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New York now has 524 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which has recently resulted in its first death, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.

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Schools in Alabama have been barred from teaching yoga since 1993, but legislators will debate a bill proposing to lift in the ban.

Virginia has become the first southern U.S. state, and fourth state in the country, to ban racial discrimination on the basis of hair.

The ex-U.S. attorney Joyce Vance also accused Chief Justice Roberts of "permitting so much from Trump to go unacknowledged" after he rebuked Schumer.

Neal Katyal said the country had a "robust tradition of law" and suggested it would "find a way to catch up" with the president

The New York representative said people needed to "slow down a bit" on criticising changes to bail rules in the state that sparked controversy.

Etienne Uzac, a former co-owner of IBT Media and Newsweek Media Group, does not face jail time after plea in money-laundering scandal.

Laurence Tribe also accused President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr of wielding "raw, naked, unprincipled, immoral power."

The bill will jail any librarian who hosts drag queen story hours or allows children to check out books featuring LGBTQ or explicitly sexual topics for up to a year.

At the March for Life, the president said that New York and Virginia laws permit abortion "all the way up until the moment of birth."

Tilli Buchanan may have to register as a sex offender after being charged with lewdness for being topless in her own home in the presence of her stepchildren.

Legal expert Alan Dershowitz retracted remarks from 1998 saying that impeachment does not require a crime, insisting that his current defense of President Donald Trump is "correct today."

The Harvard Law emeritus professor told "Larry King Live" impeachment was like a "non-violent revolution" and the "most dramatic act of undoing democracy."

San Antonio is trying to keep Chick-fil-A out of its airport due to the restaurant chain's alleged anti-LGTBQ views.

Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan referred to Kathrine Nicole Jett as "he" throughout his advisory opinion on her motion filing.

The ruling has drawn criticism from experts who cite multiple studies which show the phones do not generate enough energy to cause tumors.

Ten counts of possession of child pornography have been levied against a 69-year-old middle school teacher.

A Florida man tried to get harassment charges dropped against himself by posing as the prosecutor in his case—and now may be going to jail for decades.

Governor JB Pritzker has pardoned over 11,000 former drug offenders ahead of Illinois legalizing the drug in 2020.

An Ohio woman stands accused of punching another woman in the head on Christmas Day for wishing her "Merry Christmas."

Mobile, Alabama's police chief has released an apology after a photograph of two of the city's officers holding what they called a "homeless quilt"—a raft of cardboard signs taped together, allegedly taken from the homeless people they'd arrested—went viral.

Seattle families were notified of changes to school policy. To attend school, students must be fully vaccinated, in the process of doing so, or have a signed Certificate of Exemption.

After nine Mormons—three women and six children—were murdered by the side of a Mexican road in November, a national outcry erupted. Now a police chief has been arrested over his ties to the crime.

"It's really heartbreaking... the same thing that she was trying to be vocal about happened to her," said a friend of the victim.

A Louisiana-based couple faces prison time after participating in a growing trend involving skateboarding on freeways. Their goal: to recreate a skateboarding stunt filmed on the same bridge in the 1970s.

Demetrius Johnson has become the twentieth person exonerated of a crime for which he was allegedly framed by a retired police detective from Chicago, Reynaldo Guevara.

The U.S. Senate passed a bill that will allow emotional assistance animals in courtrooms nationwide.

"These are nominees that we're seeing who are not just inimical to LGBT protections but to civil rights generally," a senior attorney with Lambda Legal said.

Pets that are being leased or rented to own may soon be a thing of the past in Florida and Michigan, which are both seeking to end the practice in their states.