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What’s happening with the latest Trump appeals to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will enter a new year Friday but there’s still election drama from 2020 on its pla...
Tracy Chapman Wins Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj
Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman has won her case against hip-hop star Nicki Minaj over Chapman’s cla...
Two US neo-Nazis from ‘the Base’ jailed for terrorist plot
US District Judge Theodore Chuang said the recording showed the “virulence” of their desire to kill ...
Texas nurse guilty of killing patients by injecting them with air
Prosecutors said he targeted seven people from June 2017 to January 2018...
UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US
“We stand by this advice and would urge all food business operators, when seeking to use imported fo...
FDA approves e-cigarette in US for first time
The American Lung Association, which campaigns against smoking, expressed disappointment at the FDA ...
White House commission on Supreme Court reforms sees risks in expanding court
Biden signed an executive order in April creating the 36-member bipartisan commission in response to...
Finn’s Law: Five years after stabbing, ex-police dog is still campaigning
“In the future, we hope to do more to raise awareness of animal welfare issues, and as ever, Finn wi...
Expedite action on the bill to abolish death penalty-UNA-GH
At the end of 2020, at least 28,567 people were known to be under sentence of death. Of this figure,...
Ohio police probed after man screaming ‘I’m paraplegic’ dragged from car
Jerome Dix, president of Dayton Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 44, said they had “followed the law,...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott bans mandatory vaccination in state
Facebook and Google, which employ a large number of people in the state, have also told employees th...
Man who faked own death over Covid relief scam sentenced
David Staveley falsely claimed to co-own four large businesses in need of nearly $544,000 (£399,000)...
US couple accused of selling nuclear submarine secrets
They allegedly tried to sell nuclear submarine design data, hidden in a peanut butter sandwich, to s...
Global tax deal seeks to end havens, criticized for ‘no teeth’
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Paris would use its European Union presidency during the...
US lawmakers call for crackdown on financial ‘enablers’ after Pandora Papers revelations
If passed, the law would give the Treasury Department until December 2023 to create anti-money-laund...
Amazon sued by warehouse workers over COVID-19 screening pay
Walmart has raised the same defense in a proposed class action in Arizona federal court claiming the...
Chris Brown, Drake sued for copyright infringement
The singer and producer are suing for copyright infringement and are looking for big damages....
U.S. charges 18 former NBA players with defrauding league’s health plan
n a statement, the NBA said it will cooperate with prosecutors, calling the accusations “particularl...
Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech
Stanford law professor Nate Persily, who has previously worked directly with Facebook on academic pa...
US judge temporarily blocks Texas’ near-total abortion ban in blow to contentious law
On Monday, the US supreme court begins a new term, which in December will include arguments in Missi...
Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells
Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement to CNN, said that what happened to Lacks in 1951 “would not h...
‘You can’t sue your way to the moon’-Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos
“I’ve spent my entire career working to extend people’s lives. However, with limited materials and e...
R. Kelly found guilty of racketeering in sex trafficking case
Known for the 1996 Grammy-winning smash “I Believe I Can Fly,” Kelly, 54, pleaded not guilty to a ra...
Trump sues niece, New York Times over tax story
“The walls are closing in and he is throwing anything against the wall that will stick,” she told th...
Linda Evangelista files $50M lawsuit over disfiguring cosmetic treatment
PAH has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent me into a cycle of deep depression, profound s...
