A judge in Atlanta on Thursday ordered Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case, her estate’s lawyers said. Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face-down and ...
Read More »US Jews grapple with election-year eruption of anti-Semitism
American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades. At a national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday in New York, ...
Read More »Trump selects Sen. Jeff Sessions as US attorney general
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as his pick for attorney general, signaling a sharp break in philosophical direction from the Obama administration’s Justice Department. The pick was disclosed Friday by a senior Trump official who wasn’t ...
Read More »Greitens, Koster square off in Missouri governor debate
The two major-party candidates for Missouri governor squared off Friday in their first debate, aggressively exchanging barbs about each other’s record and qualifications. Republican Eric Greitens accused Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster of being a career politician, a big-spending liberal ...
Read More »AP: Across US, police officers abuse confidential databases
Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work, an Associated Press investigation has found. Criminal-history ...
Read More »Yellen pledges to improve Fed’s workplace diversity
Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday she is committed to increasing diversity throughout the Federal Reserve system, including the ranks of senior leadership. Yellen said that the Fed will benefit from greater diversity, and commercial banks will be better off with ...
Read More »Koster’s income declined during term as Missouri AG
Missouri Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster released four years of tax returns Thursday, showing that his income from private investments has declined substantially during his current term as attorney general. Koster released his tax information a day before the first ...
Read More »Prosecutors ask appeals panel to rehear Bank of America case
A federal appeals panel should reconsider its reversal of a fraud verdict against Bank of America Corp. and $1.2 billion penalty resulting from the bank’s actions during the 2008 financial crisis, prosecutors say. Prosecutors filed papers with the 2nd U.S. ...
Read More »Senate Democrats block GOP’s Zika funding bill
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican proposal to provide $1.1 billion to fight the Zika virus, faulting the GOP for packing the measure with restrictions on Planned Parenthood money and changes to policies on pesticide spraying. The nearly party-line ...
Read More »Supreme Court rejects pharmacists’ religious rights appeal
The Supreme Court is allowing Washington state to require pharmacies to dispense Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, rejecting an appeal from pharmacists who said they have religious objections to providing the drugs. The justices’ order on Tuesday leaves in ...
Read More »2 discrimination lawsuits against Emporia State proceed
A federal lawsuit that alleges Emporia State University discriminated against a black assistant professor after he complained about a racial incident will continue after a federal judge recently rejected motions to dismiss it. Melvin Hale, who is black, claimed that ...
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