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A Colorado jury on Friday convicted two paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black pedestrian, who was given a lethal dose of ketamine in 2019 after a confrontation with police. Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper were found guilty by a jury of criminally negligent homicide. Cichuniec was also …

WASHINGTON — Steering clear of a political firestorm for now, the Supreme Court said Friday it would not immediately decide the key question of whether Donald Trump has broad immunity for actions he took as president challenging his 2020 election loss. The court denied without comment special counsel Jack Smith’s …

The federal agency tasked with protecting the public from hazardous products often knows about dangerous and deadly items for years before it takes action. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees about 15,000 types of products, is constrained by a system that is slow to identify deaths and limits the …

A Norwegian cruise ship lost the ability to navigate after a rogue wave crashed into it Thursday, the cruise company HX said. The MS Maud lost power after the wave hit as the ship was sailing toward Tilbury, England, from Florø, Norway, HX, a unit of Norway’s Hurtigruten Group, said …

A former assistant accuses actor Vin Diesel of sexually assaulting her in an Atlanta hotel in 2010, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. Asta Jonasson filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Diesel and one of his production companies, One Race Productions Inc. It also names One …

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the once-respected former New York mayor who represented former President Donald Trump in his ill-fated attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, has filed for bankruptcy after a jury in Washington, D.C., returned an initial $148 million verdict against him last week for …

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown spoke with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday morning, according to a readout of the call, the first high-level conversation between the two militaries in more than a year.  China broke off direct military contacts with U.S. forces in the …

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones. The law signed …

Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss can immediately seek enforcement of their $146 million financial judgment against Rudy Giuliani because there is good reason to assume he will not comply, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. “Giuliani’s failure to ‘satisfy even more modest monetary awards entered earlier in …

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to avoid deciding for now the key issue of whether the former president has broad immunity from actions he took challenging the 2020 presidential elections result. The court filing was in response to special counsel Jack Smith’s request …