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Samuel Alito and his wife were the honored guests of a German princess and enjoyed a spot of luxe castle living in 2023: report
The princess called Alito and his wife her "friends" and Alito a "hero," the NYT reported.
Aditi Bharade
Trump airplane-assault accuser Jessica Leeds calls him a 'sexual predator' and says she's deciding whether to sue
Jessica Leeds testified that Donald Trump groped her on an airplane in testimony for E. Jean Carrol…
Jacob Shamsian,Laura Italiano
China is going after 'empty student' consultants, who help you graduate without attending a single class for a $2,800 'relationship' fee
State media found that Chinese schools for fields like IT, car manufacturing, and aviation were let…
Matthew Loh
Trump's lawyers say an accuser's sexual assault testimony should have been tossed because the incident was aboard an airplane
Donald Trump appeared in court Friday for arguments in the appeal of the E. Jean Carroll trial that…
Jacob Shamsian
Russian former deputy minister 'stole' a 3-bedroom apartment in Moscow with false documents, investigators say
Pavel Baryshev, who was deputy minister for natural resources, is accused of using forged documents…
Matthew Loh
Trump will mimic Harvey Weinstein's successful appeal to fight his own sexual assault verdict Friday. It won't be as easy.
Weinstein's lawyers and the architect of the law Carroll used to sue Trump all say the former presi…
Laura Italiano,Jacob Shamsian
A top 'engineer' faked his degrees and only had a high-school education. He got away with it for years.
A South African rail agency's chief engineer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after lying about …
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
Inside America's wildest — and most lucrative — lawsuits
Mass torts hold companies accountable for their actions — but they're a product of pure anarchy.
Jack Newsham
China is telling Gen Zers to beware of online dating and rock music because they might be traps by spies or the West
A nationwide push to make civilians more vigilant has spawned a slew of official warnings for a lit…
Matthew Loh
A top New York official was paid off by China with salted ducks, a job for her cousin, and millions to her husband's business: DOJ
Linda Sun, 40, was charged on Tuesday with 10 criminal counts, with prosecutors saying she blocked …
Matthew Loh
Chinese farmers across 14 towns are spraying industrial sulfur on wolfberries so they'd be 'red and beautiful:' state media
CCTV aired clips of workers soaking the berries in vats of sodium metabisulfite and smoking them in…
Matthew Loh
A popular website that connects caregivers with people in need deceived its users of millions of dollars, the FTC says
Care.com agreed to pay $8.5 million after the FTC said it deceived both caregivers and people needi…
Kenneth Niemeyer
A Russian murder convict joined Wagner, went home, killed again, then got out a 2nd time by joining the army: rights group
Ivan Rossomakhin, 29, was to serve 23 years in prison after committing another murder in 2023, but …
Matthew Loh
An unprecedented legal move could let Trump delay his hush-money sentencing until after Election Day
Experts predict Trump is about to use his new immunity powers to pull an unprecedented legal move t…
Laura Italiano
Investigators say 5 bodies were found in the same cabin of Mike Lynch's superyacht as they begin looking into 'crime hypothesis'
Prosecutors say a manslaughter investigation has been opened after the sinking of British tech tyco…
Rebecca Rommen
Ex-FTX exec's girlfriend accused of using his money to illegally fuel her political career
Federal prosecutors brought charges against Michelle Bond, a failed Republican congressional candid…
Jacob Shamsian
Authorities raid Andrew Tate's home again — this time as part of an underage sex investigation
Romanian police raided four homes Wednesday in relation to fresh allegations against self-described…
Geoff Weiss
A judge who overturned a $72 million verdict against Boeing disclosed he bought and sold Boeing stock while hearing the case — but says his wife's IRA was to blame
A judge who threw out a $72 million verdict against Boeing said the case wasn't impacted by a finan…
Jack Newsham
A concertgoer got on stage with Macklemore. Police say she'd 'forgotten' she was a wanted person and arrested her.
Police detained a woman who was invited to sing with Macklemore at a festival in Slovakia, after sh…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
Disney told a man he couldn't take it to court over his wife's death at one of its parks because he once had a Disney+ trial. Now it's backing down.
A doctor died from a severe allergic reaction at Disney Springs in Florida last year. Disney said h…
Grace Dean
An attorney who helped acquit missing tech tycoon Mike Lynch among those feared dead in superyacht disaster
A well-known defense lawyer, who helped Mike Lynch win acquittal, is missing along with his wife af…
Jack Newsham
4 flight attendants plead guilty to smuggling drug money out of US after prosecutors say they used crewmember lanes to get through security
Prosecutors said the flight attendants took advantage of their "Known Crewmember" statuses to get …
Rebecca Rommen
The owner of an MLB team is accused of taking sand from a public Malibu beach for a construction project at his posh home
A neighbor accuses business magnate Mark Attanasio of using Malibu's posh Broad Beach as his own "p…
Natalie Musumeci
Trump spent the weekend flying around America on a plane previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein
The Trump campaign used a plane Jeffrey Epstein flew on just before his arrest on sex-trafficking c…
Jacob Shamsian,Graham Rapier
Exclusive ICE training documents encourage quick, decisive use of deadly force, say little about de-escalation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement training materials don't appear to teach de-escalation techniqu…