WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that people who win early rulings in civil rights cases won’t necessarily be able to recover their legal fees, a finding that both conservative and liberal groups had argued could make it harder to fight for people’s rights in court. The high court ruled 7-2 against Virginia […]
Stitt’s logic confusing on virtual learning Make this make sense. Gov. Kevin Stitt and many legislators want to eliminate virtual learning days in public schools. But they also support giving St. Isidore, a VIRTUAL charter school, $25.7 million over the first five years to have virtual days every school day. And to confuse the logic even […]
President Joe Biden announced on Friday that, as far as he’s concerned, the Equal Rights Amendment is the “law of the land,” a somewhat symbolic move that is poised to allow more women across the country to sue their states for gender discrimination—including challenges to abortion bans. The ERA, originally drafted over a century ago […]
TikTok has turned off its app for US users. The move comes after the company lost a legal challenge to a divest-or-ban law in the Supreme Court. The shutdown may not last forever, as TikTok hopes President-elect Donald Trump will step in. TikTok shut down its app for its US users on Saturday, shortly before […]
An armed assailant fatally shot two notorious Iranian judges inside the Islamic Republic’s supreme court on Saturday. Judges Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini were known for ordering harsh sentences, including executions, during their decades-long careers. Such judges are known as “judges of death” and “executioners” in Iran. Iran’s judiciary said a “planned assassination” was carried […]
Topline The fate of TikTok’s U.S. operations might be decided Friday after the Supreme Court said it may announce opinions in the morning, potentially delivering a ruling on TikTok days before the ban against it is scheduled to take effect, with justices recently signaling during oral arguments they may uphold the policy. Content creators Callie […]
(Reuters) – Apple’s board of directors recommended investors vote against a shareholder proposal to abolish the company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, according to a proxy filing from the company. The National Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank, submitted a proposal that the company consider abolishing its “Inclusion & Diversity program, policies, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reinstating some preventative care coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act that were struck down by a lower court. The federal government appealed to the high court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with employers who argued they can’t be forced to […]
WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request to block Friday’s sentencing in his New York hush-money criminal case, guaranteeing that Trump will carry the label “convicted felon” when he returns to the White House. In the first test of how receptive the court may be to the incoming president, four of […]
Its name is a mouthful, but no one who stops to read the text of the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which Congress and President Joe Biden codified as law last year, can have any doubts that its purpose was to give TikTok and its foreign owners an ultimatum: sell the wildly […]
