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  NYC Parents Forced Children to Starve While Buying Fresh Food for Themselves and Locking It Away: Prosecutors

  The home's refrigerator would allegedly be turned to face the wall and cabinets were zip-tied shut so that the kids could not get to the food.

• Prosecutors Seek Increased Gag Order Sanctions Against Trump in Hush Money Trial

  How will increased gag order sanctions affect Trump's trial? Prosecutors are stepping up their game in the hush money case against Trump. Get all the crucial details on why and how this could change the trial's dynamics. Explore the complete article.

• Prosecutors Assert Trump Corrupted 2016 Vote with Hush Money on Trial's Opening Day

  Did Trump corrupt the 2016 vote with hush money? Find out what prosecutors revealed on the hush money trial's opening day. Continue reading to learn more.

• The Election To Partnership, Law Firms Are Making The Hard Choices (Again)

  Making hard choices can be a good thing especially when it comes to firms considering elevating associates to partnership.

• Boycott of UK Company Reckitt Benckiser Expands Despite Apology for Deadly Disinfectants That Killed Over 100 People in Korea

  British consumer goods company apologized for its OxiClean disinfectants that killed more than 100 people in Korea. Meanwhile, prosecutors investigated deeper to determine whether Reckitt Benckiser already recognized the health risk in the products.

• Former House Speaker Hastert’s lawyers seek probation for their client

  Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert asks a federal judge to consider granting him probation sentence due to his deteriorating health and shame he feels from the criminal case.

• Illinois State Representative Ken Dunkin Faces Vote-Buying Allegations; Prosecutors Investigating Complaint

  Illinois state representative Ken Dunkin is accused of vote-buying. Prosecutors are now investigating the said complaint.

• Prosecutors Bring Together Victims' Brigade in Apple Encryption Battle

  Prosecutors handling the case of the San Bernardino shootings took unconventional ways in enlisting victims of the attack over the government's battle with Apple Inc.

• Prosecutors Seeking Death Penalty For Man Who Fatally Shot Memphis Officer Last Year

  The Shelby County district attorney's office filed on Monday thd notice of its intent to seek death in the trial of 30-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, an ex-convict accused of killing Officer Sean Bolton.

• New U.S. prosecution policy is recipe for corporate conflict: lawyers

  Company executives may be quicker to hire lawyers and less likely to cooperate with investigations because of a renewed push by U.S. prosecutors to put individuals in prison instead of only levying big fines on corporations that break the law, lawyers with expertise in white-collar crime cases said.

• Ex-NFL star's fiancee: he told me he didn't kill Lloyd

  Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez's fiancee said on Friday that he told her he did not murder the man he is charged with fatally shooting at an industrial park near their Massachusetts home in June 2013.

• Boston bombing jury hears details of explosives used in attack

  The bombs that tore through the crowd at the Boston Marathon in a deadly 2013 attack were powered by flash powder used in fireworks, an FBI chemist said on Thursday as prosecutors move toward the end of their case.

• U.S. authorities face new fallout from insider trading ruling

  U.S. prosecutors, already smarting from a appeals court ruling that weakens their ability to crack down on future insider trading, on Thursday faced widening fallout from the decision as some existing cases threatened to unravel.

• South African court clears Briton of honeymoon murder

  A South African court cleared British businessman Shrien Dewani on Monday of charges that he paid hitmen to kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

• China investigates senior Xinjiang security official for graft

  Prosecutors have begun an investigation into a former senior security official in China's unruly far western region of Xinjiang for suspected abuse of power and corruption, the government said on Monday.

• Actor Dwight Henry eyed in New Orleans killing after arrest for theft

  Dwight Henry, a baker-turned-actor who rose to prominence with his debut performance in the Oscar-nominated 2012 movie "Beasts of the Southern Wild," is facing scrutiny from prosecutors who say they are not sure why he avoided charges in connection with a 2006 New Orleans killing.

• Brazil's fallen tycoon Batista goes on trial for insider trading

  Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man, arrived at a Rio de Janeiro courthouse on Tuesday for trial on charges of insider trading in the run up to the bankruptcy of his oil firm OGX, the largest bankruptcy in Latin American history.

• Washington mayor nixed plea deal over 2010 campaign: report

  District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray rejected a plea deal from federal prosecutors in connection with their probe of his 2010 election campaign, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

• South Korean President likens to murder the actions of the crew of the ill-fated ferry

  In a press release, South Korean President Park Geun Hye likened the acts of the crew of the sunken ferry to murder and called for a thorough investigation on the incident.