Closing Arguments: Past issues
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View Article‘I wanted to be in the good grace of the senator,’ Menendez co-defendant...
MANHATTAN (CN) — The only co-defendant who took a plea deal in Bob Menendez’s bribery trial testified Friday he agreed to pay a quarter million dollars to get the New Jersey senator to “stop and kill”...
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Emergence convergence: Illinois summer starts with cicada celebrations
CHICAGO (CN) — Domingo Dominguez carefully pins a dead cicada onto a piece of foam board. It’s Friday night in Chicago, and in the basement of a small taxidermy and nature museum called the Insect...
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Pacific Islanders converge in Hawaii for cultural exchange fest
HONOLULU (CN) — Thousands flocked to the Hawaii Convention Center on Thursday for the opening of the 13th Festival of the Pacific Arts, where over the next 10 days, more than 2,200 delegates from 27...
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EU election uncertainty looms over celebration of global unity in France
PARIS (CN) — President Joe Biden rounded out his state visit to France after a multi-day trip that spanned from Paris to Normandy, brought together 25 global heads of state, and promoted cross-border...
View ArticleRaytheon accused of age discrimination over job openings limited to recent...
(CN) — RTX Corporation, formerly known as Raytheon, discriminates against older applicants in its hiring practices for positions aimed at recruiting recent college graduates, one such applicant claims...
View ArticleOff-road vehicles in coastal marten habitats prompt lawsuit against US Forest...
EUGENE, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the United States Forest Service of failing to protect threatened coastal martens from the detrimental effects of...
View ArticleAstronauts’ kidneys would be permanently damaged by a round trip to Mars,...
(CN) — Elon Musk has said he plans to send a manned space flight to Mars in 2029. The mission presents numerous technological hurdles. But there could be another challenge, one that even Musk hasn’t...
View ArticleSenate Dems to press forward with Supreme Court ethics legislation, but...
WASHINGTON (CN) — Senate Democrats are expected Wednesday to try to push through legislation aimed at forcing the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt an enforceable code of ethics — but the bill is all but...
View ArticleSixth Circuit urged to revive challenges to Michigan’s LGBTQ protections
(CN) — A Christian health care provider and two Catholic parishes argued before the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday that their trio of lawsuits challenging Michigan’s anti-discrimination law were improperly...
View ArticlePackaged food distributor faces consumer class action over industrial...
CHICAGO (CN) — Three seafood consumers filed a federal class action against Conagra Brands in Chicago on Tuesday, accusing the Fortune 500 company of “short weighting” its frozen fish products. The...
View ArticleFederal judge tosses Biden administration’s Title IX guidance aimed at...
FORT WORTH, Texas (CN) — A federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX as prohibiting discrimination in education based on sexual orientation and...
View ArticleBill restricting public masking clears North Carolina legislature
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — The North Carolina House passed a controversial bill addressing both masking and campaign finance Tuesday despite public protest. The bill originally centered around removing the...
View ArticleCalifornia Forever’s plan to build city from scratch qualifies for November...
(CN) — Election officials in Northern California announced Tuesday afternoon that a campaign to construct a new city from the ground up in Solano County gathered enough valid signatures to qualify for...
View ArticleMad at Madonna
LOS ANGELES — Concertgoers say in a class action that Madonna and Live Nation deceptively sold them tickets to a show without warning them that the pop icon would be hours late and lip synching, the...
View ArticleRepublicans challenge party expenditure limits at Sixth Circuit
CINCINNATI (CN) — The full Sixth Circuit will determine whether changes in the political landscape allow it to overrule Supreme Court precedent regarding limits on coordinated party spending in...
View ArticleHouse approves Garland contempt resolution, rising above Democrats’ fury
WASHINGTON (CN) — House Republicans on Wednesday pushed through a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress in yet another drastic attempt to hamstring the Biden...
View ArticleDisney asks judge to toss out Elon Musk-backed lawsuit by former...
LOS ANGELES (CN) — Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday asked a federal judge to throw out the Elon Musk-funded wrongful termination lawsuit by actress Gina Carano, who was dropped from “The Mandalorian”...
View ArticleIrrigators clash with US government and Yurok Tribe over Klamath water rights...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) —The Klamath Water Users Association, along with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other plaintiff appellants asked a Ninth Circuit appeals panel Wednesday morning to reverse...
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Western US faces snow drought as summer heats up
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Another winter without enough snow and rain has left much of the western United States parched for water, according to scientists monitoring a snow drought. Thanks to...
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