Law

Fractured access to abortion sets a backdrop for upcoming Supreme Court ruling

5:07am April 11, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute about the state of abortion access in the U.S., ahead of a Supreme Court decision on a Mississippi abortion ban.

Body bags with the remains of Kosovo Albanians buried in mass graves in Serbia in 1999 lay in Batajnica near Belgrade in August 2005 prior to being returned to Kosovo.

From Nuremberg to Darfur, history has seen some war criminals brought to trial

9:12am April 10, 2022

by Ron Elving

Responsibility is difficult to prove conclusively in a war zone, and evidence might have to link such acts to national leaders far from the battlefield. But it has happened.

Politics & Government

After 232 years, Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

8:22am April 10, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe asks Biden administration strategist Minyon Moore about Biden's successful nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

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Mark Riddell arrives at federal court in Boston on April 12, 2019. The former Florida prep school administrator took college entrance exams for students in exchange for cash to help wealthy parents get their kids into elite universities.

A college exam taker gets prison and a coach is convicted in the admissions scam

8:45am April 09, 2022

by The Associated Press

A former Florida prep school administrator was sentenced to four months in prison and a decorated water polo coach at the University of Southern California was swiftly convicted of fraud and bribery.

Politics & Government

More details emerge in federal investigation into Hunter Biden

8:25am April 09, 2022

by David Folkenflik

In 2020, much of the mainstream media dismissed a story about Hunter Biden's business dealings. Now emails supporting the story have been authenticated. Was the media too deferential to the Bidens?

Former Goldman Sachs executive Roger Ng (center) leaves Brooklyn federal court with attorney Marc Agnifilo on May 6, 2019, in New York. On Friday, Ng was convicted of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion sch

World News

A former Goldman Sachs banker is found guilty in a plot to loot Malaysia's 1MDB fund

5:53pm April 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

Roger Ng was convicted in a New York federal court of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund.

National

Judge Jackson is the 1st, but hopefully not last, Black woman Supreme Court Justice

4:53pm April 08, 2022

A day after her Supreme Court confirmation, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson paid tribute to the path-breaking Black Americans who she said did the heavy lifting which made this moment possible.

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2 found not guilty in Michigan governor kidnapping plot

4:53pm April 08, 2022

by Rick Pluta, Michigan Public Radio Network

Jurors in Michigan acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gove Gretchen Whitmer. The jury deadlocked over charges of two other defendants and the judge declared a mistrial for them.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks as President Biden reacts at an event celebrating Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.

Jackson notes the progress she represents in her journey to the Supreme Court

4:14pm April 08, 2022

by Eric McDaniel

A day after the Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, she spoke at the White House with President Biden and Vice President Harris

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attends an event with President Biden on March 9 at the White House.

2 men are acquitted in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer; hung jury on 2 more

3:12pm April 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

Two of four men were acquitted Friday in a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, motivated by fury at the Democrat's tough COVID-19 restrictions early in the pandemic.