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Supreme Court rebuffs plea to restore multibllliou-dollar student debt plan
Featured Articles 08/31/2024The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.The justices rejected an admi...
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Former Rep. George Santos pleads guilty in federal fraud case
Featured Articles 08/20/2024George Santos, the former New York congressman who spun lies into a brief political career, pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, acknowledging that he allowed his ambitions to cloud his judgment.Santos, 36, is likely to ...
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X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’
Featured Articles 08/15/2024Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.X is removing all re...
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Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations
Featured Articles 08/09/2024Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...
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Court filings provide additional details of the US’ first nitrogen gas execution
Featured Articles 08/01/2024A corrections officer who helped carry out the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution said in a court document that the inmate had normal blood oxygen levels for longer than he expected before the numbers suddenly plummeted.Another court documen...
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New York’s top court allows ‘equal rights’ amendment to appear on November ballot
Featured Articles 07/14/2024A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this November, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.The decision from...
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Featured Articles 07/07/2024Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
Featured Articles 06/22/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
Featured Articles 06/13/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two ...
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Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording
Featured Articles 06/10/2024Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Featured Articles 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
Featured Articles 05/01/2024A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn’t sure she w...