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On Wednesday afternoon, Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the gruesome homicides of four University of Idaho students last November, was indicted on all five charges against him by a grand jury. Kohberger faced four counts of murder and one count o...

Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they won’t bring charges in the murder case of Shanquella Robinson, who was killed while on vacation in Cabo in October. Robinson, a 25-year-old Black woman from Charlotte, North Carolina, was found d...

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York star Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. While the indictment remains under seal, and we don’t officially know the specific charges, it is believed to involve Trump’s hush payments made to adul...

If you’re trying to get out of jury duty, the world (and Lifehacker) are full of tips and tricks to dissuade both claimants and defendants from choosing you to serve. But what if you’re an upstanding citizen who wants to serve on a jury? Maybe yo...

I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot about grand juries in the coming months. Earlier this week, news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice brought former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff before a federal grand jury in D...