Donald Trump doesn’t want Mark Zuckerberg to forget about their long-running beef. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday, the former president said “election fraudsters” would be imprisoned if he gets elected in November. The post name-checked the Meta CEO. “They have no shame! All I can say is that if I’m […]
The first of Donald Trump’s criminal trials kicked off in earnest this week in New York. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 felony counts, alleging that he falsified records to cover up a ‘hush money’ payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. It’s an unprecedented case. Never before has a former US […]
When Andre Gay went to state prison in Pennsylvania in 1972, he was just 16 years old, sentenced to life without parole for murder and aggravated robbery. “I was a kid when I came to jail,” he says, “so I was basically a blank slate.” Gay learned from the older men there, whom he called […]
Not since Eugene V. Debs campaigned from a prison cell more than a century ago has the United States experienced what might now happen: a prominent candidate with a felony conviction running for president. And never before has that candidate been someone with a real chance of winning. Former President Donald J. Trump has been […]
Three Tennessee inmates escaped from jail through an HVAC air vent Friday morning, and are believed to be on the loose in Virginia, authorities said. Tobias Wayne Carr, 38, Johnny Shane Brown, 50, and Timothy Allen Sarver, 45, accessed the air vent system through the ceiling of their cell and escaped through the vent on […]
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd, is expected to be held at a maximum-security prison in Minnesota for the next eight weeks as he awaits sentencing. The nation reacted Tuesday after a panel of jurors found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter […]
Virginia legislators appear poised to abolish the death penalty in the coming days, a step that would make it the first Southern state to end the practice of capital punishment. A bill to end capital punishment passed the state Senate on Wednesday by a 21-17 margin. The state House of Delegates is set to take […]
O.J. Simpson’s time in prison could come to a close as early as Sunday. The former football star was granted parole in July and has been locked up in Nevada since 2008 following an armed robbery conviction. Simpson has said he’d like to return to Florida but that state’s attorney general is trying to block […]
LOVELOCK, Nev. — O.J. Simpson was granted parole Thursday after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel heist, successfully making his case in a nationally televised hearing that reflected America’s enduring fascination with the former football star. With the ruling, the 70-year-old Simpson, who was convicted in 2008 of an armed […]
A Pennsylvania judge was sentenced to 28 years in prison in connection to a bribery scandal that roiled the state’s juvenile justice system. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was convicted of taking $1 million in bribes from developers of juvenile detention centers. The judge then presided over cases that would send juveniles to […]
