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A Massachusetts judge charged with helping an immigrant escape a federal agent waiting to arrest him has rejected a plea deal offered by federal prosecutors.

A judge has ruled that Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements when he visits the U.K.

Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter was sentenced to two years in prison for first- and second-degree manslaughter in the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Potter says that she mistook her gun for her taser and shot Wright at a traffic stop in April last year.

A federal judge is deciding whether to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September and sent women racing hundreds of miles to get care outside the state

A Maryland Eastern Shore judge who was about to be arrested at his home on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child was found dead Friday, officials said.