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  • Lawyer to celebs found guilty in racketeering case

    A once-prominent New Jersey defense attorney whose clients included entertainers and rap stars has been found guilty on all counts at his murder and racketeering trial.


  • Lawyer to celebs guilty in NJ racketeering case

    A once-prominent New Jersey defense attorney whose clients included entertainers and rap stars was convicted Monday of operating a racketeering enterprise that included the murder of a witness and engaged in prostitution, drugs, and witness tampering.


  • Lawyer to celebs guilty in racketeering case

    A once-prominent New Jersey defense attorney whose clients included entertainers and rap stars was convicted Monday of operating a racketeering enterprise that included the murder of a witness and engaged in prostitution, drugs, and witness tampering.


  • **FILE** An Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell in Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sept. 2, 2006, after the Iraqi government took over control from U.S. forces. (Associated Press)

    $5M paid to Iraqis over Abu Ghraib abuse

    A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007.


  • American Scene

    A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to negligent dereliction of duty in a deal that will bring a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War.


  • AP photographer chronicles wars in Berlin show

    An Afghan boy on a swing ride with a toy submachine gun in his hand. A black-clad Iraqi mother giving a bottle to her baby daughter outside Abu Ghraib prison as she waits for the release of detainees. A U.S. Marine mourning the loss of 31 comrades in Iraq.


  • ** FILE ** In this undated photo obtained by ABC News and allegedly taken by Sgt. Charles Frederick, Army Spc. Sabrina Harman of the 372nd Military Police Company poses with the body of Iraqi detainee Manadel al-Jamadi, who is packed in ice, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad in 2003. (AP Photo/ABC News, File)

    Sources: Feds eye CIA officer in Abu Ghraib death

    A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed for approval to use increasingly harsh tactics has come under scrutiny in a federal war crimes investigation involving the death of a prisoner, witnesses told the Associated Press.


  • Can't ban violent video sales to kids, court says

    States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people's First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can buy.


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