The Supreme Court said Monday that people who borrow rental cars from friends or family are generally entitled to the same protections against police searches as the authorized driver. The justices ruled unanimously that as a general rule someone who ...
Read More »Greitens says education nominees withdrawn for confirmation
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens sent a letter Friday to the Senate saying his five appointees to the State Board of Education had withdrawn from consideration — a move intended to avoid a permanent ban on them serving on the board. ...
Read More »Governor’s troubles trace to action in spring 2015
Eric Greitens was a busy man in spring 2015. He was launching a gubernatorial campaign by calling donors to a veterans’ charity he founded. He was promoting his new book “Resilience” with the help of a university-administered grant. And he ...
Read More »Missouri exports sex offenders to surrounding states
Missouri’s tough treatment of sex offenders living outside of prison is sending hundreds of the offenders to neighboring states, where laws are not as stringent. Missouri requires sex offenders to register for a lifetime, with no exceptions. Other states require ...
Read More »Postal Service: More financial loss as mail delivery slumps
The U.S. Postal Service reported another quarterly loss on Friday after an unrelenting drop in mail volume and costs of its health care and pension obligations outweighed strong gains in package deliveries. Amid sharp criticism from President Donald Trump that ...
Read More »Greitens’ attorney says no images of woman found on phone
A special examiner extracted thousands of images from the cellphone of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens “and none were found” of a woman whom the governor is charged with photographing while she was at least partially naked, the governor’s attorney said ...
Read More »Applebee’s sues over closure of restaurant in profiling case
Applebee’s is suing a Kansas City-area franchise owner over the closure of a restaurant where two black women said they were falsely accused of not paying for meals in an earlier visit. The chain claimed “significant brand and reputational damage” ...
Read More »Sex-abuse lawsuits illustrate USOC’s difficult path
Two lawsuits filed recently against the U.S. Olympic Committee illustrate the peril the federation finds itself in regarding its handling of decades’ worth of sex-abuse cases, while shining a light on the murky relationship the USOC has with the sports ...
Read More »SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Mystery, a faux pas, wordy Breyer
Spring is the season of mystery at the Supreme Court. The courtroom arguments are done, but the big cases have yet to be decided. Is a justice retiring? (So far no.) Another puzzle this year concerns an unusual appeal the ...
Read More »Amid #MeToo, more colleges host women as graduation speakers
This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the ...
Read More »Trump lawyer sold ‘insight’ into his high-powered client
Already under investigation for a payment to a porn star, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney is facing intensifying legal and ethical scrutiny for selling his Trump World experience and views at a hefty price to companies that sought “insight” ...
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