Once again the monthly employment report showed an economy adding jobs, but the data failed to meet expectations and showed some cracks in the employment situation.
Hicks, a former top Trump White house official and trusted adviser, testified as to the Trump campaign’s handling of the “Access Hollywood” tape and denials of other rumored affairs around the time of the 2016 election.
The FBI raided the Democrat lawmaker’s home in 2022 as it investigated his ties to the Azerbaijani government.
Fort Saint-Nicolas has remained a mystery for the people of Marseille since it was built in the 1600s. With dance parties and escape rooms, it will now offer more than typical museum tours.
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Donald Trump is using the same tactics Adolf Hitler used in his successful drive for power in 1932. A recent book by an eminent historian describes it.
Researchers found that the world has much more work to do — both in carbon removal and emission reduction — to meet the Paris Agreement's deadline.
Researchers analyzed 12th-century human and squirrel bones recovered from around the St. Mary Magdeleine leprosarium in Winchester, United Kingdom. Both sets of bones contained evidence of a strain of Mycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy.
Four years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, the data is in: European lifespan has been growing a few months every year, while lives in the U.S. are shrinking.
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Protests are getting bigger, louder and more violent in Georgia as anger mounts over the government's drift away from the West. These are tense times in a country at the heart of the conflict between the West and Russia.
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A misreading of an informal Senate precedent from 1966 has spawned the belief — common even among some lawmakers — that water and milk are the only beverages allowed in the Capitol’s upper chamber.
Poised to transform a defunct rail route, the Great Redwood Trail is expected to bring thousands of new visitors to picturesque Northern California. That has community leaders both optimistic and concerned.
At the Ho'omau Hawaii Market in downtown Honolulu, Native Hawaiians showcase their arts and crafts with the goal of keeping the islands’ traditional culture alive.
Courts & the Law
Voting rights advocates call the ID requirements “a solution in search of a problem." Lawmakers say they are protecting voting rights while adhering to photo ID requirements in the state constitution.
The sportswear company lost a bid to revive claims that the Thom Browne clothing company copied its iconic three-stripe logo in its own athletic wear.
One year after the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history, 75% of Lahaina victims have been able to move out of shelters and into long-term housing, Governor Josh Green said.
Daybell is accused of murdering his ex-wife and two of his current wife's children in 2019 as part his doomsday beliefs.
Under the terms of the settlement, the New Jersey-based company would provide $92.5 million in cash and $180 million worth of naloxone nasal sprays to treat overdoses.
In the first of two marathon hearings, a federal judge focused on Google's dominance in the search market, where it holds an 89.2% market share.
A federal judge declined the prosecution's request to send the 70-year-old seaman to prison for 10 years, saying there was no bad intent in the 2019 tragedy.
Appeals court orders judge to consider restitution for commercial fishers affected by 2015 oil spill
Plains All American Pipeline was found guilty on nine criminal counts stemming from the Refugio oil spill, which happened when one of the company's corroded pipelines burst open.
Neither Baffert nor Churchill Downs is liable for wagers lost on the 2021 Kentucky Derby, whose order of finish was altered after the disqualification of Medina Spirit.
Kimberly Zapata's attorney said she plans to appeal the sentence, which hewed closer to the harsher punishment the prosecution recommended.
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May in California could get off to a wet and cold start as the Golden State climbs further out of drought conditions.
Wall Street was primed for another losing week, until the Federal Reserve and disappointing employment data came to the rescue.
A D.C. Circuit panel said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers followed the law in analyzing the impact of the project.
Gun rights groups sued Colorado's governor on New Years Day as soon as the new law went into effect.
Texas' capital city voted to adopt a measure providing some protections to transgender people seeking gender-affirming care despite state laws against the practice.
The Sacramento DA, however, failed to point to any city law Sacramento isn't following, and the judge said she lacks authority to force the city to pass new laws.
Joaquin Ciria was imprisoned for more than 30 years for a crime he says San Francisco had no probable cause to arrest him with in the first place.
Rulings
A federal court in New York penned a whimsical ruling dismissing most class action false advertising claims against the parent company of the Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shops, except for one claim alleging its pistachio flavor misleadingly and inaccurately suggests there are pistachio nuts in its pistachio ice cream. The suing consumer brought customer surveys showing 85% of those polled expected there to be pistachios in the product.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court affirmed the denial of relief to protesters who challenged the constitutionality of a 200-foot buffer area around a courthouse where protest is not allowed to occur. The zone protects the right to a fair trial and keeps jurors, witnesses and others from being obstructed while arriving at or leaving the courthouse. Protesters may still protest outside the buffer, so it does not violate their First Amendment rights.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the lower court’s decision to sentence a man for shooting and killing his neighbor’s two German Shepherds, who were barking at and chasing deer the man had raised. The deer were fenced, and the dogs were interacting with the deer on the outside of the fence, so the killings were not protected by a legal defense that permits the killing of dogs in the process of killing or wounding other domestic animals.
The Seventh Circuit reversed a Wisconsin federal court’s injunction in favor of environmental advocates who say a proposed land swap’s powerline would run through a wildlife refuge on the Mississippi River; the injunction kept a utility company from doing any construction in the refuge. In this two-page ruling, the appellate panel says the district court made no finding that the environmentalists are likely to succeed on the merits, a necessary element to win a temporary injunction.
A federal court in California dismissed the First Amendment lawsuit brought against the Palomar Health District, whose board member sued after she was reprimanded for criticizing the new website’s terms of use agreements, and for talking about it with a local reporter. The court says her speech was not chilled and that she did in fact speak out, in spite of her claims of self-censorship.
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Hunter Biden filed an interlocutory appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Friday, arguing a federal judge improperly rejected his bid to dismiss tax evasion charges because a plea agreement barred the special counsel from charging him.
Airline passengers and former travel agents seek to stop Alaska Airlines from acquiring Hawaiian Airlines Inc., saying the deal creates a monopoly, shrinks competition in multiple passenger airline markets and threatens Hawaii's economy.
Popular Lunchables meal kits contain lead, cadmium and phthalates, two mothers say in a class action that accuses Kraft Heinz of deceiving customers. A recent report showed that Lunchables — often consumed by children — contained over 60% of the maximum allowed levels of the toxic chemicals that can cause brain damage and other health issues.
Mike Tyson punched out a fellow JetBlue passenger after he declined the former heavyweight boxing champ's offer of magic mushrooms on the flight, the passenger says in a lawsuit that looks to also hold the airline accountable for Tyson's behavior.
The Ridge Wallet Company, which sells plastic and metal wallets marketed to millennial and Gen Z men, accuses a company based out of Shenzhen, China, of selling knockoff "Ridge" wallets.
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