Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press

Alanna Durkin Richer

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Past articles by Alanna:

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations involving Trump have cost more than $9 million

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified records and efforts to overturn the results of the 202... → Read More

Capitol rioter linked to Proud Boys gets 5 years in prison for pepper-spraying police

A Florida man prosecutors say is affiliated with the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for attacking police o... → Read More

Legitimacy of ‘customer’ in Supreme Court gay rights case raises ethical, legal flags

A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said can refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples pointed during her lawsuit to a request from... → Read More

Shooting in France shows U.S. is not alone in struggles with racism, police brutality

The events in France after police shot a teen in a Paris suburb are drawing parallels to the U.S. racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder. → Read More

Shooting in France shows US is not alone in struggles with racism, police brutality

A police killing caught on video. Protests and rioting fueled by long-simmering tensions over law enforcement treatment of minorities. Demands for acc... → Read More

Ex-Roman Catholic cardinal, now 92, is not competent to stand trial in sex abuse case, expert says

BOSTON (AP) — Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on charges accusing him of sexually assaulting a teena... → Read More

Prosecutors drop Varsity Blues charges against 2 parents after appeals court ruling

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against two parents whose convictions in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal were ... → Read More

Pentagon documents leak suspect Jack Teixeira pleads not guilty to federal charges

The Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking classified military documents pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal felony charges. → Read More

Pentagon Documents Leak Suspect Guardsman Jack Teixeira Is Due Back in Court on Federal Charges

Jack Teixeira is scheduled to be arraigned in the Worcester federal court on six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. → Read More

Pentagon documents leak suspect Jack Teixeira pleads not guilty to federal charges

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social... → Read More

Pentagon documents leak suspect Guardsman Jack Teixeira is due back in court on federal charges

The Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents is due back in court on Wednesday after being indi... → Read More

How much prison time could Trump face? Past cases brought steep punishment for document hoarders

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigators who searched Harold Martin’s Maryland property in the fall of 2016 found classified documents — including mate... → Read More

Donald Trump will face judge in historic court appearance over charges he mishandled secret documents

MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump was set to make his first court appearance Tuesday in a historic criminal case charging the former president with hoarding t... → Read More

Trump indictment takeaways: Prosecutors detail schemes and lies to keep secret papers

MIAMI (AP) — The federal indictment against Donald Trump accuses the former president of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate... → Read More

Indictment takeaways: Trump’s alleged schemes and lies to keep secret papers

MIAMI (AP) — The federal indictment against Donald Trump accuses the former president of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate... → Read More

Owner of funeral homes accused of spraying insecticide at cops, assaulting media at Jan. 6 riot

An owner of several funeral homes on Long Island was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sprayed wasp killer at police officers and attacked journal... → Read More

Navy Veteran Who Stormed Capitol as Oath Keeper Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge

James Breheny's attorney said his client, a Navy veteran, entered the guilty plea to “make amends for a lack of good judgement on Jan. 6, 2021." → Read More

New Jersey Oath Keeper who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 pleads guilty to felony charge

A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group from New Jersey who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and bragged about it in text messages pleaded gu... → Read More

Oath Keeper Who Guarded Roger Stone Before Jan. 6 Attack Gets More Than 4 Years in Prison

Roberto Minuta, who was seen on video guarding Roger Stone hours before the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, was among six Oath Keeper members convicted by jurors of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors said was a violent plot to stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election. → Read More

Oath Keeper who guarded Roger Stone before Jan. 6 attack gets more than 4 years in prison

A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group who guarded Trump advisor Roger Stone before storming the U.S. Capitol gets more than four years in prison. → Read More