Under pressure to meet steep sales goals and incentives, Wells Fargo employees created over a million fraudulent accounts in their customers’ names.

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. By Ian MacDougall.

A judge ordered a New Jersey couple Thursday to give a homeless Philadelphia man whatever's left of the $400,000 they raised for him. Katie McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, were told by the Burlington, New Jersey, judge to turn over the remaining money they raised through a GoFundMe campaign for Johnny Bobbitt, according to NBC Philadelphia. The judge also demanded that McClure and D'Amico provide a full accounting of each dollar they collected, the station reported.

A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, in a ruling released on Thursday. The lawsuit was filed in state district court in Austin by Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, parents of Noah Pozner, who was 6 years old when he was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Thanks to ruthless discipline — and a plan long in the making — the G.O.P is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary.

What happens when the Supreme Court becomes significantly more conservative than the public?

We are said to be the most dangerous prisoners in the world. Yet in the years since this prison was opened, there have been no murders here, no escape attempts, no drugs. The only deaths have been those of the nine men who succumbed to health problems or took their own lives. By Ahmed Rabbani. (July 27, 2018)

For the second time in two years, America's prisoners have staged a mass, coordinated strike, demanding an end to slave labor for incarcerated people, channels for redress of grievances, an end to racial discrimination in the American penal system, access to rehabilitation programs, the reinstatement of Pell grants, the right of ex-prisoners to vote, and the right of rehabilitated prisoners to be paroled.

Bayer said the number of US lawsuits brought against newly acquired Monsanto has risen to about 8,000 from 5,200 previously, after Monsanto was ordered to pay damages for not warning of alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers. The number of plaintiffs in both state and federal litigation is approximately 8,000 as of end-July.

A federal court will be scrutinizing one of the National Security Agency’s worst spying programs on Monday. The case has the potential to restore crucial privacy protections for the millions of Americans who use the internet to communicate with family, friends, and others overseas.

The police official acknowledged stating online that he's a person a color, even though he's white. By Daniel Connolly. (Aug. 20, 2018)

Tuesday offered vivid evidence of the way in which right-wing media insulates Trump, and his most devoted supporters, from blunt assessments of his administration.

A jury has awarded more than $242 million to a Dallas-area family after finding that manufacturer defects in their Lexus ES 300 caused their...

For the first time since Aaron Salter was wrongly convicted of murder in 2003, he celebrated his birthday as a free man. It was a gift that federal defenders Colleen Fitzharris and Jonathan Epstein helped pick out for him. "I think that birthday present right there makes up for the whole 15 years that I was locked up and missed my birthday," Salter said.

Autonomous vehicles are no longer the stuff of science fiction, and so the chances of them occasionally failing and crashing are very much real—and so are the liabilities. Who will pay? Who will get sued? What causes of action will be alleged?

Concerns over Apple's elaborate efforts to reduce its tax bill are nothing new. The company — which hit a historic $1 trillion valuation this month— was punished in 2016 for a tax deal in Ireland, which the EU said amounted to illegal state aid. But a newly discovered tactic has reignited the debate about the company's tax contributions. The San Francisco Chronicle reported over the weekend that Apple is "aggressive in opposing tax assessors," public officials who determine the value of property for tax reasons.

Federal authorities halted work on the massive Mountain Valley Pipeline this month after an appeals court ruled that federal agencies neglected to follow environmental protections. By Kate Mishkin, Beena Raghavendran, Ken Ward Jr.

San Francisco jurors just ruled that that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school groundskeeper terminal cancer. So they awarded him $289 million in damages, mostly to punish the agricultural company Monsanto. Dewayne Johnson's victory Friday against Monsanto could set a massive precedent for thousands of other cases claiming the company's famous herbicide causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Court finds in favor of DeWayne Johnson, ill man who was first to take Roundup maker to trial over allegations

There may yet be justice for DC hotel owners as suit on emoluments clause moves forward.