Public funds for religious charter school would be unconstitutional, Oklahoma...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped what would have been the first publicly funded religious charter school in the U.S., turning back conservatives and the state’s GOP...
View ArticleProject Veritas tells Ninth Circuit Oregon privacy law violates First...
SEATTLE (CN) — Project Veritas, a conservative media organization known for its undercover-style work, argued before an en banc panel at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday that an Oregon...
View ArticleJournalism preservation bill advances through California Legislature
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Artificial intelligence won’t chase a California lawmaker down the hall for a quote, but a flesh-and-blood journalist will. Matt Pearce, president of Media Guild of the West,...
View ArticleAntitrust class action against Disney over ESPN ‘carriage fees’ survives with...
(CN) — A federal judge trimmed a putative antitrust class action against Disney over the prices it charges streaming services to carry its ESPN channels on Tuesday, though he allowed significant parts...
View ArticleColoradans pick Lauren Boebert, Jeff Hurd to defend GOP strongholds against...
DENVER (CN) — Colorado primary voters on Tuesday chose an attorney from Grand Junction to defend the 3rd Congressional District from the determined and well-funded Democrat who narrowly lost two years...
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Centrist George Latimer unseats Rep. Jamaal Bowman in hotly anticipated New...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist Democrat defeated incumbent Congressman Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday in the Democratic primary election for the New...
View ArticleNOAA seeks data for microplastics mapping project
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is mapping microplastics in the world’s oceans, and it’s taking submissions. The tool, created by NOAA’s...
View ArticleA signature Biden law aimed to boost renewable energy. It also helped a solar...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As he campaigned for the presidency, Joe Biden promised to spend billions of dollars to “save the world” from climate change. One of the largest players in the solar industry was...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon trustees provide update on $8.8 billion restoration settlement
(CN) — Fourteen years since the Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 crew members and spilled more than 3 million barrels of unrefined oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the region is still dealing with...
View ArticleFrom DVF to ‘Star Wars,’ filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy charts her own path...
(AP) — Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s oeuvre defies simple categorization. She’s made documentaries about acid attack victims and child refugees. She’s focused her lens on the extraordinary life of...
View ArticleDisgraced Chicago tech star gets 7 1/2 years in prison
CHICAGO (CN) — Rishi Shah, co-founder of pharmaceutical advertising company Outcome Health and former darling of Chicago’s finance tech scene, received a 7 1/2-year sentence in federal court Wednesday...
View ArticleProsecutors rest Ozy Media case after investor recalls tear-filled call from...
BROOKLYN (CN) — Federal prosecutors on rested their case against Ozy Media and founder Carlos Watson on Wednesday after damning testimony from an investor who claimed Watson made flippant...
View ArticleNFL ridicules Sunday Ticket subscribers’ conspiracy claims as case goes to jury
LOS ANGELES (CN) — The National Football League scoffed at claims by former subscribers to DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket package that it secretly schemed to set inflated prices for the bundle as the...
View ArticleNinth Circuit blocks logging in Oregon’s Elliott State Forest, protecting...
(CN) — In a landmark decision, a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that prevents Scott Timber, a private logging company, from clearcutting old growth trees within Oregon’s...
View ArticleNorth Carolina legislature passes antisemitism definition measure
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — The North Carolina legislature passed a bill Wednesday night codifying the definition of antisemitism in state law, an action which activists claim will silence speech, but which...
View ArticleFederal judge rules against Alaska Indian Tribes in bid to take land back
(CN) — A federal judge, on Wednesday, ruled against the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska in their bid to take over a 787-sqaure-foot parcel of land in Juneau. That parcel, “an overflow...
View ArticleIn the face of bigger storms, engineers reconsider stormwater solutions
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota’s capital is playing host to a conference of hydrologists and other water scientists this week, and the importance of their work is plainly visible as flooding...
View ArticleMexico’s president-elect taps current officials, academics for cabinet positions
MEXICO CITY (CN) — Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday tapped five more officials, many of whom already hold secretary or undersecretary positions, to join her 20-member executive...
View ArticleOpenAI sued by Center for Investigative Reporting over AI plagiarism
(CN) — The United States’ oldest nonprofit newsroom sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York Thursday, accusing the tech companies of using copyrighted content to train...
View ArticleBack to Woodstock, with Wi-Fi: Women return after 55 years to glamp and...
BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent....
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