated person from outside toward restitution or other fines.

Disney flexes its legal muscle in latest feud with DeSantis

4:22pm April 28, 2023

NPR's Melissa Block talks with New York Times reporter Brooks Barnes about the feud between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis and the power that Disney holds in the state of Florida.

Demonstrators gather outside the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., with a "FLUSH GERRYMANDER" inflatable on the day the state's highest court held a rehearing for the redistricting case known nationally as Moore v. Harper.

Politics & Government

A North Carolina court overrules itself in a case tied to a disputed election theory

12:55pm April 28, 2023

by Hansi Lo Wang

North Carolina's highest court has overruled one of its own rulings, throwing into question if the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision on the major elections case known as Moore v. Harper.

National

Trump's lawyers conclude cross examination of E. Jean Carroll in civil rape case trial

7:47am April 28, 2023

by Andrea Bernstein

Former columnist E. Jean Carroll continued her testimony on Thursday in her lawsuit sexual assault case trial against Donald Trump. Carroll sued Trump after an alleged rape in the mid-1990s.

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Morning news brief

5:46am April 28, 2023

White House lays out plans to replace pandemic border restrictions. Donald Trump's lawyer spent Thursday cross-examining E. Jean Carroll. After Tucker Carlson's firing, viewers have deserted Fox.

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Michael Schumacher, pictured at a press conference in Brazil in 2006, hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013.

World News

A magazine touted Michael Schumacher's first interview in years. It was actually AI

5:07am April 28, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

F1 champion Michael Schumacher hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013. Die Aktuelle fired its editor over the AI-generated piece, and Schumacher's family plans to sue.

Politics & Government

Trump attorney asks E. Jean Carroll why it took decades to accuse his client of rape

5:07am April 28, 2023

Donald Trump's attorney spent Thursday cross-examining E. Jean Carroll. She is a former columnist who sued Trump, claiming he raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

The Justice Department motion for continued pretrial detention of Jack Teixeira is photographed Thursday.

Prosecutors want suspected leaker of Pentagon documents detained until his trial

8:02pm April 27, 2023

by Washington Desk

Federal prosecutors urged that the defendant, Jack Teixeira, remain in jail pending trial. Teixeira, an Air National guardsman, is accused of illegally sharing Pentagon secrets on a gaming site.