A U.S. judge denied on Wednesday the Justice Department's bid to unseal records from the grand jury that indicted the late financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges, saying the material paled in comparison to the trove of records the government has about the case but is not releasing.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration slapped a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court with sanctions as the U.S. State Department continues to push back on the tribunal. The State Department said Wednesday that Kimberly Prost was sanctioned for “ruling to authorize the ICC’s investigation into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.”

Alton Oliver, who was cleared of all charges, was on trial in connection to the killing of a deputy when a judge delivered the wrong verdict.

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman found the government didn't reach the high bar needed to unseal the material and noted it has far more information it could release.

A woman claims that murdered Kentucky Judge Kevin Mullins demanded sexual favors from women in exchange for legal help in the small rural town of Whitesburg.

A defendant in a cannabis trafficking case says defence lawyer Mathieu Rondeau-Poissant and prosecutor Alice Bourbonnais-Rougeau were seeing each other and that the latter tried to hide from her bosses.

Burley challenged the tax closure notices issued to him at the First-Tier Tax Tribunal in London. Following a hearing, Judge Baldwin has now found in HMRC’s favour and said Burley was still personally liable for tax from the film profits.

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are asking the federal judge overseeing his criminal case to throw out the human smuggling charges he’s facing, alleging the Justice Department singled him out for prosecution after he challenged his wrongful deportation to El Salvador earlier this year.