The former president asked for his guilty verdict to be tossed after the Supreme Court ruled that he's entitled to absolute immunity for official presidential acts.
A unanimous New York appellate court ordered Giuliani to cease practicing law "immediately."
Justice Clarence Thomas called on the high court to review the law at another time, and expressed doubt that Illinois' ban on America’s most common civilian rifle would pass constitutional muster.
The new strategy involves a way to boost the body's ability to repair cellular damage.
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A debate on the continent, between the 35-year-old prime minister and 28-year-old would-be prime minister, stood in powerful contrast to the recent presidential debate here in America, and showed a pathway to the American future in politics.
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The justices' ranging opinions on the high court’s decision not to hear cases provided a window into what cases could be granted in the coming terms.
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In a fight over flavored e-cigarettes, the Supreme Court will decide if the FDA unfairly blocked new products from entering the market because of concerns about children’s health.
The George H.W. Bush appointee expressed concern that allowing executive-branch officials like the attorney general to create offices evoked British monarchs, even as he helped grant wide-reaching criminal immunity for presidents.
10th Circuit vacates 20-year sentence for woman who brokered body parts out of Colorado funeral home
"Though corpses are indeed ‘unable to protect themselves,’ it does not follow that they ‘require greater societal protection’ than the living,” the appellate panel reasoned.
Jeff Vaughn accuses CBS of replacing him to solve its "white problem" and to diversify its newsrooms.
Guo's fervent anti-communist advocacy made him a darling of the American Right, going into business with Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to start GTV in 2020.
Democrats hope to head off another initiative that would gut criminal justice reforms passed by voters a decade ago.
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Lee faces fines of more than $50,000 if it's determined he accepted gifts without disclosing them in 2017 while working as chief of staff to his predecessor Mitchell Englander, now a convicted felon.
Temperatures remained significantly higher than usual during the evenings, keeping the city’s average temperature seven degrees hotter than June 2023.
The federal government must continue reporting to a special master for several months, ahead of a trial over claims that officials violated incarcerated individuals' rights at a prison facility notorious for cases of sexual assault against inmates.
“Like a canary in a coal mine, the ptarmigan is telling us that we’re losing the snowpack that keeps Washington’s streams cool and flowing throughout the summer," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers began working on the project in 2020, and expects construction to take several years.
A case that divided the jury and the public will most likely be retried, according to prosecutors.
The majority of a three-judge panel found that a Mesa police officer exercised excessive force when he shot a man nine times during a traffic stop.
An environmental nonprofit in Utah claims Wasatch Front Harley-Davidson dealerships removed or modified required emission control parts from their bikes.
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The Hawaii Supreme Court upheld a man’s conviction for chaining up his stepson outdoors, overnight, for a year. An appeals court vacated the conviction because the charging document did not define “restrain” in terms of consent, but the information sufficed to put the defense on notice.
Texas won a preliminary injunction in federal court, halting the Department of Labor’s implementation of a new rule that would raise the salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s executive, administrative, and professional employee exception from overtime pay. Texas is likely to prevail on its argument that the exemption “turns on consideration of an employee’s duties, not her salary.”
A federal court in Louisiana required the Biden administration to stop delaying the consideration of projects that aim to export liquified natural gas, or methane, while 16 red states sue over the federal government’s ban on exports of natural gas to countries that do not have a free trade agreements — all but 18 nations, in essence.
A federal court in Washington denied Amazon Web Services’ effort to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging privacy violations. Consumers say Amazon recorded their phone calls without their permission.
A Texas appeals court affirmed the jury verdict of a man who threw his dog from a second-floor motel balcony, then yanked the dog off the ground via the leash coiled around its neck before slamming the dog to the pavement and kicking it in the face. Part of the attack was caught on video by a neighbor and the man was sentenced to three years in prison for cruelty that the appellate panel called “torture.”
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Former Arkansas Governor and political commentator Mike Huckabee claims in a lawsuit that Meta allowed false ads to be published on Facebook that used his name and image to promote CBD gummies.
A documentary about Tom Petty uses 45 minutes of footage of the singer without permission or compensation, filmmaker Martyn Atkins says. Atkins, the art director for Petty's "Wildflowers" album, captured hours of footage of the singer in the studio and on tour.
Groups that work to protect New York's Lake George sued environmental regulators over a plan to add an experimental herbicide to the large freshwater lake, which has grappled for years with invasive plants.
Nike investors say in a class action that the major athletic brand misrepresented the success of its new direct-to-consumers strategy, which actually caused a major decline in market value that resulted in significant losses for stockholders.
In addition to the man they say struck and killed their 12-year-old daughter with a jet ski, Ashley and Mark Peterson blame the website OfferUp and lifeguards and police they claim didn't stop Arsanyous Ghaly and his friends from going about 50 mph in Mission Bay's 5-mph zone.
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