Today, such mentions serve as sad reminders of women's lack of legal agency and the ways in which the state colluded to go ... Congress passed the White-Slave Traffic Act—now better known as the ...

The music mogul’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a sex-trafficking charge, saying that the law involved has “racist ...

Diddy says the feds are trying to take him down purely because he's a successful Black man, and they're using a law that's been "racist" since its inception to do ...

A Hawaii man released after spending 30 years in prison for a murder he has always denied committing has spent his first day ...

According to the lawyers, the charges were based on the White-Slave Traffic Act, now known as the Mann Act. For the unversed, the Mann Act criminalizes the transportation of "any woman or girl for ...

Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and ...

and he is being prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished.” Diddy’s attorneys highlighted the history of the Mann Act, originally known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, calling it ...

“Such conduct has never previously triggered Mann Act liability.” His counsel states that the count should be dismissed as an instance of selective prosecution, as the Mann Act has a history ...

Speaking at the Pentagon on February 7, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invoked predecessor Donald Rumsfeld’s 2001 speech declaring war on bureaucracy and “shifting resources from the ...

The 32-year-old grandson of President John F, Kennedy told the cost-cutting DOGE initiative to “eat s–t” after the Boston-based library shut its doors Tuesday afternoon because of staffing cuts.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. Peltier was freed Tuesday morning, ...