WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday is expected to issue its long-anticipated ruling on whether former President Donald Trump can claim immunity from prosecution for at least some of his actions in seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Chief Justice John Roberts announced Friday that Monday would be the last day of rulings in […]
European Union regulators accused social media company Meta Platforms on Monday of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. Meta has been giving European users the option since November of paying for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram as […]
Top Democrats on Sunday ruled out the possibility of replacing US president Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee after a feeble debate performance and called on party members to focus instead on the consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency. After days of hand-wringing about Mr Biden’s poor night on stage debating Trump, Democratic leaders […]
The Supreme Court will issue its final set of rulings on Monday, and it’s saved one of its biggest cases for last. The court is expected to address former President Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity in one of the decisions. No matter what the ruling says, it will change the 2024 election, and it […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Friday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule from taking effect that would extend mandatory overtime pay to 4 million salaried U.S. workers. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan in Sherman, Texas, said the U.S. Department of Labor rule that is set to go into effect on […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to rule Monday on whether former President Donald Trump has sweeping presidential immunity that would shield him from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election. The justices have left the high-profile case for their final decision day before summer break. It was the last one argued this […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The head of the national mine workers’ union on Friday condemned what he characterized as an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing workers’ exposure to poisonous, deadly rock dust, calling it “a direct attack on the health hand safety of coal miners.” […]
The Supreme Court issued three more opinions on Friday, marking the first time the justices have weighed in on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Chief Justice John Roberts also announced that this coming Monday, July 1, will be the final day the court will issue opinions for this term — including […]
The Supreme Court issued three more opinions on Friday, marking the first time the justices have weighed in on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Chief Justice Roberts also announced that this coming Monday, July 1, will be the final day the court will issue opinions for this term — including the […]
A Tennessee law could determine the future of gender-affirming care nationally now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case over a constitutional battle concerning transgender people’s rights. Since 2022, the number of states banning gender-affirming care for minors has skyrocketed from four to 25, and the justices will be asked […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an interstate air quality rule issued last year by the Biden administration to limit ozone that comes from power plants and industrial sites in the Midwest and sends polluted air drifting toward the East Coast. The vote was 5-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberals in […]
The European Court of Human Rights is set to rule on Tuesday in a case concerning alleged Russian abuses committed in Ukraine’s occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Ukraine, which brought the case to Europe’s top rights court, says Russia has repeatedly violated human rights in Crimea since February 2014, when Moscow annexed the territory […]