UAW files objection to Mercedes vote, accuses company of intimidating workers
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The United Auto Workers on Friday accused Mercedes of interfering in a union election at two Alabama factories by intimidating and coercing workers into voting no. A week after...
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The Utah Court of Appeals allowed a reporter for the Utah Investigative Journalism Project to see unredacted expenditure reports from a state contractor and hunting lobbyist,...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a condo resident’s negligence lawsuit against the owners of an underground storage tank, which leaked gas into her sewer system;...
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NEW ORLEANS, La. — A federal court in Louisiana granted the sheriff of Orleans Parish’s motion to dismiss a fired correctional officer’s claim that his due process rights were violated because he was...
View ArticleCalifornia’s fiscal watchdog sees positive signs in deficit reduction
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California Governor Gavin Newsom’s revised budget has helped some of the Golden State’s budget woes, though financial problems continue to loom on the horizon, the state...
View ArticlePittsburgh clerk takes first loss in Courthouse News case
Court proceedings take the first slot in the evening newscast on any given night lately. But a hardcore group of court clerks still keep new cases secret when they first cross into court. The...
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Sometimes you just can’t win. I thought that maybe my alma mater, Northwestern University, had gotten it right when it negotiated with protesters on campus and everyone seemed sort of happy. The...
View ArticleBureau of Land Management cannot harvest spotted owl habitat for fire...
(CN) — An Oregon magistrate judge issued a recommendation on Friday that could omit commercial timber sales from a federal fire resilience and forest restoration plan in southern Oregon. The findings...
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Texas’ largest comic convention returns, drawing diverse crowd of fans
HOUSTON (CN) — For Erin Stahmer, a cosplayer who works by day as a video editor at a marketing company, it’s not the celebrities who have kept him coming back to Houston’s Comicpalooza. Rather, the...
View ArticleA date with disenfranchisement? Lawsuit challenges Pennsylvania law rejecting...
(CN) — A group of Pennsylvania voting rights organizations are suing state and county officials in an effort to overturn a law that prevents undated and incorrectly dated mail-in ballots from being...
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Certain environments set the mood for coral sex
(CN) — Researchers worked hard to figure out how corals have sex. University of Tokyo scientists knew some of the basics. Corals are animals with branching shapes or waving tendrils that reproduce...
View ArticleHollywood movies rarely reflect climate change crisis. These researchers want...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Aquaman might not mind if the oceans rise, but moviegoers might. That’s one of the takeaways from a new study conducted by researchers who set out to determine if today’s...
View ArticleInvestor witness says he lost $30,000 to Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui
MANHATTAN (CN) — A former supporter of Guo Wengui said Tuesday he spent over $100,000 investing in the exiled Chinese billionaire’s ventures, which were advertised as a movement against the Chinese...
View ArticleNew Jersey and wind farm developer Orsted settle claims for $125M over...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Danish wind farm developer Orsted will pay New Jersey $125 million to settle claims over the company’s cancellation of two offshore wind farms last year — a little over a...
View ArticleSupreme Court leaves in place Avenatti conviction for plotting to extort up...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place lawyer Michael Avenatti’s conviction for plotting to extort up to $25 million from Nike. The justices did not comment in rejecting an...
View ArticleRapper Sean Kingston agrees to return to Florida, where he and mother are...
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston on Tuesday waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Florida, where he...
View ArticleUS vows more returns of looted antiquities as Italy celebrates latest haul of...
ROME (AP) — Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at 60 million euros ($65...
View ArticleOpenAI forms safety committee as it starts training latest artificial...
(AP) — OpenAI says it’s setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot. The San Francisco startup said...
View ArticleAmazon must face FTC lawsuit over hard-to-cancel Prime membership
(CN) — Amazon.com failed to persuade a federal judge to toss a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that accuses the online retailer and three of its executives of tricking shoppers into signing up for a...
View ArticleEnergy Department provides additional $12.1 million for clean energy projects
WASHINGTON (CN) — The U.S. Department of Energy has provided another $12.1 million to support energy-saving projects in public facilities and low-income homes in 27 states. The money comes from the...
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