The jury accepted the 2014 document Aretha Franklin Hid in a Couch as a valid will.

A five-year court battle over control of Aretha Frankln's estate by her three sons ended on Tuesday, July 11, when a Michigan jury said a document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin that someone found in her couch's crevice after she died in 2018 is a valid Michigan will.

Yusef Salaam, Central Park Five member headed to Harlem City Council.

Yusef Salaam was one of five teenagers the court convicted for raping and beating a white woman in Central Park, New York, in 1989. But after spending nearly a decade in prison, the court overturned the conviction. The authorities released the five men from prison in 2002. Yusef Salaam won a competitive Democratic primary for … Continue reading Yusef Salaam, Central Park Five member headed to Harlem City Council.

Donald Trump pleads not guilty in classified documents case.

As was expected, the former President pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges that he hoarded classified military secrets at his estate in Mar-a-Lago and hindered the government's attempts to get the documents back.