Disgraced NFL star loses bid to undo plea deal in rape case
Disgraced NFL star Darren Sharper’s attempt to get out of a 2016 plea deal and 18-year prison sentence in a sexual assault case has been rejected by a federal judge.…
Ex-NSA contractor to be sentenced in stolen documents case
A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Harold Martin, 54, apologized…
US budget deficit jumps 23% through June
The U.S. budget deficit increased by $140 billion during the first nine months of this budget year to $747.1 billion as government revenues and spending both hit records. The Treasury…
GOP threat ends Kansas governor’s food assistance extension
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday dropped a policy that allowed several thousand Kansas adults to keep receiving food assistance after failing to meet a work requirement, reversing course days…
Sentencing looms in Charlottesville attack; man seeks mercy
The self-avowed white supremacist who plowed his car into counterdemonstrators opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago, killing one person and injuring dozens, has asked a judge…
Justice Ginsburg warns of more 5-4 decisions ahead
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that there will be sharp divisions among her colleagues as they finish their term, with decisions in high-profile cases about the census…
Israel heads to election as Netanyahu fails to form govt
Israel’s parliament voted to dissolve itself early Thursday, sending the country to an unprecedented second snap election this year as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition…
Ex-intelligence analyst charged with leaks to reporter
A former government intelligence analyst has been charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns against terrorist group al-Qaeda to a reporter. Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, was…
Court won’t immediately stop wait-in-Mexico asylum policy
A federal appeals court put a judge’s order on hold Friday shortly before it would have stopped the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their…
Ocasio-Cortez to bring Kavanaugh critic to Trump’s SOTU
Interested in Supreme Court? Add Supreme Court as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Supreme Court news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s…