Worshippers return to restored Notre Dame for Easter rituals with emotion and...
PARIS (AP) — Four months after its long-awaited reopening, Notre Dame Cathedral welcomed worshippers and tourists alike on Friday for an emotional Easter ceremony centered on the Crown of Thorns, a...
View ArticleMarkets continue trend of one step forward, two steps back
MANHATTAN (CN) — The carousel of tariffs — as well as exceptions and delays to tariffs — continue to cause markets to wobble, with the latest uncertainty causing Wall Street to post another losing...
View ArticleACLU claims administration is restarting deportations under 18th century...
(AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked a federal judge to order the Trump administration not to deport any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law,...
View ArticleDue process before removal
BOSTON — A federal judge blocked the Department of Homeland Security from deporting noncitizens to countries where they have no prior ties without first providing them notice and a chance to raise...
View ArticleThe US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for...
View ArticleThe spectacle of mob violence in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (CN) — The video starts after the beating begins. Two young men’s faces are swollen and bloody; their bodies lie limp off the shoulder of the Ecatepec highway right outside Mexico’s...
View ArticleUnleashing American uncertainty
SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (CN) — At the crest of a small hill overlooking Soda Lake at the Carrizo Plain National Monument, the silence is palatable. Due to limited rainfall this past winter, the...
View ArticleBackpack patch trouble
DENVER — A student who was pulled out of his seventh-grade class for displaying several patches on his backpack, including a Firearms Policy Coalition patch with an image of a firearm and a patch...
View ArticleJudge denies San Diego mother has parental rights in claim child was tortured...
SAN DIEGO (CN) — The biological mother of an 11-year-old that prosecutors claim died after she was repeatedly tortured by her adoptive parents can’t pursue her own wrongful death and negligence claims...
View ArticleMigrants facing deportation ask Supreme Court to stand up to Trump
WASHINGTON (CN) — A group of Venezuelan men told the Supreme Court on Friday that the Trump administration planned to send them to prisons in El Salvador without a chance to challenge their removal,...
View ArticleDocumentary defamation
TAMPA — The creators of the documentary, “Finding Kendrick Johnson,” which explores the 2013 death of a high school student whose body was found inside an upright wrestling mat in his school’s gym,...
View ArticleMaryland parents tee up LGBTQ book ban at SCOTUS
WASHINGTON (CN) — Maryland parents hope to find a sympathetic audience at the Supreme Court next week to prevent their children from reading LGBTQ-inclusive books at school. Three sets of parents...
View ArticleFederal agencies ordered to issue correction notices that firings weren’t for...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge ruled late Friday that federal probationary employees suffered an irreparable injury when the Office of Personnel Management directed federal agencies in February...
View ArticleFederal judge declines to block summary deportations as DOJ says no imminent...
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge declined to issue an emergency order Friday evening that would block imminent decorations under the Alien Enemies Act, finding that he lacked such authority and that...
View ArticleFormer Congresswoman Barbara Lee surges ahead in tight Oakland mayor race
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Friday surged ahead of her opponent, moderate Democrat Loren Taylor, in the race for Oakland mayor with 53% of the vote counted so far to...
View ArticleFighter’s lawsuit against UFC over doping claims KO’d again by Ninth Circuit
(CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Tuesday that a former mixed martial artist can’t sue Ultimate Fighting Championship and its CEO, Dana White, over claims that it enables doping....
View ArticleRoad blocked for parents who claim school LGBTQ club turned their kids trans
DENVER (CN) — The 10th Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit brought by parents against a school district contesting a policy that they say discouraged staff from disclosing...
View ArticlePope Francis funeral set for Saturday; Trump to attend
PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — A funeral for Pope Francis will take place on Saturday in Rome with numerous religious and political leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump saying they will be in...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks Trump’s silencing of Voice of America
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge ordered the restoration of Voice of America and several other independent government-funded media outlets on Tuesday, finding that the Trump administration’s...
View ArticleMinnesota sues to stop Trump decrees on transgender sports ban
ST. PAUL (CN) — A lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota against President Donald Trump seeks to bar the enforcement of two executive orders he issued that seek to restrict the rights of transgender...
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