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Expunging criminal records for simple marijuana possession would be the “fastest, easiest and quickest way” to deal with those convictions, not pardons like President Joe Biden recommended, Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday. After Biden on Thursday announced he would make pardons available for thousands of Americans with federal simple marijuana possession convictions and urged governors to do the same at…

Rashaan Hall of the ACLU of Massachusetts discusses the not guilty verdict in the murder trial against Kyle Rittenhouse.

It’s been a hard fought battle for Diane Foley, mother of beheaded New Hampshire conflict journalist James Foley. But eight years after her son was captured by ISIS terrorists in Syria, there was a step Tuesday in the right direction.

President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday, after funeral services for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Joe Biden generated headlines in February with a debate-stage promise to name the first Black female Supreme Court justice if he wins the White House

Members of a federal appeals court signaled Tuesday that they will likely let a lower court judge decide whether to dismiss criminal charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, NBC News reported. After more than three hours of oral argument conducted by telephone conference call, a majority of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seemed...

Ben Crump, the attorney for George Floyd’s family, spoke at the memorial for Floyd and called for people to stand up to evil.

Roger Stone, the associate of President Donald Trump convicted of witness tampering and lying to Congress, is due to face sentencing on Thursday even as he continues to argue for a new trial. The case received renewed attention when federal prosecutors quit after Attorney General William Barr overruled their initial sentencing recommendation after it was filed. The move came after...

President Donald Trump’s associate Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to more than 3 years in prison on obstruction and perjury charges by a judge who has come under attack by the president as he assails the case against Stone.  Judge Amy Berman Jackson moved forward with Stone’s sentencing on seven felonies after Attorney General Bill Barr overruled his own...

The family of a toddler who died after falling out the window of a cruise ship in Puerto Rico earlier this month told TODAY in an exclusive interview that the cruise company’s negligence “cost our child her life.” “We obviously blame them for not having a safer situation on the 11th floor of that cruise ship. There are a million...

Police in Springfield are investigating the death of a man found on a city street in the early morning hours.

A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her sister in their Boston apartment in 2011 was sentenced to serve two consecutive terms Thursday morning. Prosecutors say a Suffolk Superior Court jury on Wednesday found Jean Weevins Janvier guilty of first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the November 2011 fatal shootings of 21-year-old Stephanie Emile and 23-year-old Judith Emile.

Kim Kardashian West came to the White House Thursday to announce a new ride-share program being launched to help former prisoners with transportation for job interviews after returning home.

David Johns sits down with Nessa to talk about his mission to end LGBTQ bias and stigma. He says the first step is to have conversations, and the second step is to be an accomplice to the LGBTQ community, not an ally. Johns also emphasizes the importance of preventing HIV through medications, like PrEP and PEP.

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) grew frustrated with Attorney General Barr during the Senate judiciary committee hearing Wednesday when Barr would not answer her question on whether he thought it was ok for President Trump to ask White House Counsel Don McGahn to lie on his behalf.

The high-flying drama that surrounded a Southwest D.C. bald eagle nest took it’s latest turn Wednesday as Justice, the male eagle at the center of the drama, made a reappearance.

A high drama is unfolding in the nest of Liberty and Justice, two bald eagles who have hatched several eaglets above the police academy in Southwest D.C. over the last 15 years.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was the first woman to jump into the 2020 presidential race three weeks ago, said it’s terrific that a fourth woman, US Senator Kamala Harris, has joined the field. 

President Donald Trump’s lawyer has acknowledged that he received briefings from attorneys for Paul Manafort while Manafort was cooperating with Robert Mueller, an unusual development that legal experts say raises the specter of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Trump’s chief defense lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told the Associated Press that Manafort’s attorneys had been briefing him, a fact first reported...

Kids accused of crimes in the Bay Area are being confined in secure detention facilities at high rates pre-trial, even when “risk assessments” find they’re eligible for release, an NBC Bay Area investigation found. Probation departments refer to those cases as “detention overrides,” and since 2017, nearly 2,000 juveniles determined to be safe for release based on their risk assessment...