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Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings. Nevada’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower court’s ruling that had sided with a gun manufacturer’s argument the 2021 law regulating firearm parts with no serial numbers was unconstitutionally vague. The high court said in a unanimous decision Thursday the law's language passes legal muster. Abortion rights advocates cheered the other ruling in a fight over a voter petition on reproductive health care. But they've since replaced it with another petition they're confident will qualify for the November ballot focused specifically on abortion rights.

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FILE - "Ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department, Nov. 27, 2019, in San Francisco. Nevada's Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on ghost guns Thursday, April 18, 2024, overturning a lower court's ruling that had sided with a gun manufacturer's' argument the 2021 law regulating firearm components with no serial numbers was too broad and unconstitutionally vague. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked. Judge Juan Merchan also asked journalists on Thursday to show some discretion on what they say about the potential jurors as he tries to seat a jury pool of people who can remain anonymous. Two jurors who had earlier been seated were dismissed on Thursday, with one expressing concern about people she knew questioning her about whether she was on the jury. Besides showing the difficulties in seating an anonymous jury, the actions may put news organizations in the difficult position of not reporting something they heard in an open courtroom.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks with the media while holding news clippings following his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

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Former President Donald Trump returns to the courtroom for his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Federal officials are pushing back against a judge’s order that would delay the planned closure of a troubled women’s prison in California where inmates suffered sexual abuse by guards. The Bureau of Prisons announced Monday that FCI Dublin would be shut down. The judge then ordered an accounting of the casework for all 605 inmates. The bureau has filed court papers in response questioning the authority of the special master appointed by the judge to oversee the prison. The special master is now tasked with reviewing each inmate’s status. Federal officials say plans for the closure and transfer of inmates have long been in place and cannot be changed on the fly.

Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in late 2022, was out for a drive the night they were killed. That's what his attorneys say in a new court filing that lays out more details of the alibi defense he intends to use at his trial. Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were stabbed to death at a rental home near the university campus in Moscow, Idaho, early on Nov. 13, 2022. Kohberger was then a criminal justice student at Washington State University in nearby Pullman, Washington. He has been charged with four counts of murder.

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FILE - Bryan Kohberger, right, is escorted into a courtroom for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger, the man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in late 2022, was out for a drive the night they were killed, his attorneys said in a new court filing Wednesday, April 17, 2024, that lays out more details of the alibi defense he intends to use at his trial. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)

A British man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit has received an “unreserved apology” from the U.K.’s review body that twice rejected his attempts to have his case referred to the Court of Appeal. The 58-year-old Andrew Malkinson had his conviction quashed last July by the appeals court after recently obtained DNA evidence linked another suspect to the crime. He applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, firstly as early as 2009, but was rebuffed. Malkinson said he felt “vindicated” by Thursday's apology but that “it is too little too late.”

A human rights organization representing ethnic Armenians has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court arguing that Azerbaijan is committing an ongoing genocide against them. Azerbaijan’s government did not immediately respond to the filing. The neighboring countries have been at odds for decades over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Lawyers for the human rights group California-based Center for Truth and Justice say there is sufficient evidence to open a formal investigation into Azerbaijani leaders for genocide. The rights organization said it has submitted a dossier of evidence containing the testimony of more than 500 victims and witnesses. Now it's up to the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan to decide whether to take up the case.