A woman screams during a government-organized event to watch former President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores appear in a New York court on a screen in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 26, 2026. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption
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A courtroom sketch shows U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein at the Manhattan federal court hearing over Donald Trump's push to move his criminal case to federal court, in New York City, on June 27, 2023. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters hide caption
ICE is among the government agencies that buy commercial data about Americans in bulk. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A recording of Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's deposition is played for the jurors on March 4 in Santa Fe, N.M. Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican/AP hide caption
Colin McDonald speaks during his Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on Feb. 25, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
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Supreme Court considers laws allowing mail-in votes to be counted after Election Day
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Elon Musk attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Protesters participate in the Good Trouble Tuesday march for Breonna Taylor, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Amy Harris/Invision/AP/Invision hide caption
Darren Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer, arrives for his deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
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Cases in immigration courts nationwide can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Here, federal agents stand outside an immigration court in New York on March 6, 2026. Yuki Iwamura/AP hide caption
A jury sided with rapper Afroman, whose legal name is Joseph Foreman, in a defamation lawsuit brought by Ohio police who raided his home. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect hide caption
Afroman prevails in cops' music video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial
Kouri Richins, pictured during an August 2024 court hearing, was found guilty of the aggravated murder of her husband and four other charges, including forgery and fraud. Rick Bowmer/Pool AP hide caption
Containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles on Friday. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
The threats to Minnesota’s Medicaid funds are unprecedented. Other states may be next
Prosecutors in Arizona filed criminal charges on Monday against Kalshi, an online prediction market site. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
An Iraqi Shiite Muslim woman holds up the image of killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a symbolic funeral the day after his assassination, in the district of Sadr City, in Baghdad on March 1, 2026. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Khameni's killing raises old questions about U.S. assassinating foreign leaders
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company's AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's former accountant, testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Getty Images/Tom Williams hide caption
An attendee at a gun rights rally open-carries his gun in a holster that reads "We the People," from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, in this 2019 photo at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student known for his role in the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian protests, is now at the center of a legal battle against the Trump administration's deportation policies. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images hide caption
One year later: Mahmoud Khalil remains in limbo but ready to fight
This photo provided by the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department shows Alon Alexander, left, and Oren Alexander, both of whom have been charged with sex trafficking. AP/Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department. hide caption