A former Taliban commander has been sentenced in New York to 42 years in prison for crimes including the 2008 kidnapping of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now.

The lawyer for an Afghan commander awaiting trial in Manhattan federal court says it's preposterous to charge his client in the killing of three American soldiers.

A state judge who first handled the case had issued a narrower restraining order that temporarily blocked the public disclosure of records concerning unsubstantiated and non-finalized allegations or settlement agreements. In all, the searchable database contains 12,056 complaints against 3,996 active NYPD officers. But we believe the public good it could do outweighs the potential harm, ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg said. In issuing the temporary restraining order, Failla also barred the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union from publicly releasing records it had already obtained. The organization said it requested officer misconduct complaints from the CCRB under the states open records law and received them before the unions lawsuit was filed.

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is safe for at least one more week after a judge on Monday turned down the NFL's request for an expedited hearing in his case, according to a report from The Associated Press. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla rejected the request, affirming the originally scheduled next hearing for Oct. 30, the day after the Cowboys play at Washington. After the NFL received a preliminary injunction against a court ruling allowing Elliott to play, another judge issued a restraining order last week that cleared him to play in Sunday's 40-10 win at San Francisco. Elliott excelled in the rout of the winless 49ers, scoring three touchdowns and posting a career best 219 yards from scrimmage. Elliott, 22, was accused of having several physical confrontations during the summer of 2016 with his then-girlfriend Tiffany Thompson.