Unless the case settles in the next few weeks, a jury will decide whether Beau Rivage Casino & Resort security officers used unreasonable force on a VIP guest who appeared drunk and didn’t leave when security asked him to. Florida resident Brent Nettles, who was visiting the Biloxi resort with family, filed a federal lawsuit […]
Molly Dannelly’s family owns a small home on Shull Island north of Gilbert where they host family gatherings or visiting friends. But when the house is sitting empty, she infrequently books guests through Airbnb, just to make ends meet. “We do it primarily to help pay the property tax,” Dannelly said. “Truthfully, we’re not primarily […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge said it would be unreasonable for the country’s internet safety watchdog to require social platform X to hide video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church from all of its users globally, as he explained his decision to lift a court order that had required X […]
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan scolded prosecutors Wednesday for seeking an “unreasonable” 97-month sentence for a man who assaulted police on Jan. 6, 2021, with a hockey stick — but had documented mental health disorders, served honorably in the military and spent the last two years trying to turn his life around. Chutkan, instead, sentenced […]
TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional. Up to thousands of protesters clogged the streets of the capital of Ottawa and besieged Parliament Hill, demonstrating against vaccine […]
Murphy and Lankford have been engaged in border negotiations in the Senate for nearly a month. Republicans have conditioned their support for a $106 billion supplemental spending bill moving through the Senate on striking a deal on border policy changes. The supplemental includes aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, in addition to money for the […]