DOJ concludes employment disparate impact rules unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel released an opinion Tuesday concluding the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines prohibiting policies that unintentionally harm minority groups, known as disparate impact liability,...
House passes $70 billion reconciliation package, funding ICE through end of Trump term
WASHINGTON (CN) — The House on Tuesday evening passed a multibillion-dollar budget reconciliation package funding President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement priorities through the end of his second term, rising above some intraparty squabbling and steamrolling...
SPLC releases ‘Year in Hate’ report amid House grilling over fraud indictment
(CN) — At the same moment interim CEO and President Bryan Fair testified Tuesday at a congressional hearing of the House Judiciary Committee over Southern Poverty Law Center ’s recent criminal indictment, the embattled civil rights organization released its annual...
Judge foils feds’ attempt to fast-track Nebraska transmission line construction
DENVER (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the U.S. Forest Service from using the president’s energy emergency order to shortcut the process for evaluating the environmental and cultural impact of a 226-mile transmission line through Nebraska. “An agency failing...
Trump seeks to continue BBC defamation suit
MIAMI (CN) — Attorneys for President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Tuesday not to dismiss his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation after the judge chided them for “apparent disregard of court deadlines.” U.S. District Judge...
Conservationists take partial win in case over Montana grizzly, trout habitat
(CN) — Western conservation groups on Tuesday prevailed in their federal Endangered Species Act claims about the negative impacts of road and vehicle access to grizzly bears and bull trout in the Bitterroot National Forest. However, a Montana federal judge ruled that...
Texas jury finds Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder
MCKINNEY, Texas (CN) — A Texas jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder Tuesday and quickly sentenced him to 35 years in state prison over the stabbing death of an unarmed white teenager at a suburban track meet. Anthony, 19, of Frisco, audibly sobbed when the...
Trump says US ‘must’ respond after Iran shot down US Army helicopter near Strait of Hormuz
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump blamed Iran for shooting down a U.S. Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday and said the United States must respond to the attack. In the first known operation of its kind by...
Some host cities are aiming to house, not arrest, homeless people ahead of the World Cup
ATLANTA (AP) — Just a mile from Atlanta’s stadium, which will welcome tens of thousands of fans to World Cup games this month, dozens of people were camped out on a downtown sidewalk waiting for a homeless shelter to open. Some slept in sleeping bags,...