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Supreme Court justices, with Donald Trump breaking historical precedent by attending oral arguments, tackled the legality of his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S., a contentious part of his administration’s immigration approach. The justices heard arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that …

What to know about the trial as closing arguments begin Closing submissions begin today in Milton, Ont., at the trial of the Burlington couple accused in the death of a 12-year-old and crimes against his younger brother. Becky Hamber, 46, and Brandy Cooney, 44, are alleged to have abused and …

Lawyer for a man acquitted in a high-profile Toronto murder trial where a police officer was killed is calling for a public inquiry into the “secretive process” behind a recent Ontario Provincial Police report that re-examines evidence from the trial. Umar Zameer’s lawyer Nader Hasan said at a news conference …

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LISTEN | Full interview with activist and lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong: As It Happens6:47Civil rights lawyer says Trump officials doctored her photo because they couldn’t break her spirit When Minnesota civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong learned the White House had posted an altered photo of her appearing to sob …

Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The Law Society of Ontario has suspended the licence of Deepak Paradkar, one of seven Canadians arrested in connection with alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding’s cocaine smuggling …

Israeli police have arrested a former top military chief legal officer, days after she handed in her resignation over a criminal inquiry into a leaked video that shows soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee. Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested Sunday night, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir confirmed Tuesday. Her …

Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya is ending a seven-year legal challenge against sex eligibility rules in track and field, her lawyers said Thursday, despite winning a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights in July that appeared to have reignited one of sports’ most contentious cases. Patrick Bracher, a …

In July, Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton drove to the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec where he’d arranged to pick up his two sisters coming from Miami, but the reunion didn’t happen as planned.  The sisters, who fled Haiti last year due to violence, had hoped to settle in …