Crime, Law and Justice

Appeals court upholds sentences of MN men who tried to join ISIS
Defense attorneys had argued that jury instructions had conflated intending to join at terrorist group with intending to murder, and that prosecutors should have been required to prove a specific intent to kill.
Four people, including two police officers, were shot to death in an apartment complex in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton on Friday, and a suspect was taken into custody, authorities said.
Court orders ban on harmful pesticide, says EPA violated law
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains.
Authorities said the perpetrators of the attack used so-called phishing emails to access the credentials to about 20 employees' email accounts. They then used those legitimate accounts to send out malicious emails.
Abuse victims to vote on Archdiocese bankruptcy plan
Some 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse will likely vote this month on a reorganization plan for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, according to a timeline laid out Thursday in a federal bankruptcy court hearing.