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Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers won a courtroom bid Thursday to block a Nevada woman accusing the soccer superstar of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009 from digging into the validity of their 2010 confidentiality agreement and $375,000 hush-money payment. U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts told Kathryn Mayorga’s attorney that it will be up to a higher-level judge to decide if...

A federal judge has held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court for violating an order to stop collecting loans from thousands of former for-profit college students. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim issued the ruling Thursday in San Francisco. She also fined the Education Department $100,000. Kim previously ordered DeVos to stop collecting federal loans from former Corinthian Colleges...

Political activist and high-profile Democratic donor Ed Buck pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from the overdose deaths of two men inside his West Hollywood apartment.

A federal judge has approved an unusual court transportation plan for a Virginia man who weighs more than 900 pounds.

Two new photos obtained from a police source in Houston may shed new details into the disappearance of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, a young girl missing since May 3. A photo obtained Monday by KRPC-TV in Houston may show the last time Maleah was seen before her disapperance. According to a KPRC-TV police source, the surveillance photo shows the child with...

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s success this week in getting his child-endangerment conviction overturned capped a seven-year fight to save his reputation and stay out of jail, a period during which he has been richly compensated by the university he once ran.

A federal judge has thrown out former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s child-endangerment conviction, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to jail.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I questions Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos about cuts to Special Olympics funding proposed President Donald Trump’s latest budget plan.

The protester who climbed the Statue of Liberty was sentenced to five years probation with no jail time.

The federal judge sentencing the protester who climbed the Statue of Liberty last year has an unusual request — he wants to climb it too.

A judge threw out involuntary manslaughter and many of the other most serious remaining charges Wednesday against 11 of the former Penn State fraternity members arrested in a pledge’s hazing-related death last year, the second major blow to the prosecution’s case.

A federal judge wants to take some time before deciding whether a Georgia woman charged with leaking U.S. secrets should remain jailed until her trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian K. Epps heard arguments Friday in Augusta from prosecutors and defense attorneys for 25-year-old Reality Winner. She is making her second request to be released on bail since her arrest in...

A Florida man facing federal explosives charges was granted a request for bond after a judge said he did not pose a threat to his community, NBC News reported. Police said Brandon Russell, 22, was keeping materials used to make bombs at his Florida apartment, where they also found white supremacist propaganda and a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber...

Employers can legally pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in the workers’ previous salaries, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling that said pay differences based exclusively on prior salaries were discriminatory under the federal Equal Pay Act. That’s because women’s...

A 75-year-old military veteran was acquitted Tuesday of illegally hanging an American flag on the fence of a Veterans Affairs facility in West Los Angeles without permission.

Philadelphia’s top prosecutor has three days to find a new lawyer in a federal bribery case against him although it’s unclear whether he has the money to pay anyone.

A week after he was indicted for bribery and extortion, the lawyer representing Seth Williams is asking to step down from the case, saying that the former D.A. cannot afford to pay him. NBC10’s Mitch Blacher has the details.

A federal judge in Orlando on Friday revoked bond for the wife of the gunman responsible for the Pulse nightclub massacre, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron reversed the decision of a magistrate judge in Oakland, California, last week to release Noor Salman on $500,000 bond and ordered her jailed pending trial on...

An assistant U.S. attorney in St. Louis says the man accused of making threats against at least eight Jewish institutions is responsible for a “hateful crime.” Juan Thompson of St. Louis was in court Wednesday seeking release on bond. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Noce did not immediately issue a ruling.

A judge has granted prosecutors’ request to keep the wife of the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooter in jail, at least for now. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron in Orlando issued the order late Thursday....
The order states Noor Salman should stay in jail while the judge decides if she should remain in custody until her trial. She is charged with helping...