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Please pardon a poor editor, but “upskill” is not a real word. I don’t care what Merriam-Webster says; it is not. Whatever adman who coined it, and whichever PR exec approved it, may upthrust it....
View ArticleDemocrats demand probe of $1 million giveaways from Elon Musk-aligned PAC
WASHINGTON (CN) — A pair of Senate Democrats on Friday implored the Justice Department to launch an investigation into a political action committee run by billionaire Elon Musk that has been awarding...
View ArticleTesla shareholders appeal securities case against Elon Musk
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Tesla shareholders argued Friday before the Ninth Circuit that jurors who heard their case against Tesla CEO Elon Musk earlier this year were improperly instructed. Investors...
View ArticleInternational student discrimination
SAN ANTONIO — A federal court in Texas allowed an international student’s national-origin discrimination claims to proceed against the University of Texas at San Antonio. His claims for sex and race...
View ArticleNLRB can’t tell Musk to delete tweet
NEW ORLEANS — In a rehearing en banc, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the National Labor Relations Board improperly ordered Elon Musk to delete a tweet that allegedly threatened to rescind stock options...
View ArticleLegal fight over Mississippi counting mail ballots after Election Day is revived
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit that challenges Mississippi’s practice of counting mailed absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up...
View ArticleClosing Arguments: Past issues
Closing Arguments is a weekly roundup of stories from courthouses across the U.S. and the world. Get the latest trial updates, find out which cases we’re tracking and listen to new episodes of our...
View ArticleCalifornia delays commercial Dungeness crab season
(CN) — The California Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday cited a large number of humpback whales and recent entanglements as the reason for the postponing the state’s commercial Dungeness crab...
View ArticlePotential jurors in Daniel Penny manslaughter trial probed on subway-riding...
MANHATTAN (CN) — The straphanging habits of everyday Manhattanites took center stage Friday at the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine facing charges of choking Jordan Neely to death on...
View ArticleApple to settle Apple Watch defect class action for $20 million
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge in Oakland granted on Friday preliminary approval for a class action settlement for $20 million over claims that multiple series of Apple Watches have a defect...
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Kamala Harris and Colin Allred highlight abortion, voting in 11th-hour...
HOUSTON (CN) — Vice President Kamala Harris drew a massive crowd at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas on Friday, just 11 days before Election Day, with the help of Houston’s own Beyoncé Knowles at...
View ArticleAutonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers...
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered...
View ArticleGeorgia appeals court declines to toss RICO charges against ‘cop city’ protester
ATLANTA (CN) — A Georgia appeals court denied a motion Monday to dismiss the case against one of the 61 activists accused of violating the state’s RICO law by participating in protests over Atlanta’s...
View ArticleSlight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species...
CALI, Colombia (AP) — Global efforts to protect the world’s plants and animals have made slight progress and some species remain in serious decline, according to two reports released Monday at a major...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Republicans ask Fourth Circuit to allow ballot eligibility...
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — Republicans want their case to have 225,000 North Carolina voters who filled out old voter registration forms cast provisional ballots and have their eligibility checked before...
View ArticleArizona defends protection of voter data in court
PHOENIX (CN) — Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes told a court Monday morning that a private list of names of registered voters who many not have provided documentary proof of citizenship does...
View ArticleViolence in Sinaloa surges despite increased militarization
MEXICO CITY (CN) — The first month of Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum’s term has been marred by violence, specifically in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, and much of it due to the fight...
View ArticleLasers help buried Maya city emerge from Mexican jungle
(CN) — Tulane University researchers uncovered sprawling, long-lost Maya settlements hidden deep in Mexico’s dense jungles using laser-guided technology, leading them to believe that there are untold...
View ArticleChurch must act faster against abusive priests: Papal commission
VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The Catholic Church must make it easier to remove priests who have abused minors, a Vatican commission said Tuesday in its first report on protecting children. The head of the...
View ArticleBerlin, EU vow response after Tehran executes German-Iranian
BERLIN (AFP) — Germany and the European Union on Tuesday strongly condemned Iran’s execution of a 69-year-old German-Iranian dissident after years behind bars and warned they were considering...
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