(Headline USA) A private port operator in the San Francisco Bay Area that stores coal from Utah before it's shipped to Asia has been given until 2027 to continue those operations under terms of a settlement.
Officials in Richmond, where the port is located, agreed to the deal with the...
(Headline USA) In closing statements Monday prior to jury deliberations, prosecutor Thomas Binger reportedly pointed an AR-15 directly at the jury with his finger on the trigger.
Look at this goofball with his finger on the trigger pointed at a courtroom full of people. pic.twitter.com/th5eARTaPT
— Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) November...
(Headline USA) The Race-Hustling Rev. Jesse Jackson joined Ahmaud Arbery’s parents Monday at the trial of three Georgia men charged with murdering their son.
The intrusion prompted an unsuccessful request by a defense attorney to have the civil rights leader removed.
Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael armed themselves and...
(Headline USA) After disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly died by suicide behind bars, a judge invited his accusers to court to vent their anger at a man they called a coward for taking his own life to escape accountability for sexually abusing them.
The coming weeks will still see, in...
(Headline USA) Attorneys were set to make closing arguments Monday at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial in the shootings of three men during Antifa-led riots in Kenosha Wisconsin, the last word before a jury begins deliberating in a case that underscored Americans' bitter divisions on issues of guns, protests and policing.
Rittenhouse,...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Multiple lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration over three different vaccine mandates targeting private employees, federal employees and healthcare workers serving Medicare and Medicaid patients.
But lawsuits filed by 27 states over the private sector mandate is setting the stage for the U.S....
(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) A federal appeals court late Friday ordered the Biden administration to stop implementation of its private sector vaccine mandate until legal challenges work their way through the court system.
The ruling, from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, comes in response...
(Headline USA) A former “Apprentice" contestant who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault dropped her defamation lawsuit against him Friday.
Summer Zervos sued the then-president in New York state court in 2017, saying he damaged her reputation when he said she and other women alleging sexual assault and...
(Headline USA) The defense rested its case Thursday at the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, setting the stage for closing arguments Monday.
Rittenhouse's lawyers put on about 2 1/2 days of testimony to the prosecution's five, with the most riveting moment coming when the 18-year-old told the jury that he...
(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is leading a third multi-state coalition in a lawsuit against a federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates, this time for health care workers who serve Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Schmitt and fellow Republican Attorney General Doug Peterson of Nebraska gathered a group...
(Brett Davis, The Center Square) An unusual public records request from the office of Gov. Jay Inslee may be related to today’s Washington State Supreme Court ruling that partial vetoes Inslee made in the 2019 transportation budget were unconstitutional.
The public records request targeted four Democratic state senators---Reuven Carlyle, Steve...
As Democrats remain terrified of the prospect of a red wave in the 2022 miderm election---and even looking ahead to the 2024 general election---the partisan Justice Department may try to ensure that the most famous figure to emerge from the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol stays safely...