Prosecutors in Texas are trying for a second time to imprison 16-year-old Ethan Couch who was sentenced last week to 10 years probation for driving drunk his truck into four pedestrians, which killed all of them
39-year-old Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general, was arrested after dropping off her daughter at school last Thursday and detained in New York on visa fraud charges, CNN reported. Khobragade was held in a cell with other females and strip-searched following her arrest, the U.S. Marshals Service said. She was soon freed on a $250,000 bond after pleading not guilty to the charges
72-year-old Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing babies that were born alive in his clinic, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running a 'poll mill' out of the same clinic, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as reported by CNN. Gosnell was found guilty in May.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon declared Monday that the "government's once-secret collection of domestic phone records is unconstitutional, setting up likely appeals and further challenges to the data mining, revealed by classified leaker Edward Snowden. Leon said the NSA's collection of metadata (or "phone records of the time and numbers called without any disclosure of content") violated privacy records
