Texas sues Biden administration over voter citizenship info
(CN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, claiming the Biden administration is unlawfully withholding information on the citizenship...
View ArticleIsrael accuses 6 Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of being Palestinian militants
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli army on Wednesday accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups. Al...
View ArticleTurkey strikes Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria following deadly...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defense company that killed five...
View ArticleHurricane Helene damage in North Carolina exceeds $50 billion
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — Initial estimates of hurricane damage in North Carolina come to at least $53.6 billion, as the state begins to evaluate the cost to meet needs, repair damage and recover from a...
View ArticleConservationists demand ban on ‘cyanide bombs’ in national forests
WASHINGTON (CN) — A environmental coalition urged the U.S. Forest Service to ban the use of so-called cyanide bombs in national forests on Wednesday, arguing that the traps continue to inhumanely kill...
View ArticleRFK Jr’s flip-flopping ballot access fight goes second round at SCOTUS, this...
WASHINGTON (CN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to remove his name from Wisconsin’s presidential ballots, claiming that his support for former President Donald Trump is being...
View ArticleIRS says Arizona can’t challenge federal tax on family rebate
PHOENIX (CN) — The Internal Revenue Service defended its decision to tax Arizona’s 2023 Family Tax Rebate Wednesday, moving to dismiss a lawsuit from the state claiming violations of federal law and...
View ArticleCalifornia appeals court widens scope of win for environmental group that...
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. (CN) — A California appellate court panel Wednesday partially reversed a lower court’s decision over the denial of a Lake County luxury resort development, but the project will...
View ArticleTensions escalate in Bob Lee murder trial as prosecutors grill suspect’s sister
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — In exchanges that sometimes grew testy, prosecutors attempted to discredit Khazar Momeni’s testimony about what happened in the days and hours before Bob Lee, the founder of Cash...
View ArticleBoeing union rejects contract, will continue strike
SEATTLE (CN) — Boeing machinists Wednesday voted to reject a new contract offer and continue their strike, which has lasted for more than six weeks. The machinists needed a 50% plus one majority to...
View ArticleTropical storm battering Philippines leaves at least 24 people dead in...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Widespread flooding and landslides set off by a tropical storm in the northeastern Philippines on Thursday left at least 24 people dead, swept away cars and prompted...
View ArticleCalifornia judge appoints doctors to evaluate accused Davis stabber after...
WOODLAND, Calif. (CN) — Two doctors appointed Thursday will evaluate a former UC Davis student accused of fatally stabbing two people and injuring a third, and who last week pleaded not guilty by...
View ArticleSan Francisco courtroom clerks strike, claiming unfair labor practices
SAN FRANCISCO (CN)—San Francisco Superior Court clerks launched a strike Thursday after negotiations broke down with their management amid accusations of chronic understaffing and lack of training in...
View ArticleCan an elephant sue to leave a zoo? Colorado’s top court must now decide
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law....
View ArticleFeds remove red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered species list
(CN) — Federal wildlife officials removed the red-cockaded woodpecker from the endangered species list, a decision some conservationists feared came prematurely. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
View ArticleMeta can’t dodge schools’ negligence claims over student addiction to...
(CN) — Meta must face at least some of the claims by school districts that the company is liable for children’s purported addiction to its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms, a federal...
View ArticleJurors hear first wiretap recordings in Mike Madigan corruption trial
CHICAGO (CN) — A federal jury in Chicago listened to dozens of clips from FBI wiretaps Thursday in the ongoing corruption trial of Mike Madigan, former Speaker for the Illinois House of...
View ArticleDOJ secures $102 million settlement for Maryland bridge destruction
BALTIMORE (CN) — The owner and operator of the boat that destroyed Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March agreed Thursday to pay over $100 million to the federal government. “Nearly seven...
View ArticleJudge takes up Colorado’s antitrust claims against Kroger-Albertsons merger
DENVER (CN) — With the close of a three-week trial on Thursday, a Denver judge will now decide whether the proposed merger between grocer giants Kroger and Albertsons violates Colorado’s antitrust...
View ArticleCleveland Browns challenge ‘Modell Law’ created to keep team in Cleveland
(CN) — A disagreement over where the Cleveland Browns should be located has entered federal court after the NFL team filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Cleveland for trying to enforce a...
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