crime, law and justice

Charges against Donald Trump, Jan. 6 rioters at stake as U.S. Supreme Court hears debate over obstruction law

The Supreme Court on April 16 is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal pro...

A trial is underway for the Panama Papers, a case that changed the country's financial rules

Eight years after 11 million leaked secret financial documents revealed how some of the world's rich...

Donald Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway

Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 Presidential election by preventing damaging stor...

'I can't breathe': Black man in Ohio tells police before he died, video shows

Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling offi...

Indian student stabbed to death in Australia; police search for two Indian-origin brothers

A 22-year-old M.Tech student from India was stabbed to death in Australia during a fight between som...

Donald Trump faces jail threat over gag order as prosecutors zero in on transactions at heart of the case

Donald Trump returns to his hush money trial on May 7 facing a threat of jail time for additional ga...

U.S. Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes

Boeing has violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two de...

Trump hush-money trial: Appeals court upholds gag order; Cohen gives more testimony

A New York appeals court on May 14 upheld the gag order in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, finding ...

TikTok content creators sue the U.S. government over law that could ban the popular platform

Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. Government on May 14, issuing another challenge to the n...

French police fatally shoot a man suspected of planning to set fire to a synagogue

French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having se...

U.K. court allows Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange to appeal extradition

The U.K. High Court on May 20 granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a reprieve by allowing him to...

Trump hush-money trial: Prosecution rests, closing arguments likely next week

After approximately five weeks, 19 witnesses, reams of documents and a dash of salacious testimony, ...

Trump hush-money trial: Defence rests without Trump taking the witness stand

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defence on May 21 without the former president taking the witnes...

ED attaches ₹58.93 crore in assets linked to IREO Group and others

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached properties worth ₹58.93 crore belonging ...

Trump's attacks on U.S. justice system after guilty verdict could be useful to autocrats like Putin

After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case, Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal ju...

The View From India | What’s next for Trump after conviction?

(These article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs expe...