The Trump administration on Tuesday abruptly withdrew its plan to require foreign college students to leave the country if they are taking online-only classes, just a week after announcing it.
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Calling it possible that the clearing of protesters outside the White House last month was illegal, the ACLU urged Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday to appoint a special prosecutor.
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MANHATTAN (CN) — Shredding an $18 million proposed settlement with the convicted producer’s former studio, a federal judge called it
Read moreMiami sued Miami-Dade County in state court for its “refusal to provide for adequate early voting sites in the city’s predominantly Hispanic-American neighborhoods.”
Read moreYvonne Nkrumah, a 13-year officer of The World Bank in Washington, D.C., sued Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in federal court for ordering her to return to Ghana, without due process, at a time when Ghana’s borders are closed even to Ghanian citizens because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a little girl struck by a stray bullet, Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and the New York-based Innocence Project said Monday.
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New Mexico has sued the New Mexico Civil Guard and 14 of its members in state court, claiming the militia group helped incite a shooting at a peaceful protest in June.
Read moreA federal judge in Maryland Monday ruled that women seeking an abortion pill do not need to visit a clinic, hospital or medical office in person to obtain the medication during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The lingering effects of school segregation, which largely ended in Arizona in the 1950s, still echo through the courts more than four decades after a Hispanic mother claimed Tucson’s school district was “tri-ethnic,” offering a very different experience for Black, Hispanic and white students.
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Attorneys for the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death objected to a gag order Monday, arguing that one attorney’s comments to the media about evidence he thought should be made public were harmless.
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A federal judge in Georgia ruled Monday that a state law outlawing abortions after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks of pregnancy, is unconstitutional.
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The Third Circuit revived a federal class action Monday over the stench of a Pennsylvania landfill affecting some 20,000 people.
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An Israeli court has rejected a request to strip the controversial Israeli spyware firm NSO Group of its export license over the suspected use of the company’s technology in targeting journalists and dissidents worldwide.
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A Malaysian news site’s chief editor was taken to court for alleged contempt Monday over readers’ comments on the portal, with his lawyer warning the case could have a “chilling effect.”
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Seventeen states and the District of Columbia brought a massive federal complaint Monday over the Trump administration’s new rule requiring foreign students to take classes in person, not just online, to stay in the country during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hours before Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to go to the lethal injection chamber, a federal judge on Monday stopped the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal execution in 17 years.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit Friday considered whether the Trump administration’s asylum ban could apply to those “metered” at ports of entry and waiting their turn to enter the United States when the ban went into effect last year, a decision which could determine whether an estimated 26,000 people will get their day in Immigration Court.
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Once a city with ample opportunity for upward mobility, Houston’s welcome mat is fraying with home prices rising beyond the reach of the working class. And the American Dream is slipping fastest from the hands of Black Houstonians.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of First Amendment and Equal Protection claims against University of California officials brought by a woman whose plans to attend a speech by far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley were thwarted by protests. The woman’s battery claim against one of the protesters, however, was improperly dismissed.
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Depp Says Feces in Bed Was Last Straw in Marriage To Heard
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