Amazon defends Prime cancellation methods against fraud claims
PHOENIX (CN) — Arizona’s attorney general had a second go at Amazon’s business practices this week, this time arguing that Amazon’s complex subscription cancellation process violates the Arizona...
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EU-Mercosur free trade deal gets over the line, but likely faces tough battle...
Brussels (CN) — After two decades in the making, a trade deal between the EU and the South American Mercosur trade bloc was dragged over the line in an eleventh-hour summit on Friday, but political...
View ArticleThousands flee as Syrian insurgents advance to the doorstep of the country’s...
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a...
View ArticleRideshare company faces federal suit over failure to hire deaf drivers
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday lodged a lawsuit against rideshare company Alto Experience after it said the company was turning away qualified deaf...
View ArticleFirst sentenced in Capitol riot gets 7-month reprieve after obstruction...
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge shaved seven months off a Texas Three Percenter’s 87-month sentence on Friday, who was the first rioter to be imprisoned for his role in the violence at the U.S....
View ArticleMexico study’s surprising finding: Killer heat hit harder for the young than...
(AP) — A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat. Researchers found at higher temperatures and humidity, the...
View ArticleRepublican judge in North Carolina Supreme Court race pursues win in court
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — A Republican judge in an undecided North Carolina Supreme Court race is continuing to pursue legal avenues to secure a win as the state works to finish its second recount of the...
View ArticleThe Intercept to secure wolf FOIA docs
MANHATTAN — The Intercept and one of its investigative reporters largely won their push to get a federal court to require the National Park Service to review the Freedom of Information Request filed by...
View ArticleJury’s murder verdict ‘not rational’
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana appeals court reversed a jury’s conviction of a man for the murder of his girlfriend, who was found drowned in a Louisiana bayou after the couple had been drinking and...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Democrats sue to prevent post-election removal of 60,000 voters
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — The North Carolina Democratic Party sued the state board of elections in federal court Friday, asking for a judgment preventing the board from removing over 60,000 challenged...
View ArticleCalifornia fights $130 million fine in 30-year inmate mental health case
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — How long does it take to fix California’s prison mental health system? Apparently, almost 30 years and counting. The Ninth Circuit held two hearings Friday in Coleman v. Newsom, a...
View ArticleSixth Circuit backs Kentucky in fight with EPA over interstate air quality...
(CN) — The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rejection in early 2023 of Kentucky’s proposed plan to comply with interstate air quality regulations. A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel...
View ArticleMinnesota Supreme Court balks at bid to strip reporter protections in DAPL...
ST. PAUL — Justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of an energy company’s desire to obtain unpublished information gathered by a news organization. Energy Transfer LP is...
View ArticleWhite House threatens to boot judgeships bill amid partisan scrap in Congress
WASHINGTON (CN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he would veto bipartisan legislation that sponsors say is aimed at easing the burden of crushing caseloads on judges in federal district courts,...
View ArticleManhattan DA bucks Trump’s immunity claims in bid to uphold historic hush...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Manhattan prosecutors are sticking to their vow to push forward with their hush money case against Donald Trump, even after he won the presidential election in November. In a court...
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