In stepping up legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, Democratic attorneys general are trying to use the court system to thwart the executive branch in the same way their GOP counterparts did under President Barack Obama. Washington ...
Read More »Justice Sotomayor laments perception of judges as political
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday that she is saddened to see that many people have lost confidence in judges and believe they are political. Sotomayor made the comments while taking questions from law students at the University ...
Read More »From grave to lab, she throws science, passion at cold cases
Dr. Erin Kimmerle stands at the head of an open, watery grave and peers down. It’s a sweltering fall day in Tampa, and here’s what she knows about what’s below: It’s the grave of a murder victim. The woman’s body ...
Read More »Hawaii files lawsuit over Trump’s revised travel ban
Hawaii has become the first state to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, saying the order will harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students. Attorneys for the state filed the lawsuit against the U.S. government ...
Read More »Trial by fire: Lawyer’s pants set ablaze during arson case
A Miami defense attorney is feeling the heat after his pants caught fire Wednesday after he told jurors during arguments in an arson case that his client’s car spontaneously combusted and wasn’t intentionally set. As he started speaking to the ...
Read More »St. Patrick’s parade planners to reconsider gay veterans ban
The organizers of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade have scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday to reconsider their vote to bar a gay veterans group from participating. The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which organizes the parade, and representatives ...
Read More »Woman wins $28.9M verdict in suit against health provider
A southwestern Missouri jury has ordered a health provider to pay roughly $29 million to a woman who argued that doctors’ failure to timely diagnose her rare disorder made her reliant on a feeding tube. Greene County jurors last week ...
Read More »New nonprofit plans to advocate for Greitens and his agenda
A newly formed nonprofit will be able to advocate for Gov. Eric Greitens and his agenda while accepting unlimited donations and without having to disclose who is making the contributions. The organization, A New Missouri Inc. will promote the governor’s ...
Read More »Trump’s in-house guardrail: White House Counsel Don McGahn
As Donald Trump raged in an Oval Office filled with tense senior aides, he trained his eyes on one in particular: White House Counsel Don McGahn. During the Friday afternoon tirade, which would spill into a Saturday morning tweetstorm, Trump ...
Read More »Caveman menu: Woolly rhino in Belgium, mushrooms in Spain
Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on where they lived, new research shows. Scientists got a sneak peek into ...
Read More »Survey: Private employers added robust 298K jobs last month
U.S. businesses added the most jobs in three years last month, a private survey found, a sign that hiring may be accelerating from last year’s modest levels. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses added 298,000 jobs in February, up ...
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