A new study done with fruit flies shows blue light — the highest energy light we can see — affects cell function.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Wednesday to the country's first vaccine update.
The president said that getting rid of mandatory pretrial detention will only cause more judicial corruption, but legal experts said that it will likely benefit those López Obrador claims to champion: the poor.
Making oxygen on Mars means scientists are "way ahead of the game" for future manned missions to the red planet.
The final day of the legislative session saw lawmakers tackling the biggest issues facing the state, from climate change and abortion to incarceration reform.
Litigation privilege doomed the lawsuit, though the judge said criminal prosecution or state bar discipline remain open avenues.
Mary Peltola edged out the former governor in Alaska's new ranked choice voting system.
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Despite admitting to persistent safety lapses on its platform, Lyft has done nothing to protect drivers and passengers from beatings, rapes and sexual assaults, attorneys for more than a dozen victims said Wednesday.
The Ninth Circuit panel indicated they'd already affirmed dismissal of basically the same case, except this one has a new plaintiff.
Out-of-state bullion dealers can't be made to register and maintain bonds, a three-judge panel found.
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A Wisconsin Supreme Court decision this summer cast doubt on disabled voters’ ability to get assistance to vote absentee, but federal law guarantees such protections, the judge said.
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Ahead of upcoming national elections, the governing Social Democratic Party has presented 30 proposals for stricter sentencing on organized crime activities. The legislative package focuses on prevention rather than acts of violence.
Undertaking its regular review of the United States’ obligations under a treaty aimed at eliminating race discrimination, the U.N. expressed concern over a rise in hate crimes, lack of access to reproductive rights and racial disparities in the justice system.
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The DOJ says records kept in a Mar-a-Lago storage room had been removed from the property.
Federal law enforcement also found hundreds of sexually graphic photos on his work cellphone.
A bystander says her injuries were barely mentioned in a state's attorney's report of when Baltimore police made a fatal 2019 confrontation with an armed gunman who shot at their own.
Environmentalists and fishermen argue a permit for a liquified natural gas terminal along the Texas coast violates the Clean Water Act because the project will destroy hundreds of acres of wetlands.
The heirs of two Holocaust victims reached the end of the road in their quest to take control of the Guelph Treasure, a collection of 42 religious artifacts said to have once belonged to Adolf Hitler.
Organizers are determined to proceed with the effort in the Cornhusker State in the face of repeated setbacks.
A Texas provider of milling machines to make guns said a new California law that criminalizes the use of its equipment violates the Second Amendment.
Rulings
A Texas appellate court allowed a defamation lawsuit brought by the guardian of a regional millionaire’s estate to proceed against Netflix, whose show Dirty Money allegedly falsely depicted the guardian as an exploitative abuser siphoning money from her granduncle.
A federal judge in Kentucky ruled that Louisville’s “Fairness Ordinance” cannot be enforced specifically against a photographer and her website. The photographer says she does not want to be forced by law, for religious and moral reasons, to photograph same-sex weddings.
A federal judge in California allowed four dogecoin investors’ class-action false advertising claim to proceed against the administrator of a $1.2 million sweepstakes that, they believed, required Coinbase users to buy and sell dogecoin in order to participate in.
The Second Circuit dismissed a lawsuit, brought by 104 parents or guardians of disabled children, claiming the shift from in-person learning to remote classes in 2020 deprived children in school districts across the nation of a free, appropriate public education. The plaintiffs did not exhaust their administrative remedies before suing.
The Fifth Circuit struck a 2019 Texas law that allows only companies with existing power lines in the state to build new lines, finding it violates the commerce clause.
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Rachel Williams, the woman who helped organize the sting that took down social grifter Anna Sorokin, hit Netflix with a federal defamation complaint for portraying her as a villain in its “Inventing Anna” series.
An uncle of Jacob Blake, the Black man whose shooting by police sparked protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, two years ago, claims he was strapped to an emergency restraint chair for nearly seven hours after county authorities arrested him during a silent protest in April 2021.
The widow and surviving sisters of a Marine killed in combat brought a federal defamation complaint against Alec Baldwin, who previously donated $5,000 to a GoFundMe for the family. Facing online threats now after the actor used his Instagram feed to out one of the sisters as an insurrectionist who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the family seeks $25 million in damages.
E-tail behemoth Amazon has been hit with a gender discrimination lawsuit which says its fulfillment centers are tailored for men, making it difficult for women to reach some items.
Amplify Energy and two subsidiaries agreed to plead guilty to Clean Water Act violations — and pay $13 million — for the 25,000-gallon crude oil spill that fouled Orange County beaches in 2021.
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