The high court tossed a challenge by states that claimed the Biden administration was censoring conservative content when fighting misinformation.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson decried the majority's decision in a dissent, calling it absurd, atextual and one "only today's court could love."
The high court acknowledged the ruling briefly appeared online this morning.
The ship sank around the time the Colossus of Rhodes was built.
Heavy rains haven't solved Mexico's water woes, which is no surprise to water advocates who blame government-sanctioned water looting for the crisis.
Proponents of the bill say they want to help keep the Fourth Estate alive, but critics say the plan is likely unconstitutional.
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Subscribe for free here!Conservative Ursula von der Leyen is on track for a second term as the European Commission president and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, a liberal and Russia hawk, is likely to become the EU's top diplomat.
The EU's antitrust watchdog has turned its eyes on Microsoft amid a wider crackdown on Big Tech's business practices.
Iceland’s uptick in volcanic activity could go for decades, or even centuries, sucker-punching the nation’s economy, despite its plans for resilient infrastructure.
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The U.S. military’s criminal code until 2013 contained a provision banning consensual gay sex.
Although the state maintains an electronic list of individuals purged from the voter rolls because of felony convictions, it argued the National Voter Registration Act only requires in-person review or paper production of the list.
Trump's attorney argued the searches of Melania and Barron Trump's rooms violated the former president's Fourth Amendment rights.
The names and address of Manhattan jurors who convicted Trump will remain under wraps, however.
A former police chief in the Malian city of Timbuktu was found guilty of torture, outrages upon personal dignity and cruel treatment.
The lawyer for the man accused in the murder of Tupac Shakur said his client is a liar — including about his involvement in the rapper's death.
Karen Read's attorney accused the state of hiding evidence, falsifying police reports and manipulating evidence.
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Colorado voters have increasingly chosen Democrats to represent the state in the years since Donald Trump was elected president, leaving Republican seats vulnerable.
Backed by tens of millions of dollars from pro-Israel fundraising, Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s win over Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday makes Bowman the first Democratic House member this cycle to lose a primary.
The White House says a pair of major payouts will help U.S. cities overcome barriers to building affordable housing units.
Environmentalists claim that the National Marine Fisheries Service delayed making a decision on the sharks' protections for over two years.
Microplastics are endemic in the world's oceans, and not going anywhere. In a presentation at a recent water science conference, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discussed efforts to evaluate the problem.
The case was initially decided by a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit, which struck down the recording ban last year. Now, the full federal appeals court will rule on it.
After a federal court struck down the ban, the Hawaii Legislature approved an amendment to the ban that prohibits only the concealed carry of bladed weapons.
Critics say allowing mines to claim unlimited land to dump waste hampers their ability to enjoy nature.
Rulings
A federal court in California allows consumers’ long-running, multi-district complaint to continue against Bank of America over rampant theft and fraud of its customers’ unemployment benefits following Covid-19. Theft was so bad, California’s Employment Development Department cancelled a contract with the bank, which had been distributing funds. A series of Electronic Funds Transfer Act claims survive, alleging consumers’ accounts were frozen without explanation while theft was occurring.
The Hawaii Court of Appeals found that an 85-year-old man’s caretaker financially exploited him by using his credit cards; though the elderly man testified he had authorized the purchases, his confusion during the hearing properly led the lower court to determine he was a vulnerable person.
An appeals court in Texas found that a mother properly served a timely expert report to the doctor she is suing after he botched her infant son’s circumcision, which went so poorly that the child will need plastic surgery and skin grafts to correct the errors. She served the report, before suing, to the doctor’s professional liability insurance carrier, which satisfied the service requirements.
A Colorado doctor settled her lawsuit against the Catholic hospital that fired her after she consoled a terminally ill patient seeking aid-in-dying. The terms of the settlement are not disclosed, and each party is paying their own fees and costs.
A federal court in New York dismissed an NYC hotel’s lawsuit against its insurers, which refused to pay for costs arising from a fire that started while the hotel was working with the city to house homeless families seeking asylum. It wasn’t licensed to be a shelter, but the policy’s $250,000 shelter deductible applies due to its use, and the fire’s damages don’t exceed that amount.
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The former employee of a Hawaii engineering firm says in a lawsuit the firm conspired with a city prosecutor to bring false theft charges against her after she filed harassment claims. New evidence of the conspiracy was revealed during the recently concluded corruption trial of the firm and the prosecutor.
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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