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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Featured Articles 01/18/2025Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...
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Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the US
Featured Articles 01/11/2025The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and n...
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Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers
Featured Articles 01/03/2025Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oak...
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Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals
Featured Articles 01/01/2025A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said.The decision puts back on track...
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Small businesses brace themselves for potentially disruptive TikTok ban
Featured Articles 12/26/2024A looming TikTok ban could affect the millions of small businesses that use the short-video social media app to help them grow their business.Desiree Hill, owner of Crown’s Corner Mechanic in Conyers, Georgia, started her business solo as a mob...
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Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract
Featured Articles 12/21/2024Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.The Teamsters say the workers, who authorized strikes in the past few days, a...
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FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
Featured Articles 11/03/2024The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican p...
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case
Featured Articles 10/18/2024The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...
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Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
Featured Articles 10/12/2024Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday that Gov. Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years appeared to be “extreme” and “crazy” ...
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After just a few hours, U.S. election bets put on hold by appeals court ruling
Featured Articles 09/14/2024Just hours after it began, legal betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections has been put on hold by a federal appeals court.The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order Thursday night temporarily freezing the ...
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‘The Mentalist’ star Simon Baker admits drinking and driving in Australia
Featured Articles 09/11/2024Australian actor and director Simon Baker, best known for his role as Patrick Jane in the CBS drama series “The Mentalist,” avoided a conviction Wednesday after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol near hi...
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Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit
Featured Articles 09/03/2024Veering from the campaign trail to a courtroom, Donald Trump quietly observed Friday as his lawyer fought to overturn a verdict finding the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.The Republican nominee and his accuser, E. Jean Carrol...