Calling protests a rebellion, Trump asks Supreme Court for help sending troops to Illinois
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Friday to intervene in support of his efforts to extinguish protests with military force, urging the justices to lift a lower court order barring the deployment of National Guard troops to the...
Wall Street scrapes off last week’s losses, boosted by Fed comments
MANHATTAN (CN) — Investors recouped some, but not all, of the losses from last week’s sell-off, as easing trade tensions and increasingly dovish comments from Federal Reserve officials kept equities afloat. It also helped that President Donald Trump backed off his...
Supreme Court shoots down vaccine opt-outs at California school
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court refused Friday to give religious parents an opt-out from a California school’s vaccine policy. The justices denied their request in a brief order without explanation. There were no noted dissents. We the Patriots, a...
California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The California attorney general filed a lawsuit against major single-use plastic bag manufacturers on Friday, after a statewide investigation found the sale of non-recyclable plastic bags violated several laws. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office...
Mercy no more: Man gets 29 years for robbing Brinks truck after compassionate release
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Southern California man who robbed a Brinks truck one year after a judge granted him compassionate release from federal prison — where he had served 27 years for a string of robberies — was sentenced to another 29 years behind bars on Friday....
Mongolia’s prime minister ousted after 4 months in ruling party feud
BEIJING (AP) — Mongolia’s parliament has voted to oust the prime minister in an unusually public power struggle within the ruling Mongolian People’s Party. Opponents of Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav managed to pass a controversially worded resolution...
Europe’s main center-left political group expels Slovak leader’s party for breaching its values
BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe’s main center-left political group on Friday kicked out the party of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is accused of cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and undermining the rule of law in his own country. The Party...
Israel received coffin of missing hostage handed over to Red Cross, prime minister’s office says
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The military wing of Hamas said it would hand over the remains of an Israeli hostage late Friday. The Qassam Brigades did not say whose remains would be handed over, only that they were pulled out earlier in the day. It did not say...
Russia convicts 15 captured Ukrainian soldiers on terrorism charges
(AP) — A court in southern Russia convicted 15 captured Ukrainian soldiers on terrorism charges Friday after a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law. The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 15 men from the Aidar battalion,...