Feds defend high-speed internet regulation before Sixth Circuit
CINCINNATI (CN) — Multiple internet service provider associations on Thursday called the Federal Communication Commission’s “Open Internet” order a “power grab” that handcuffs their businesses with...
View ArticleLouisiana’s new law on abortion drugs establishes risky treatment delays,...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as “controlled dangerous substances” was challenged in a state court lawsuit Thursday by a physician, a...
View ArticleGuru free of assault claims
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon threw out claims against the founder of a yoga and meditation center from a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted and exploited by the spiritual...
View ArticleEx-Disney worker accused of hacking computer menus to add profanities, errors
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former worker hacked servers at Walt Disney World after being fired in order to manipulate computer menus by changing prices, adding profanities and altering notifications to...
View ArticleInspired by Harris, many Black sorority and fraternity members are helping...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes isn’t a member of the historically Black sororities and fraternities known as the “Divine Nine.” But throughout her hotly contested reelection campaign...
View ArticleDonald Trump sues CBS for $10 billion over ‘doctored’ Kamala Harris interview
(CN) — Donald Trump sued CBS Thursday, claiming $10 billion in damages and accusing CBS News of airing two different versions of the answer Vice President Kamala Harris gave to a question about...
View ArticleSleep drug approval
WASHINGTON — Jazz Pharmaceuticals lost its bid to overturn the approval of another company’s rival sleep drug when a D.C. federal judge ruled that the FDA did not violate the Orphan Drug Act when...
View ArticleBill Clinton calls on Wisconsin church members to vote for their children’s...
MILWAUKEE (CN) — Former President Bill Clinton called on community members to vote for their children’s future at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday. “I am honored to do right by my...
View ArticleA word from the Republican National Committee
These extraterrestrial quadrupeds have been playing us for fools. And the Democrat Party has let them get away with it for far too long, without so much as a “Sit! Heel! Beg!” Unkempt beings with...
View ArticleHurricanes, strike cast a pall over October jobs report
(CN) — The U.S. economy throttled back slightly in October with employment up just 12,000 jobs after an unexpectedly robust gain of 254,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate was unchanged...
View ArticleBotswana’s praised peaceful transition to opposition
GABORONE, Botswana (AFP) — The orderly handover of power unfolding in Botswana after an astonishing election result that broke the ruling party’s 58-year grip on power has won praise for its...
View ArticleLibertarian Party of Colorado sues to remove secretary of state following...
DENVER (CN) — The Libertarian Party of Colorado called for the removal of the state’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold from office in a lawsuit filed on Friday, citing an incident where her...
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 ArticleIowa defends plan to challenge voters’ citizenship
DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) — Iowa state officials urged a federal judge not to block county election officials from challenging the ability of more than 2,000 Iowans identified by the state as possible...
View ArticleEx-Trump lawyer license woes
ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York appellate court indefinitely suspended the law license of Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who worked for the Trump campaign and pleaded guilty to a felony count of conspiracy to...
View ArticleSouth Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that...
View ArticleNew York judge drops massive pollution lawsuit against PepsiCo brought by state
MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York judge blasted state Attorney General Letitia James’ pollution lawsuit against PepsiCo as “predatory” in his ruling to dismiss the state’s 2023 complaint, which targeted the...
View ArticleElon Musk can’t dodge claims that he fired former Twitter execs to avoid...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge ruled Friday that Elon Musk must face claims from four former Twitter executives who say Musk terminated them without cause, because he didn’t want to pay the...
View ArticleInside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read...
View ArticleNorth Korea boasts of ‘the world’s strongest’ missile, but experts say it’s...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea boasted Friday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts...
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