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The pickup driver whose collision with a group of bikers last year left seven motorcyclists dead made some statements to police that should not be part of his upcoming trial, his lawyers told a judge in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Attorneys for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy said their client indicated during the police interview last June that he was not able to…

A federal judge on Sunday postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned the popular video sharing app TikTok from U.S. smartphone app stores around midnight.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, criticized Facebook’s decision to remove a viral video of doctors claiming hydroxychloroquine cures COVID-19. CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the decision saying that “some of the data suggests it might be harmful to people, we think we should take that down. That could cause imminent risk of harm.”

House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D, R.I., questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about his company’s treatment of Yelp. “The choice Google gave Yelp was, ’Let us steal your content or effectively disappear from the web,’” said Cicilline. “Mr. Pichai, isn’t that anti-competitive?”

Scientists from the University of Delaware create a test for ducks to discover the range of their hearing underwater. The information could be used to save ducks caught up in commercial fishing nets.

A Georgia judge has scheduled a court hearing next week for three men charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

A hearing was held Wednesday in front of the Boston City Council to discuss the conditions faced by front line workers, including health care and grocery store workers.

A virtual hearing was scheduled Tuesday to consider the death penalty for Louis Coleman III, the man accused of kidnapping and killing a 23-year-old mother from a Boston nightclub last year.

A hearing was held Thursday on the proposed $43 million Merrimack Valley gas settlement and how the money gets divided. The judge at Salem Superior Court did not make a final decision but heard from attorneys and community members impacted by the Sept. 13, 2018 explosions in Andover, North Andover and Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Parents in the college admissions cheating scandal, including actress Lori Loughlin, could soon be heading to trial. Attorneys for some parents were back in federal court in Boston Friday for an interim status conference hearing.

Attorneys for actress Lori Loughlin her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were set to appear in Boston federal court Friday on their charges stemming from indictments in the college admissions scandal.

A hearing will be held for the man who is currently on trial for allegedly killing a Massachusetts State Trooper in a car crash.

Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, who serves on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, will question Robert Mueller on Wednesday. Mueller, the former special counsel, authored the report on how the Russian government worked to secretly influence the 2016 presidential election. Mueller will testify before both the House Intelligence Committee and House Judiciary Committee, in separate hearings.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday called climate change “a huge issue” but not the “greatest crisis,” drawing fire from Democrats at his confirmation hearing over the regulatory rollbacks he’s made in six months as the agency’s acting administrator. Republicans on the GOP-majority Senate Environment and Public Works Committee mostly had praise for Andrew...

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., addressed the sexual misconduct allegations surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday. “These are human beings, with families and children,” he said of Kavanaugh and his most prominent accuser, and that not much has been learned since the Anita Hill hearings in 1991.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh faced the first round of questions during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings Wednesday. Asked if he believed a sitting president was required to respond to a subpoena, Kavanaugh said he wouldn’t answer hypothetical questions.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh said in opening remarks at his confirmation hearing Tuesday that the “Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.” He vowed to always keep an open mind if he joins the Supreme Court.

Democratic senators interrupted the start of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday, arguing that they were not given pertinent documents and that some were kept hidden.

The first trial of Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, is underway in Virginia. Manafort is the first person to go on trial as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. This trial will determine whether Manafort tried to hide millions of dollars earned as a consultant for the Ukrainian government.

A New Hampshire judge will decide whether a Merrimack woman can keep her identity private after winning a $559.7 million jackpot.