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President Barack Obama on Friday will nominate James Comey, a former Justice Department official who helped oversee the legality of national surveillance programs under President George W. Bush, as the next head of the FBI, according to a White House official. If confirmed by the Senate, Comey will replace Robert Mueller as the head of the agency. Mueller has held his post since the week before th...
PHOENIX -- An Arizona judge on Thursday set a July 18 hearing for convicted murderer Jodi Arias to determine whether the former waitress will face a new jury in the death penalty phase of her trial for brutally killing her ex-boyfriend.The sensational trial began in January and Arias, 32, was convicted by a jury last month. The case became a staple for U.S. cable television viewers with its tale o...
Six women were selected Thursday to serve on the Florida jury that will decide if George Zimmerman is guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.The jurors were identified in court only by number on the ninth day of selection. Four alternates – two men and two women – were also chosen.The panel will be sequestered during the trial, which will begin with opening statemen...
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, whose Massachusetts home has been visited twice by police this week after a man’s body was found in an industrial park about a mile away, allegedly shot a friend in the face in February, according to a new lawsuit.According to the suit, Hernandez was driving from Tootsie’s strip club in Miami to Palm Beach on Feb. 13 with a group of people when an ar...
Union members are turning the union "thug" label on its head today, handing out free hugs at the Netroots Nation 2013 conference in San Jose, Calif.After all, a union hug is the only hug with a union bug.
A federal judge in California will hear arguments Thursday on whether thousands of current and former athletes can join a lawsuit that could upend the multi-billion-dollar business of college sports.Ed O’Bannon, a power forward for the UCLA basketball team in the mid-1990s, is among those suing to force the NCAA to share the revenue from its lucrative television and video-game contracts with playe...
