North Dakota regulators consider underground carbon dioxide storage permits...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota panel will consider Thursday whether to approve permits for underground storage of hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide that a proposed pipeline...
View ArticleSenate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people, setting up potential passage in the final days of the...
View ArticleSurvey: Half of US teens online ‘constantly’
(CN) — Nearly half of all teenagers report being online almost constantly, up from around 24% a decade ago, according to a report released Thursday by Pew Research Center. The organization also found...
View ArticleCountry star Morgan Wallen sentenced in chair-throwing case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Morgan Wallen on Thursday pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment for throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in...
View ArticleSierra Club, EPA clash at Sixth Circuit over Detroit ozone
(CN) — Environmental advocates on Thursday asked a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit to reverse the easing of Detroit air-pollution restrictions, claiming that decision was based on skewed data....
View ArticleJudge rejects Amazon attempt to dismiss gender pay disparity class action
SEATTLE (CN) — A class action by Amazon employees claiming the e-commerce giant “underpays and discriminates against its female employees on a systemic scale” will proceed after a federal judge...
View ArticleNew York City mayor meets with Trump’s ‘border czar’ to discuss how to go...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic mayor expressing an enthusiasm to work with the incoming...
View ArticleHow Timothée Chalamet transformed into Bob Dylan
NEW YORK (AP) — How many roads must a man walk down to play Bob Dylan? Quite a few, at least, if you’re Timothée Chalamet. Off and on for some six years, Chalamet has been obsessively working toward...
View ArticleWhite supremacist gets two years in prison for attacking demonstrators at...
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A white supremacist was sentenced to two years in federal prison on Friday for organizing violent confrontations with leftist demonstrators at political rallies in California....
View ArticleJudge refuses to void guilty plea from former Trump lawyer in Georgia...
ATLANTA (CN) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and several others has rejected an effort by Trump’s former campaign lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, to...
View ArticleFinal inflation data for 2024 raises interest rates worries
MANHATTAN (CN) — Wall Street investors treaded lightly this week, as inflation data all but guarantees a rate cut next week but calls into question the Federal Reserve’s approach in 2025. While the...
View ArticleProsecutors to seek death penalty in Texas killing that galvanized Republicans
HOUSTON (CN) — Harris County prosecutors on Friday announced they would seek the death penalty against two men accused of killing Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl from the Houston area. Nungaray’s...
View Article10th Circuit urged to vacate EPA approval of Colorado oil and gas permitting...
DENVER (CN) — An environmental group on Friday told a 10th Circuit panel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a Colorado regulation defining when oil and gas operations commence...
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Ex-Senator Bob Menendez denied bid to toss bribery trial ahead of January...
MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York federal judge on Friday denied former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s Hail Mary motion to vacate his bribery and corruption convictions. The onetime chairman of the...
View ArticleOpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding...
(AP) — A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence “dictatorship” is now heading to a federal judge as Musk...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s Senate exit may create a vacuum of vocal, conservative Trump...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With Mitt Romney set to exit the U.S. Senate, Washington will be without one of its strongest conservative critics of Donald Trump when the president retakes the White House in...
View ArticleCharitable groups linked to Catholic Church will get Supreme Court review for...
WASHINGTON (CN) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether a Catholic nonprofit umbrella organization should be exempt from Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance tax. The Wisconsin Supreme...
View ArticleAustin seized citizen journalist’s cameras
AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin may have illegally seized a citizen journalist’s cameras and video footage of police activity in and around homeless encampments, ruled a federal court that declined...
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View ArticleIn prosecution first, consultants on hook for $650 million for role in opioid...
ABINGDON, Va. (CN) — The Justice Department announced on Friday a deferred prosecution agreement with McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm charged with helping a pharmaceutical company...
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