Amid a particularly uncompetitive presidential primary, two Congressional primaries in Oregon are raising questions about which issues are impacting elections in 2024.
When Trump's attorneys suggested Daniels has "a lot of experience making phony stories about sex," the ex-adult film star clapped back: "The sex in those films is very real, just like what happened in that room.”
AI systems have been shown to lie on their own, without first being programmed to do so. MIT's Peter Park says it's only the beginning.
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Aside from George Washington and Abe Lincoln, it’s difficult to argue that anyone made the peoples of the world admire and love the United States more than Mark Twain did.
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Subscribe for free here!With the foundational workers’ right of collective bargaining in decline, how long before working hours and conditions and fair wages evaporate as well?
The longstanding Senate tradition allowing home state senators to weigh in on the White House’s judicial picks has remained restricted to U.S. district court nominees — thanks to deepening political divisions in Washington.
California community colleges are crucial to the Golden State's economy, and they need state support to maintain gains for low-income students, researchers said in a report released Thursday.
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Texas wants to give state parkland to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. But the plan faces obstacles, including a lawsuit from the unrecognized Esto'k Gna tribe and other local activists.
CBP One, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection app, aims to digitize migrants' path towards asylum. Advocates say its long wait times put already vulnerable people in danger.
Despite warnings from politicians and experts about a growing birth deficit, some young Danes remain unenthused about the prospect of parenthood.
Courts & the Law
A challenge to last year's expansion of mail-in voting by prominent state Republicans failed at the appellate level.
A new law in Iowa makes it a state crime for noncitizens to reenter the United States after being removed. Violators could face deportation or up to 10 years in prison.
Nothing in state law, federal law or U.S. Supreme Court precedent bars states from requiring a witness to certify absentee ballots, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
X lost its attempt to claim that a data scraping company and its users cannot use accounts to find public data on its site and use it — in part because the Copyright Act preempts those claims.
Chrystul Kizer was set to go to trial in June before Thursday's plea deal was unexpectedly announced.
In a June 2023 complaint, more than a dozen former baseball scouts named 30 baseball teams that they said blacklisted players due to their age.
International Intrigue
Daily life in was paralyzed Thursday as workers went on strike in protest of President Javier Milei’s drastic austerity measures, some of which are being debated in Congress.
The small Swedish host to the continental song contest Eurovision warmed up to its second semifinals with both a large number of excited music contest fans and protesters decrying Israel’s participation in Thursday’s show.
Another MP defection from Conservative to Labour is salt in the wound for embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, though many Labour MPs aren’t happy about the move either.
Jurors convicted the former president on narco-conspiracy charges in March.
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Supporters of the change said the fixed-rate fee brings California utilities into line with many utilities in other states.
The bipartisan measure is aimed at giving workers who report age discrimination their day in court, barring companies from resolving such disputes using third-party arbitrators.
Three Republicans sent a letter to the president saying he has the power to unilaterally block the company’s $14.1 billion acquisition by Nippon Steel.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to throw out Biden's federal firearms charges, writing in their ruling that they could not consider Biden's appeals until a final judgment is reached at trial.
Hemp industry members say Congress specifically prohibited states from creating their own strict hemp regulations.
Jeff Fortenberry's previous conviction in California was overturned by the Ninth Circuit.
Judges questioned if officers had probable cause to charge and detain a Black minister and community leader for drug trafficking after all evidence pointed to his son.
Rulings
An appeals court in New York upheld a lower court’s finding that the protocols established by the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government violated the separation of powers doctrine. Agreeing with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s challenge to the commission, the court says that no matter how well intended, the law establishing the commission usurped the government’s executive power to enforce laws — in this case, on ethics — placing the power instead within an agency outside the executive’s control.
A federal court in Arizona permitted the attorneys general of almost all 50 states to proceed with their lawsuit against Avid Telecom and its executives, who have allegedly facilitated more than 24 billion robocalls in the United States. The attorneys general say billions of these calls were scams, and that the company has ignored the more than 300 notifications that its network is being used for such illegal robocalls.
The Seventh Circuit upheld an Illinois federal court’s decision to throw out most of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s claims on behalf of Black nursing home workers who say they worked in a racially hostile working environment. The appellate judges ruled that whatever insensitivity and harassment the employees faced at work, none of it rose to the level of pervasiveness or severity necessary to sustain the lawsuit.
The attorney general of California, Rob Bonta, announced that AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon will pay more than $10 million to the multistate coalition that sued the communications companies for using allegedly misleading advertisements. The settlement awaits approval from the court and will require the companies to hew closer to requirements about “unlimited” data plans, discounts on devices and other marketing terms.
A federal court in Texas dismissed the counterclaims brought by Louis Black, the co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest (SXSW), against a former employee who sued him for allegedly coercing her into sex and withholding her salary when she refused to marry him. His countersuit alleges that she stole “several valuable comic books and pulp magazines” from his garage, but the counterclaim is inappropriate because the legal questions in the suit and countersuit “contain no overlap.”
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Hot Cases
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.
The Ridge Wallet Company, which sells plastic and metal wallets marketed to millennial and Gen Z men, accuses a company based out of Shenzhen, China, of selling knockoff "Ridge" wallets.
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.
More than 250 people say the city of San Diego underfunded and neglected its storm drain system for years, causing their homes to flood on Jan. 22, 2024. They are asking for $100 million in damages.
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