Small island nations that say their very way of life is threatened by climate change brought the request for an opinion.
Trump didn't respond on Tuesday to reporters' questions about why he didn't testify in his own defense.
Lawmakers cited reports that an upside-down American flag, a symbol co-opted by the “Stop the Steal” movement, flew outside the Supreme Court justice’s home in the days after the Capitol riot.
The World Wildlife Fund, in collaboration with Danish tattoo artists, wants to raise awareness for the more than 44,000 animal species face that face extinction threat.
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Baja was a magical place when I was growing up, where great ships had foundered, and blocks of onyx and whale skeletons emerged from the sand, and the creatures of land and sea ruled.
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Subscribe for free here!In Texas, tight GOP races at the state and national level underscore patterns of polarization seen throughout the party.
The legislation comes months after an Alabama court issued a controversial ruling holding that frozen embryos used for in vitro fertilization procedures could be legally defined as children.
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One bill would increase penalties against social media companies in lawsuits. The other would prohibit children from receiving addictive feeds.
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is challenging a ruling that protected sensitive drilling data for ConocoPhillips’ Willow project on the North Slope.
Michael Miller sued Crested Butte Mountain Resort in 2022 after his daughter became paralyzed when she fell from a ski lift.
In a June 2023 complaint, more than a dozen former baseball scouts named all 30 MLB teams, which they said blacklisted the scouts due to their age.
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Over 2,600 hospitals — approximately a third of the nation's facilities — participate in the 340B program, which provides discounted drugs to low-income and uninsured patients.
The pilot program must start before September, with a status report to follow mid-next year.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced the grant program in Southwest Philadelphia, where $2 million will go toward cleaning a brownfield blighting the region's majority-Black community.
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A federal court in Texas found in favor of gun owners’ associations and the state, which sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms over a new rule that expands the definition of a firearms “dealer” and will require all gun sellers to be federally licensed. Their request for a temporary injunction against the enforcement of the new rule is granted.
A federal court in Arkansas denied a county library board’s motion to dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit challenging its policy removing all LGBTQ-themed books from children’s sections. Factual questions over the organization of the library’s collection remain.
A federal court in Nevada granted a marijuana vape pen investor’s motion to compel foreign discovery. The investor wants to file a lawsuit in Canada against the operator of an alleged Ponzi scheme that defrauded him of $4.6 million. The proposed litigation is not speculative because the scheme operator has already pleaded guilty to a civil Securities and Exchange Commission complaint and a criminal complaint.
A federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed the wrongful death and negligence claims brought against a county by a married couple whose unborn daughter died after an ambulance took over an hour to arrive during the wife’s medical emergency. Their claims do not sustain a constitutional violation, and without this, their state law questions are not appropriate for the federal court to consider.
An appeals court in Pennsylvania partially reversed the trial court’s denial of the state’s request to present an accident reconstructionist at trial. The criminal defendant says his late wife drowned and died accidentally after they flipped off an ATV while riding through a creek, but the reconstructionist says this is impossible because if defendant were also on the vehicle, his injuries would be significantly worse.
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A public library's policy banning new books about sex — and stopping anyone under 17 from accessing current titles about gender and sexuality — violates kids' First Amendment rights, Read Freely Alabama says.
Port of Oakland commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to change the name of Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport — and slapped SFO with a counterclaim in their ongoing trademark dispute.
A Texas couple says their rented home was infested with bats, unbeknownst to them, which they discovered after investigating bug bites that turned out to be where bat bugs had burrowed into their skin. They say in a lawsuit they developed a lung infection and the homeowner evicted them rather than remove the bats.
The U.S. Justice Department hit the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with a lawsuit after a prison clerk complained she was barred from wearing a head covering for religious reasons.
A Jewish, disabled veteran, who is a resident of Davis, California, is suing the University of California-Davis, claiming a pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s quad violates his equal protection rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title VI.
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