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Bakery appeals to UK Supreme Court in gay-rights cake case
Featured Articles 04/30/2018A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage.Ashers Baking Co. in Northern Ireland refused in ...
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Judge fights for job after admitting to courthouse affair
Featured Articles 04/11/2018Massachusetts' highest court will decide the fate of a judge who admitted to having an affair with a clinical social worker that included sexual encounters at the courthouse.The Commission on Judicial Conduct is asking for Judge Thomas Estes to be su...
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Zuckerberg Flubs Details of Facebook Privacy Commitments
Featured Articles 04/06/2018Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chief revealed that he didn’t know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy.With congressional h...
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Justice Gorsuch confirms conservatives' hopes, liberals' fears
Featured Articles 03/26/2018Neil Gorsuch became the Supreme Court’s newest member a year ago this Tuesday. President Donald Trump’s pick for the high court, its 113th justice, has now heard more than 60 cases on issues including gerrymandering, fees paid to unions a...
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Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers
Featured Articles 03/16/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a free speech fight over California's attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.The case being argued Tuesday involves information required by a state law that the centers must provide client...
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Judge: Banning guns for marijuana users unconstitutional
Featured Articles 12/31/1969Judge: Banning guns for marijuana A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional, the latest challenge to firearms regulations after the U.S. Supreme Court’...