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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ABRAnews — Courts &amp; Justice</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/</link><description>US and world news in one minute: the facts, and how liberal, centrist and conservative outlets present them.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Judge dismisses Trump's $10 billion suit over WSJ story on Epstein birthday letter</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/598/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-598-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:52:27 +0000</pubDate><description>The judge finds Trump did not plausibly allege actual malice and bars refiling, while his legal team says it will press on.</description></item><item><title>Appeals court restores block on DOJ ballot demands over suspected noncitizen voters</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/971/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-971-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate><description>A three-judge panel had briefly lifted the order hours earlier, and the full 9th Circuit will rehear the case with all 11 active judges.</description></item><item><title>Australia's High Court hears challenges to under-16 social media ban</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/752/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-752-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:44:37 +0000</pubDate><description>Reddit and a rights group challenge the law. Communications Minister Anika Wells says it defends Australians' right, and especially children's, to be free from harm.</description></item><item><title>Ex-Chicago FBI chief sues DOJ, says he was wrongly blamed for failed case</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/773/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-773-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:25:42 +0000</pubDate><description>Douglas DePodesta says he was forced out after US attorney Andrew Boutros blamed him for the collapse of a protester prosecution.</description></item><item><title>ICE officer accused of hitting immigrant with SUV in Houston turns himself in</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/820/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-820-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:48:16 +0000</pubDate><description>A judge sets bond at $30,000 for Mario Alberto Morales, whose lawyers call the case political, while the Harris County district attorney says it is not.</description></item><item><title>Snap settles two teens' social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding a Los Angeles trial</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/778/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-778-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:42:08 +0000</pubDate><description>Terms were not disclosed, and the two teenagers had already settled with Meta, TikTok and YouTube before the trial was to begin.</description></item><item><title>Retrial set to start for man accused of starting deadly Palisades fire</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/716/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-716-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:09:41 +0000</pubDate><description>The first trial ended in a June mistrial, and prosecutors ask that jurors not weigh firefighters' work on the earlier Lachman fire.</description></item><item><title>Supreme Court to hear Catholic preschools' challenge to Colorado's nondiscrimination rule</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/657/</link><guid 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speedy trial and her chosen attorney, and that jurors wrongly heard about Arizona shootings.</description></item><item><title>Judge throws out case against two ex-FBI officials accused of lying to Congress</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/722/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-722-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:49:05 +0000</pubDate><description>Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui found no probable cause and called the prosecution "weaponization," but prosecutors could still seek a grand jury indictment.</description></item><item><title>Riot police deploy at Poland's top court after its chief judge is suspended</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/534/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-534-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:21:53 +0000</pubDate><description>Poland's president turned back from a trip to Senegal and entered the building, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk says restoring the rule of law is a duty.</description></item><item><title>Prosecutors charge two conservative activists over using voters' names at Minnesota polling places</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/219/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-219-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:58:31 +0000</pubDate><description>Prosecutors say James O'Keefe and Cam Higby gave poll workers real voters' names, while Higby says he broke no law.</description></item><item><title>Streamer Hasan Piker sues CNN commentator Scott Jennings for defamation, seeking $72.5 million</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/137/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-137-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:55:41 +0000</pubDate><description>Piker says Jennings aired a rearranged video and falsely said he called for lynchings, and Jennings declined to comment to the New York Post.</description></item><item><title>Judge rules Bill Essayli is unlawfully serving as Los Angeles's top federal prosecutor</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/117/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-117-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:47:04 +0000</pubDate><description>The order bars Essayli from two criminal cases but is on hold while the court weighs a stay for appeal. He says the Supreme Court will decide.</description></item><item><title>Prosecutors ask judge to keep Rep. Ilhan Omar's search warrant sealed for now</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/195/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-195-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:14:06 +0000</pubDate><description>More than a dozen news organizations want the warrant released, but prosecutors say disclosure could jeopardize the ongoing criminal investigation of the Minnesota Democrat.</description></item><item><title>Courts reject DOJ bid to set aside about 20,000 California mail ballots</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/4/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-4-v2-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:07:45 +0000</pubDate><description>A judge ruled Wednesday and an appeals panel agreed 2-1 Friday, though DOJ calls the voters likely noncitizens and California disputes that.</description></item><item><title>Tennessee inmate who survived failed execution says she is in constant pain</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/430/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-430-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:53:13 +0000</pubDate><description>In her first public statement, Christa Pike cites incompetence, and Gov. Bill Lee says he expects her sentence to stand unless courts rule otherwise.</description></item><item><title>Texas grand jury indicts ICE officer for hitting a man with his vehicle</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/501/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-501-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:11:45 +0000</pubDate><description>Harris County's district attorney says the officer steered at the man on purpose, but ICE denies that and calls the case "a political stunt."</description></item><item><title>FBI searches Beverly Hills home of a donor to ex-congressman Eric Swalwell</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/119/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-119-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:03:58 +0000</pubDate><description>Swalwell, who resigned from Congress in April amid sexual misconduct allegations, denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. The FBI would not comment further.</description></item><item><title>DOJ files new charges against ex-FBI chief Comey over alleged 2016 leak</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/7/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-7-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate><description>It is the third case against Comey under Trump's second term, and he says he is innocent while his lawyers seek dismissal.</description></item><item><title>Judge halts tree cutting at DC golf course as Trump vows to appeal</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-2-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate><description>Judge Ana Reyes ruled after about 430 trees were cut. Trump calls the ruling unconstitutional and says the course will still close Nov. 15.</description></item><item><title>Federal judge rules Justice Department unlawfully fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ex-FBI director's daughter</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/41/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-41-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:09:07 +0000</pubDate><description>Judge Jesse Furman orders her reinstated with back pay through Dec. 20, 2025. The Justice Department disagrees and says it will appeal in due course.</description></item><item><title>Grand jury reportedly declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over her Jan. 6 testimony</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/97/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-97-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate><description>Prosecutors sought charges over her 2022 House committee testimony about Trump. She stands by it, and the Justice Department could reportedly try again.</description></item><item><title>Judge strikes Justice Department's unsigned new complaint against two former FBI officials</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/126/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-126-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate><description>Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said he knew of no earlier such filing in that court, and the hearing on the original false-statement charges continued.</description></item><item><title>Three Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking</title><link>https://abranews.com/en/story/134/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">abranews-134-v1-en</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:01:26 +0000</pubDate><description>Tal Alexander, 40, and twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni imposed the terms in a federal court in New York. 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