It stands to shift the direction of the nation’s highest court for decades, but President Donald Trump’s move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has barely cracked the consciousness of some voters in the nation’s top political battlegrounds. Even among ...
Read More »Author of Emmett Till book gave FBI interview recordings
Weeks after he published a book about the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a North Carolina author received a call from FBI agents asking about his interview with a key witness who acknowledged lying about her interactions with the black ...
Read More »Government probing ‘new information’ in Emmett Till slaying
The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told ...
Read More »Judge says Missouri governor can appoint a Lt. Gov.
A Missouri judge upheld a governor’s right to appoint a lieutenant governor Wednesday, bringing some clarity to a decades-old legal argument in the state. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem’s ruling said Gov. Mike Parson had the authority to appoint ...
Read More »Navajo Nation urges expansion of radiation-exposure law
From the end of World War II to the mid-1980s, about 30 million tons of uranium ore were extracted from lands belonging to the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. Today, across the Navajo Nation, sit dozens of abandoned uranium mines ...
Read More »AP sources: Kavanaugh was Trump’s early favorite for court
In calls from the Oval Office, from Air Force One, and from his New Jersey golf club, President Donald Trump returned again and again to the same question as he mulled his next Supreme Court nomination: “Who’s the best here?” ...
Read More »Government falls short of deadline to reunite kids, parents
Some immigrant toddlers are back in the arms of their parents, although others remained in holding facilities away from relatives as federal officials fell short of meeting a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families ...
Read More »A look at Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh’s notable opinions
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2006. Here are summaries of some of his notable opinions: HELLER v. DISTRICT OF ...
Read More »First trial in Roundup weed-killer cancer claims under way
Lawyers for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer asked a San Francisco jury on Monday to find that agribusiness giant Monsanto’s widely used weed killer Roundup likely caused his disease. Dewayne Johnson’s lawsuit is the first case to go to ...
Read More »Supreme Court enjoys relatively high public confidence
The next Supreme Court justice will join the bench at a time when the public has more confidence in the high court than in Congress or the presidency. A Gallup survey in June found 37 percent of Americans have a ...
Read More »Kavanaugh would replace swing vote with conservative voice
President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right. A favorite ...
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