Deadlocked Supreme Court won’t force Oklahoma to fund religious charter school
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Oklahoma charter school board cannot open the nation’s first religious charter school, the Supreme Court said on Thursday in an equally divided ruling. Splitting 4-4, the justices were forced to uphold a lower court ruling nixing St. Isidore of...
2 staff members of Israeli embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said. The two victims, a man and a...
Phoenix approves billion dollar police budget despite public protest
PHOENIX (CN) — Against strong public opposition, the Phoenix City Council voted to add $46 million to the police department’s billion dollar budget on the same day the Department of Justice revoked a probe finding a pattern and practice of civil rights violations. ...
Washington state defends ban on over-the-counter sexual assault kits
(CN) — Hoping to keep its ban on at-home sexual assault evidence collection kits in place, Washington state argued Wednesday to a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel that such kits exploit sexual assault victims when they are most vulnerable. The state’s House...
Judge strikes down federal rule requiring employers to accommodate abortions
(CN) — A Trump-appointed federal judge in Louisiana struck down a Biden-era regulation Wednesday that included abortion as a pregnancy-related condition employers are required to accommodate under federal law. U.S. District Judge David Joseph of the Western District...
Judge says faucets will continue flowing in small Alabama town while it disputes its water bill
DADEVILLE, Ala. (CN) — As many as 1,200 residents of the small town of Camp Hill, Alabama, would lose access to their household water supply this week if the town did not make a payment of at least $125,000, the city of Dadeville, which supplies the natural resource...
Feds maintain push for major Google breakup of internet search monopoly
WASHINGTON (CN) — Following the witness portion of the landmark antitrust trial over Google’s internet search monopoly, the Justice Department reaffirmed its position on Wednesday that a major breakup of the tech giant is necessary to restore competition to the online...
New York holds firm against Trump’s congestion pricing deadline
MANHATTAN (CN) — New York is pressing on with its first-in-the nation congestion pricing toll, despite the Trump administration demanding that the program be stopped by Wednesday. “As Governor Hochul has said time and again, congestion pricing is lawful — and...
ICE appeal over bond hearings for asylum seekers confounds Ninth Circuit
(CN) — A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struggled to get their heads around an appeal by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement relating to whether asylum seekers are entitled to a bond hearing while they are detained pending the outcome of their...