Luigi Mangione moves to dismiss murder, terrorism charges in New York
MANHATTAN (CN) — Luigi Mangione, the Maryland man accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December, on Thursday moved to dismiss his murder and terrorism charges in New York state. Mangione faces dueling prosecutions in the Thompson...
Prosecutors in Thailand say they won’t pursue royal defamation case against US scholar
BANGKOK (AP) — State prosecutors in Thailand announced Thursday that they don’t intend to press charges against an American academic arrested for royal defamation, an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The arrest last month of Paul Chambers, a...
Trump admin pushes Supreme Court to throw out protective status for Venezuelan migrants
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump called on the Supreme Court on Thursday to strip nearly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the U.S. of temporary protected status. The Justice Department accused a San Francisco judge of intruding into the nation’s...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to the Civil Rights Movement should be reconsidered. The...
California marks third year of decent Sierra snowpack
(CN) — For the third time in as many years, snowfall in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains stood at or above average as the rainy season comes to a close, giving the state a further reprieve from the severe drought conditions that have plagued the West Coast...
Feds, nonprofits quibble over numbers in court order to admit refugees
SEATTLE (CN) — As its bid to suspend the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program faces a legal challenge, the federal government offered a drastically low estimate of how many refugees it must admit to comply with a court order. That figure is 160 people who have been...
Scientists once thought only humans could bob to music. Ronan the sea lion helped prove them wrong
(AP) — Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits like “Boogie Wonderland.” “She just nails that one,” swaying...
Judge sympathetic to famous authors fighting Meta over AI
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Meta said at a summary judgment hearing Thursday morning that it did not violate copyright law when it used books from 13 acclaimed authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman and award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates to train its flagship AI...
Lawsuit over law site
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