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This image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey, Dec. 30, 2019. Taylor is accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in 2019 while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges.

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US pair wanted in smuggling of car boss handed over to Japan

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressMarch 1, 2021

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo the Supreme Court is seen as sundown in Washington. The Supreme Court rejected on Dec. 11,a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit, Republican attack on Biden victory

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, Alanna Durkin Richer Associated Press, and Mark Sherman Associated PressDecember 11, 2020

In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday, Dec. 8, refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Scores of Republicans sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressDecember 10, 2020

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2020, file photo, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks after touring the DCU Center as it gears up to be used as a COVID-19 field hospital for the second time in Worcester, Mass. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday, Dec. 10, that Baker did not overstep his authority when he issued sweeping orders to close businesses to control the spread of the coronavirus. (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

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SJC upholds governor’s virus emergency orders

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressDecember 10, 2020

Priscilla Flint-Banks holds a photograph of her 87-year-old mother, Ruby Mae Kinney, who died during April of COVID-19, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Once a coronavirus hot spot, Massachusetts was seen as a model for infection control this summer as coronavirus cases and deaths dwindled. Now, experts are warning the state could be headed for a bleak winter as its cases climb once again and confirmed deaths surpass 10,000. Massachusetts hit 10,015...

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Coronavirus deaths surpass 10,000 in Mass.

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated Press, and Steve LeBlanc Associated PressNovember 12, 2020

The White House is shown Oct. 5, in Washington. President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers as they prepare for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at the ballot box but in court.

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Trump, Biden lawyer up

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated Press, and Eric Tucker Associated PressOctober 25, 2020

Soncia King holds onto her husband Patrick King in Lake Charles, La., Saturday as they walk through the flooded street to their home, after Hurricane Delta moved through on Friday.

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‘We can’t lose our momentum:’ Louisiana vows to rebuild

by Rebecca Santana Associated Press, Stacey Plaisance Associated Press, Staff Report Associated Press, and Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressOctober 11, 2020

Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ralph Gants speaks after being sworn in as chief justice in Boston, July 28, 2014.

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Mass. Chief Justice Gants dies at 65

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressSeptember 14, 2020

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Harvard study finds racial disparities across court system

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressSeptember 9, 2020

File - In this Friday, June 12, 2015, file courtroom sketch, Nicholas Rovinski, second from right, of Warwick, R.I., is depicted standing with his attorney William Fick, right, as Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell, left, presides during a hearing in federal court in Boston. In August 2020, U.S. District Judge William Young ordered Rovinski's early release after his lawyers argued that his medical conditions make him particularly susceptible to serious illness from COVID-19. (Jane Flavell...

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Man involved in beheading plot to be released from prison

by Alanna Durkin Richer Associated PressAugust 13, 2020