Judge drops Mario Chalmers’ March Madness antitrust suit against NCAA
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit brought by Mario Chalmers and other prolific college basketball players against the NCAA. Chalmers, the former Kansas Jayhawk, filed the antitrust class action last year alongside 15...
10th Circuit finds EPA overlooked fracking emissions in Colorado air improvement plan
DENVER (CN) — The 10th Circuit on Monday remanded Colorado’s air quality plan back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after finding the government failed to account for air pollution generated during drilling and fracking in granting permits. “The EPA acted...
Massive blackout hits all of Spain and Portugal
MADRID (AFP) — Power went out across Spain and Portugal on Monday, halting train traffic, clogging roads and trapping people in elevators before electricity started to return to some areas after hours of disruption. As Spain’s government scrambled to find the...
Conclave starts May 7, cardinals say new pope must tackle abuse
VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis’s successor. Cardinals under the age of 80 will meet in the Sistine...
Slender Man stabber’s release delayed again after new detail surfaces
WAUKESHA, Wis. (CN) — A Waukesha County Circuit Court judge on Monday sent Wisconsin back to the drawing board on the conditional release plan of a woman who said Slender Man told her to stab her best friend 19 times in 2014. Morgan Geyser, 22, has been incarcerated...
Palestinian official tells ICJ Israel using aid blockage as ‘weapon of war’
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — A top Palestinian official told the International Court of Justice Monday that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza as a “weapon of war,” at the start of a week of hearings at the U.N.’s top...
Putin orders three-day truce in May but Ukraine asks ‘Why wait?’
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered a truce with Ukraine on May 8-10 to coincide with Moscow’s World War II commemorations, drawing ire from Ukraine which demanded Moscow pause hostilities immediately. The announcement came as the...
Hawaii’s Spam Jam transforms canned meat into cultural celebration
HONOLULU (CN) — Waikiki came alive with music, laughter and the sizzle of Spam Saturday evening as more than 30,000 visitors flocked to the annual Spam Jam, a festival celebrating Hawaii’s favorite canned delicacy with bold, unconventional eats. Spam — a processed...
Let this sink in
Are you obsessed with politics? Can you not get enough? If so, you need therapy. I’m not a therapist, however, so instead I’m going to help feed your addiction with a new game: Find the Politics. All you have to do is log on to the social media outlet of your choice...