Legal

A Texas Inmate was Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Attempting to Sex Traffick a Female Victim from Utah

ST. GEORGE, Utah – A Houston, Texas, inmate was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment today and a lifetime of supervised release after he attempted through threats and intimidation from behind bars to...

2026-08-18

Appeals Court Sides With Providers In No Surprises Act Pay Dispute

A court ruling struck down key parts of how regulators calculate the No Surprises Act's qualifying payment amount, siding with the Texas Medical Association's argument that the formula has historicall...

2026-08-18

Trump’s Ballroom Blitz

Sarah and David are back! Sarah calls from her new home in Houston – measuring cups still missing, first day at a new school in the books. David, fresh off his own 30th-anniversary trip to Yosemite (a...

2026-08-18

Penn State Rocked by Massive Fraternity-Based Cocaine Ring Bust

“Criminal activity, including hazing, such as this has no place at our institution, and we will cooperate with law enforcement in any way we can.” Authorities in Pennsylvania have arrested more than t...

2026-08-18

Sidebar: The data center gold rush

Data: the lifeblood of our digital age, and the sprawling facilities that house the guts of the internet. In the past few years, data center construction has exploded across the country, widening the ...

2026-08-18

Two Arrested in Years-Long Scheme to Smuggle Protected Reptiles Across U.S.-Mexico Border

SAN DIEGO–Georgina Bribiesca Chavez of Tijuana, Mexico, appeared in federal court today to face a wildlife trafficking charge after she allegedly participated in a years-long scheme to smuggle exotic ...

2026-08-18

Morning Docket: 08.18.26

* Law firms secure big revenue gains in the first half of 2026... and yet those raises are still mostly on hold. [Law360]* Penn State frat caught running massive cocaine ring. The school is proud of i...

2026-08-18

The chief justice should share much of his power

This is the fourth piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better. *** Under longstanding tradition, the chief justice presides over oral argument and the justices’ private c...

2026-08-18

Indiana U. Releases Professor Following Complaint She Linked MAGA to ‘White Supremacy’

“After careful review of your work by all appropriate groups at Indiana University, a recommendation has been made that you not be reappointed” A leftist in higher education was punished for hateful r...

2026-08-18

Costa Rican National Sentenced to 20 Years for Leading a Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Fentanyl following Homeland Security Task Force Investigation

2026-08-18

What if one vote had changed in the birthright citizenship case?

In Trump v. Barbara , the Supreme Court held that executive order 14160 , which attempted to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and those temporarily residing in th...

2026-08-18

Indonesia Hit by Nearly 1000 Aftershocks Following Major 7.7 Earthquake

Meanwhile, Colombian president asks President Trump to suspend tariffs after recent earthquake. A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s eastern region this weekend, killing at least 53 ...

2026-08-18

Gaston County “Fence” Sentenced for Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property

2026-08-18

Fountain Hills Man Pleads Guilty to Investment Fraud Schemes, Agrees to Pay Restitution to Victims

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Jeremie Andrew Sowerby, 48, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, pleaded guilty earlier this month to Wire Fraud and admitted to scamming hundreds of victims through a series of investment fra...

2026-08-18

Repeat offender sentenced to eleven years in prison for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm

Seattle – A repeat offender, who continued to deal methamphetamine and cocaine in Thurston County even as he was on supervised release from a prior conviction, was sentenced today in U.S. District Cou...

2026-08-18

Fairfield County man sentenced to prison for receiving child pornography

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Lancaster man was sentenced in federal court today to 80 months in prison for receiving child pornography.

2026-08-18

ID Logistics US, Inc. Agrees To Pay $2.36 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to a Paycheck Protection Program Loan

2026-08-18

D.C. Woman Found Guilty in Fatal Stabbing

Vanessa Bonaparte, 34, of Washington D.C., was found guilty yesterday in D.C. Superior Court on charges related to the fatal stabbing of Dwayne Boyd on June 22, 2024, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine F...

2026-08-18

Tri-Cities Man Found Guilty of Large-Scale Fentanyl Trafficking

2026-08-18

Trump v. Carroll and the Ten Commandments

Updated on Aug. 18 at 5:42 p.m. This month marks 40 years since the Senate considered Antonin Scalia’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Look to the Morning Reads section for a column from Christopher ...

2026-08-18