The US supreme court expressed concern on Tuesday with prosecutors using an obstruction statute to charge hundreds of January 6 Capitol riot defendants, with the justices leaning towards a position that could jeopardize those prosecutions and the criminal case against Donald Trump. The Trump case was not mentioned at the argument. But a decision curtailing […]
The Supreme Court appeared incredibly skeptical of how a law has been used to charge hundreds of participants in the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, in arguments on Tuesday. The case came to the court from a challenge brought by Joseph Fischer, who was among the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Among […]
A federal judge appeared skeptical of Hunter Biden’s arguments Wednesday that his indictment on tax charges from special counsel David Weiss should be dismissed after his plea deal fell apart last year. The failed plea had offered immunity for many of the same tax issues that are included in the current felony indictment of President […]
North Carolina’s principals want to change the way they’re paid to reduce the impact of test results and to take into account factors such as how many low-income students they have. Since 2017, the state has paid principals based on how many students are at their school and whether their state test scores met or […]
Every time investors have braced themselves for the AI bubble to burst in the last few months, a new eye-popping data point comes out to prove them wrong and send money flowing back into the stock market. The latest shock was Nvidia’s latest quarterly earnings, which managed to surpass investors’ already sky-high expectations and set […]
The stock market’s thirst for generative artificial intelligence plays will get a fresh test when the enterprise AI software company C3.ai reports its January quarter results after the close Wednesday. C3.ai shares have been on a wild ride in the public market. Built by Siebel Systems founder Tom Siebel, C3.ai went public in 2020 at […]
A federal judge plans to quickly issue a ruling in a lawsuit over legislation designed to institute new penalties for illegal border crossings. David Ezra, judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, said Thursday he will soon make the ruling on whether Senate Bill 4 is constitutional. The bill is […]
As North Carolinians cast ballots on the first day of early voting, a federal appeals court heard arguments Thursday about whether the state’s new Senate map should be thrown out for diluting the votes of Black residents. Plaintiffs in the case argue that the Republican-crafted state Senate map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights […]
The US supreme court appeared skeptical of a Colorado decision removing Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot during nearly two hours of oral arguments on Thursday. It seems poised to rule Trump is not constitutionally disqualified from running for president. The case is perhaps the most high-stakes legal dispute to arrive at the court […]
The U.S. Supreme Court. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) Throughout oral arguments Thursday, both conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment could be used to justify Trump’s removal from ballots in Colorado or other states. Like several conservative justices, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pressed plaintiffs’ lawyer Jason Murray […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dozens of pieces of gun-related legislation that advocates say will bolster public safety are winding their way through Virginia’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly, including a measure that would halt the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms. The question hanging over all the bills is: Just how many will Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin veto? […]
North Korean citizens are becoming increasingly skeptical of their political leadership, according to a report on the experiences of escapees. The Unification Ministry of South Korea, a government organ focused on relations with the country’s northern neighbor, released a report Tuesday documenting social trends regarding North Korean leadership. Interviews with North Korean defectors to South […]