Bankruptcy judge holds off on request to liquidate InfoWars’ parent company
HOUSTON (CN) — A federal bankruptcy judge declined to immediately shut down and liquidate Free Speech Systems, the parent company of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ InfoWars, as bankruptcy proceedings...
View ArticleNinth Circuit dismisses conservative journalist’s First Amendment lawsuit...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston was legally allowed to block a conservative journalist’s publication from his Twitter account. Susan...
View ArticleUS health officials advise using antibiotic as a ‘morning-after pill’ against...
NEW YORK (AP) — Some people should consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to try to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials recommended Tuesday. The Centers...
View ArticleMany Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden’s push, an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows....
View ArticleNinth Circuit orders new trial in antitrust case against major California...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel majority took a rare step Tuesday when it ordered a new trial after finding that a federal judge mishandled a sprawling class action...
View ArticleBrooklyn man arrested for involvement in NBA gambling scheme
BROOKLYN (CN) — A New York man accused of using insider knowledge to bet on NBA player Jontay Porter’s game performance was arraigned Tuesday for his involvement in the sports gambling scheme where...
View ArticleRate of global warming caused by humans is higher than ever
(CN) — Last year was the warmest year on record. And according to the second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, published on Tuesday, 2023 also saw the rate of climate change caused by...
View ArticleControversial immigration resolution to go to Arizona voters
PHOENIX (CN) — Arizona’s House of Representatives gave the final push to a controversial voter resolution that would establish illegal border entry as a state crime. Critics say the concurrent...
View Article11th Circuit upholds dismissal of excessive force claims against officers who...
ATLANTA (CN) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of an excessive force claim for money damages brought by the mother of a 26-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police...
View ArticleJudge orders Arizona Corrections to fill staffing vacancies in two prisons
PHOENIX (CN) — A federal judge ordered Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry on Tuesday to completely fill vacant positions at two state prisons, dismissing arguments that...
View ArticleU.S. Representative Andy Kim snags Democratic nomination for Senate in New...
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) — U.S. Representative Andy Kim secured the nomination on the Democratic side and will face off against a Republican developer in the fall in the race to win the Senate seat...
View ArticleFederal judge fines Colorado $1 for discriminating against Catholic schools...
DENVER (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday fined the Colorado Department of Early Childhood $1 after finding its new universal preschool program allowed schools to discriminate on the basis of religion....
View ArticleWisconsin warden and eight staff members charged following probes into inmate...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security Wisconsin prison and eight members of his staff were charged Wednesday following investigations into the deaths of four inmates over the past...
View ArticleAppeals court halts Trump’s Georgia case during appeal of order allowing...
ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge’s ruling allowing Fulton...
View ArticleIn coda to water billing scandal, California Supreme Court asked to weigh...
LOS ANGELES (CN) — In what may be one of the final codas to LA’s long and convoluted Department of Water and Power billing scandal, lawyers for PricewaterhouseCoopers asked the California Supreme...
View ArticleLife as a teen without social media isn’t easy. These families are navigating...
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — Kate Bulkeley’s pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. She watched the benefits pile up: She was getting excellent grades. She read lots of books. The...
View ArticleRights group accuses Israel of hitting residential buildings with white...
BEIRUT (AP) — A global human rights group accused Israel of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on residential buildings in at least five towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon,...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Democrats push for transparency in challenge to public records...
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — North Carolina Democrats are pushing for public record transparency after last year’s budget exempted lawmakers from public records laws and granted them the ability to sell and...
View ArticleActivists sue to block controversial immigration voter resolution from...
PHOENIX (CN) — Activists challenged the constitutionality of an Arizona ballot proposal they say violates the state’s single-subject law in a lawsuit filed against Arizona’s secretary of state...
View Article‘The man who conned the Pentagon’ can’t pursue lawsuit against FBI for...
(CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel agreed with a lower court’s ruling that a Nevadan dubbed “the man who conned the Pentagon” by Playboy magazine in 2010 and his wife can’t pursue a lawsuit against an FBI...
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