Recent Updates
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Government funding bill clears Congress and heads to President Biden
Political and Legal 12/21/2024Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, dropping President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit...
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Biden administration races to shell out billions for clean energy as election nears
Political and Legal 10/20/2024The Biden administration is shelling out billions of dollars for clean energy and approving major offshore wind projects as officials race to secure major climate initiatives before President Joe Biden’s term comes to an end. Biden wants to est...
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Trump responds to guilty verdict by falsely blasting 'rigged trial'
Political and Legal 06/01/2024Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justi...
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Key takeaways from UN court’s ruling on Israel’s war in Gaza
Political and Legal 01/26/2024The U.N. world court on Friday came down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians. But it stopped short of demanding an immediate cease-fire,...
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More women join challenge to Tennessee’s abortion ban law
Political and Legal 01/10/2024More women on Monday joined a Tennessee lawsuit challenging the state’s broad abortion ban that went into effect shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.The legal challenge is part of a handful of lawsuits filed acro...
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South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius gets parole and will be released
Political and Legal 11/23/2023Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world.He will be released from prison on Jan. ...
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Mexican president suffers court reverse, tensions rise
Political and Legal 11/24/2022Mexico’s Supreme Court struck down part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ‘jail, no bail’ policy Thursday.The court voted against mandatory pre-trial detention for people accused of fraud, smuggling or t...
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Biden taps Montana law professor to be 9th Circuit judge
Political and Legal 08/31/2022President Joe Biden nominated has nominated a University of Montana law professor to be a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.Anthony Johnstone is a former solicitor for the state of Montana who has taught at the University of Montana sinc...
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Judge throws out Missouri AG’s COVID-19 suit against China
Political and Legal 07/09/2022A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt that blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic.U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh said in his 38-page ruling that in this case federal rules prohibit...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court adopts GOP-drawn legislative maps
Political and Legal 04/19/2022The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, handing the GOP a victory just weeks after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.The court reversed itself after the U.S. Supreme Co...
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Moats named to temporary seat on West Virginia Supreme Court
Political and Legal 02/07/2022A circuit judge has been appointed to a temporary seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court after the resignation of Justice Evan Jenkins. Chief Justice John Hutchison on Monday appointed Alan D. Moats to the high court. Moats has served in the judicia...
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New Mexico Supreme court mediates clash on pandemic aid
Political and Legal 11/20/2021New Mexico’s Supreme Court is considering whether state legislators should have a greater say in the spending more than $1 billion in federal pandemic aid. Arguments in the case were scheduled for Wednesday morning at the five-seat high court. ...