BHP, Vale cleared by Brazil court over 2015 dam disaster
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — A Brazilian court on Thursday cleared mining giants BHP and Vale, and their Brazilian joint venture Samarco, of responsibility over a 2015 dam collapse that caused the country’s...
View ArticleKey witness in Mike Madigan corruption trial wraps six days of testimony
CHICAGO (CN) — Week six of ex-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s corruption trial concluded Thursday with Fidel Marquez, once energy company ComEd’s vice president for governmental and external...
View ArticleNima Momeni says Bob Lee attacked him over a bad joke, leading to stabbing
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — During combative cross-examination Thursday, a government prosecutor grilled Nima Momeni, a tech worker accused of stabbing and killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in April 2023,...
View ArticleCalifornia Coastal Commission reluctantly approves San Francisco seawall project
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Caught between the possibility of hundreds of thousands of people losing the ability to flush their toilets and an eroding beach, the California Coastal Commission begrudgingly...
View ArticleDriverless car company admits to lying about pedestrian crash, but escapes...
(CN) — The autonomous car company Cruise agreed on Thursday to pay a criminal fine of $500,000 to resolve charges that it provided falsified records to federal investigators about a gruesome 2023...
View ArticleX Corp. sues California over online election deception law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — As another part of a handful of lawsuits challenging new California laws that target misinformation online, X Corp. sued the California attorney general and secretary of...
View ArticleOregon Supreme Court considers dispute over non-disparagement clause in...
(CN) — The Oregon Supreme Court must decide if a contractual non-disparagement provision in a former Oregon couple’s divorce can restrain someone from engaging in protected speech. Peter Lowes and Amy...
View ArticleColorado releases 17 endangered black-footed ferrets into the wild
LAMAR, Colo. (CN) — The first bandit-faced black-footed ferret kit slid right out of its carrier like it had been dreaming of the endless eastern plains of Lamar, Colorado, where prairie dog tunnels...
View ArticleLet’s get real
Raul is a U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico. He runs his own landscaping service and has done good work for me and friends to whom I introduced him. All of his crews are Latinos, mostly from Mexico....
View ArticleWill Trump’s return to White House deal final blow to insurrectionist argument?
(CN) — It isn’t ancient history. Just 1,409 days ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump told supporters gathered in Washington to “fight like hell,” walk down to the U.S. Capitol and give House...
View ArticleSpanish care home fire kills 10
MADRID (AFP) — A fire killed 10 people on Friday in a home for the elderly and people with mental health issues in northeastern Spain, officials said. A senior firefighter said a fire door had...
View ArticleExpert in NYC subway case: Chokehold killed Jordan Neely
MANHATTAN (CN) — A forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy of Jordan Neely told a Manhattan jury on Friday that she was confident Daniel Penny’s chokehold was the sole cause of Neely’s death....
View ArticleDominion’s Giuliani suit proceeds in CO
DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals dismissed the former Dominion Voting Systems security and strategy director’s conspiracy claim against former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, but allows the...
View ArticleWarden faces prisoner’s retaliation suit
Read the ruling here and the magistrate’s report here.
View ArticlePublic nuisance claims against Meta over child addiction advance
(CN) — A federal judge on Friday mostly allowed school districts and local governments to proceed with their public nuisance claims against Meta — the owner of Facebook and Instagram — and other...
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 ArticleNew Mexico man files class action against farm that supplied E. coli...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — Trevor Keene thought he was enjoying a routine lunch when he bit into a McDonald’s quarter pounder cheeseburger in October. Instead, it turned into a health crisis that left...
View ArticleClimate activist gets two years for dumping red powder on Constitution
WASHINGTON (CN) — A climate activist was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for covering the glass display housing the U.S. Constitution with red powder as part of a protest this past...
View ArticleSix Flags faces penalties for denying ASL interpreter
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A deaf man who sued a Six Flags theme park over its failure to provide an American Sign Language interpreter prevailed in his case on Friday, gaining the chance to help shape...
View ArticleJudge blocks Biden administration’s rule to expand overtime pay for millions
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S. On...
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