Several GOP lawmakers on the upper chamber’s Judiciary Committee refused to back White House nominees for the federal prosecutor’s office in Iowa despite pleas from the state’s Republican senators.
One juror asked to be excused over concerns about her identity being revealed to the public.
The high court will balance a city’s police power against the rights of the unhoused.
While the Danish military struggles to adapt to a changing security situation, recent exposés have cast doubts on whether Denmark can live up to its global role as a competent and reliable military ally.
A new buzzword is ringing in the halls of Brussels: competitiveness. European Union leaders are busy debating how to boost their industries and compete with the United States, China and Russia.
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On a tiny island in the East China Sea, a tsunami warning sends the population hustling to higher ground. The island lies next to an undersea fault in the earth’s crust and has seen the devastation that comes from a big shaker.
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Subscribe for free here!More than half of young Americans intend to vote in this year's presidential election, like in 2020, but Biden's popularity has taken a dip.
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Without the First Amendment, media, entertainment, arts and technology would look very different. But without copyright, there would be no incentive for a writer to get that manuscript published or a musician to get their song out there for the world to hear.
A group of Chinese immigrants living in Florida seeking to buy homes argue the law unconstitutionally discriminates against them based on their national origin.
Courts & the Law
The settlement caps a yearslong court battle over Google's location tracking.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican lawmaker did not rule out an effort to slow-roll White House judicial nominees as a retort to Democrats’ Supreme Court ethics probe.
Several countries have banned the controversial musician Philipp Kirkorov, and Ukraine sanctioned him for his support of the Russian invasion.
A lab employee mistakenly used hydrogen peroxide to clean an incubator, killing dozens of embryos.
A public defender asked the appeals court to consider whether his client’s past crime of carrying an unlicensed firearm should rob him of the right to bear arms.
The panel of judges ruled that the department must allow monitored phone contact for paroled sex offenders and their kids.
One case challenged who gets defined as a sex offender, while another raised questions about where sex offenders can feasibly live while on supervised release.
The charges against the president's son are related to his 2018 purchase of a gun while he was using drugs.
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The timeline lays out the Hawaii and Maui County's emergency response, which has been criticized in the wake of the wildfires.
Already facing state charges for improperly disposing of bodies at the Back to Nature Funeral Home, the Colorado couple has also been charged with federal wire fraud.
Another bill, which would have prohibited restaurants from giving single-use cups to customers who dine in, failed.
Disputes of fact as to whether contaminated stormwater actually flowed into a Sacramento River tributary precluded summary judgment, a federal judge ruled.
Conservationists say salmon hatcheries on the Columbia River are harming wild fish populations and the species that need them for food.
The Golden State looks to begin capping the amount of the toxic hexavalent chromium in treated drinking water following a vote from state regulators.
Brian Lightfoot, one of two remaining defendants in a case involving claims that antifa protesters were involved in a criminal conspiracy to attack right-wing protesters, testified in a San Diego court on Wednesday.
Property owners filed suit after the state health department found outsize cancer rates in the neighborhood of Acreage to be associated with radioactive contamination.
The procedural maneuver gives lawmakers and the governor another month to iron out the state budget details.
Rulings
An appeals court in Washington vacated the trial court’s sentencing of a high school shooter who killed one student and seriously injured three others at Freeman High School. Down from 40 years to life, he should be sentenced to 25 to life, because he was 15 years old at the time of the crime.
A federal court in Louisiana dismissed 19 states’ challenges to a new immigration procedure that changes the way asylum applications are considered after a “credible fear” determination is made. Louisiana and Florida do not have standing to challenge the process, and the other states abandoned their claims.
A federal court in Pennsylvania denied a group of Black and Hispanic children’s motion for class certification in this case alleging the kids suffered racial discrimination when they visited Sesame Place Philadelphia. The proposed class of 130 members failed to meet the numerosity requirement for certification because the number of kids alleged to have faced discrimination is speculative.
A federal court in Maryland partially dismissed consumers’ fraud class action against Bimbo Bakeries, whose Entenmann’s-branded “All Butter” cake allegedly misleads buyers because it is made with artificial and not real butter. The court says reasonable consumers would need more info than the label to determine whether the phrase referred to the ingredients or the flavor of the cake. Their remaining state law claims are preempted by federal law.
The Fifth Circuit ruled that a Texas court improperly denied an inmate’s motion for compassionate release. She has a malignant brain tumor, and the court did not give the necessary “specific factual reasons for its decision.” The record is insufficient to review the inmate’s claim that she suffers from terminal cancer and has received inadequate care in prison.
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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.
Those who are arrested in Travis County aren't provided a counsel for initial bail hearings, one such arrestee says in a class action that accuses the county of creating a "two-tier" system that favors those who can afford to hire an attorney.
Nassau County sued the state of New York over the shift of elections from odd to even years, claiming that doing so shaves a year off the terms of officials elected after enactment.
Jeremy Foster died two days after a Home Depot security guard tased and aggressively tried to detain him when he tried to shoplift building materials, Foster's brother charges in a negligence and wrongful death suit.
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