Nina Totenberg | NPR|For the second time in weeks the court's five conservatives teamed up to overturn decades of precedent, to the consternation of the court's four liberals.
A judge in Illinois' Cook County says a special prosecutor should review the case "to restore the public's confidence in the integrity of our criminal justice system."
Following the release of surveillance video of police shooting and killing a young black man in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles earlier this month, questions are arising about whether the deputies' actions that led to the shooting were justified.
The court is continuing to allow Congress to delegate the details on a law's implementation. But is this decision a harbinger of something quite different?
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider paying $7 million to the family of Donta Taylor, who was killed by sheriff's deputies in Compton three years ago. The deputies claimed Taylor had brandished a gun before they chased him on foot and shot him, but no weapon was ever found.
Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott stunned prosecutors as he described a previously unheard version of events, saying he asphyxiated the teenage Islamic fighter as an act of mercy.
The secretive group espoused a philosophy of self-help but was accused of recruiting women as sex slaves. Charges against Raniere, known as "Vanguard," included sex trafficking and racketeering.
