Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia has opened criminal proceedings against Oleg Kuvaev, creator of the animated series Masyanya, for "public actions against ...

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President-elect Donald Trump applied for a stay of criminal proceedings to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday for his hush-money case pending his interlocutory appeal for presidential immunity. The ...

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The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

AUSTIN – As we move close to the historic impeachment trial of the state’s top prosecutor, a major question for those involved is whether the proceedings Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces are ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The retirement of long-serving Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay has prompted a kind of musical chairs of duties among the remaining judges in the 4th Judicial District. Lindsay has been ...

The Belgian presidency of the Council and European Parliament negotiators concluded a provisional deal on a proposed EU law related to the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters. The law puts in ...