An equal justice statue stands outside the doors of the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Sioux Falls. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A new court fight over South Dakota’s abortion-rights ballot measure could hinge on a complicated answer to a simple question: Does a set of six-year-old petition requirements still exist? The court fight started Thursday, when […]
Fast radio bursts flash in the sky over Earth. | Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second that the sun takes three days […]
I’d guess that Kari Lake and the rest of MAGA consider the late President Ronald Reagan to be less of a Republican Party icon than a RINO. But the political operatives running Lake’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in Arizona know better. I’d guess that somewhere on their desks, or hanging in a frame on […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when asked to name the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border, and it’s not the dayslong jungle trek through Colombia and Panama with its venomous vipers, giant spiders and scorpions. It’s Mexico. “In the jungle, you have to prepare […]
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin warned of potential new criminal charges for Donald Trump after a court-appointed monitor overseeing his New York fraud case found that the former president’s financial disclosures contained “certain deficiencies.” Former federal judge Barbara Jones wrote in a 12-page letter that she had identified “certain deficiencies in the financial information that […]