Tagged: SCOTUS

LONDON (AP) - South African tennis player Kevin Anderson has had surgery on his right knee and will be out for an unspecified period of time. The two-time Grand Slam finalist wrote on Twitter on Friday that he had surgery Wednesday on a torn meniscus. Anderson said he injured his ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Associated Press national writer Eddie Pells won two awards, including story of the year, in the annual sports journalism contest judged by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Pells’ story on the investigation leading to track coach Alberto Salazar’s four-year ban earned story of the year ...

HONOLULU (AP) - The Honolulu City Councilhas approved a plan to relocate the Oahu Community Correctional Center. The council unanimously approved a permit to move the facility from Kalihi to Halawa, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday. The project still requires funding from state lawmakers. But it is considered a priority ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Oahu experienced its hottest year on record in 2019, according tofederal officials and municipal authorities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the island reached its highest temperatures last yearand the National Weather Service said 273 daily temperature records were tied or broken across the state,Hawaii Public ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Efforts to expel a controversial state representative from the Washington Legislature are likely over after no Republicans would sign a letter calling for state Rep. Matt Shea's expulsion. The Spokesman-Review reports that all 98 members of the state House of Representatives were asked Thursday to sign ...

MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi man on trial in the 2017 shooting deaths of eight people had previously helped two of those who were killed, his brother testified Thursday. Willie Cory Godbolt cared deeply for his cousin’s son, 18-year-old Jordan Blackwell, and Jordan’s cousin, 11-year-old Austin Edwards, said his ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - More than 50 personnel at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas may have been exposed to dangerous levels of a compound linked to cancer that was found inside an aircraft hangar last year, according to internal memos. Contamination by hexavalent chrominium, the subject of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The new labor agreement accepted by NFL owners and now being considered by players features a 17-game season, shorter preseason, larger rosters and limits on the number of international games. The NFL Players Association's executive committee and player representatives are to discuss the proposal Friday by ...

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Officials for Washington State University say the school plans to hire an outside lawyer to review how administrators treated the school’s former provost, who described receiving sexist performance evaluations and other resistance before leaving the position last fall. Mitzi Montoya served as WSU’s provost and executive ...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - A jury has convicted a man in a fatal knife attack at a residential care facility in Kenosha in 2015. But rather than being sent to prison, Marcel Kudzin will be sent to a mental health facility because the state has stipulated that Kudzin is ...

U.S. stock futures were pointing to a lower Wall Street open, with the Dow heading for its first down week in February.

The United States and the Taliban will sign an agreement on Feb. 29 at the end of a week-long period of violence reduction in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Taliban said on Friday.

That's contrary to the conventional Street wisdom which ties the low rates and money-printing to a market bull run that is less than a month away from its 11th anniversary

As of Friday, more than 76,700 cases of coronavirus have been reported, resulting in at least 2,249 deaths.

Warren Buffett's annual letter comes out this weekend. Of great interest will be whether the Oracle of Omaha has found the "elephant-sized" acquisition he wished for 12 months ago.

A discussion of what's moving the market on Friday, including the coronavirus.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Deere, Coca-Cola, Chewy, First Solar, and more.

Central bank officials have indicated that they are content to keep policy on hold as they watch economic developments play out.

Advanced Micro Devices' rally is powering off, and one trader says the charts point to major downside ahead.

Wells Fargo is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department over previously disclosed probes into its sales practices, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

The second episode of our miniseries “Fakeout” takes us to India, where viral rumors spread on WhatsApp led to death.

This is a classic case of "Deceptive Editing," under the rubric established in The Fact Checker's guide to manipulated video.

Here's a roundup of seven claims from the ninth Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign.

The president made 179 factual claims at his longest rally to date. We found that 67 percent were false or unsupported by evidence.

Presumption of innocence. Adjudication by a neutral arbiter. Fair proceedings. Every American knows that these rights, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, protect us against unjust or arbitrary exercises of government power.

On Monday, Jeff Bezos announced the creation of the Bezos Earth Fund, which will disperse $10 billion in the name of combatting climate change. The fund is a triumph of philanthropy-and a perfect emblem of a national failing.

Despite holding more power, wealth and influence than ever before, China's government is rotting from within. Beijing's handling of the coronavirus makes that clear. Such an outbreak would have taxed the resources of any nation, but Xi Jinping's China is not just another country. It is a high-tech authoritarian state experimenting with complete social control. […]

If personnel is indeed policy, as the Heritage Foundation likes to argue, an imminent staffing change at the think tank could have significant repercussions for the conservative movement and the future of Republican presidential politics.

After watching the Las Vegas Democratic debate, it's becoming less and less clear how the Democrats plan to defeat, or even challenge, President Donald Trump this fall. As a conservative Republican watching just for kicks, the debate was amazing -- tons of drama and entertainment value. But if you are a Democrat committed to getting […]

LAS VEGAS-Faced with signs that Bernie Sanders is consolidating his position as the clear front-runner in the Democratic race, the presidential candidates last night chose to focus most of their fire instead at the new guy onstage: Michael Bloomberg.

The presidential candidate debate Wednesday night showed that Democrats simply have no idea how to defeat President Trump in the November election - and their frustration was on full display.

Back in the 1800s, the expression pull oneself up by the bootstraps meant the opposite of what it does now. Then it was used mockingly to describe an impossible act.

Weaponizing the American dream to convince Americans that the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness can only be revived by a single man is unprecedented in our country.

Roger Stone's trial judge did us a favor by laying out the facts in the case against the Trump ally and dirty trickster.

Several Fox News anchors and pundits have come to the defense of longtime Fox News and Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto calling him an "outstanding man" and "an utmost journalist" after he faced criticism from President Tr...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign is unveiling a series of attack-based billboards targeting President Trump in Phoenix and Las Vegas ahead of Trump campaign stops on Friday.The billboards, wh...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in an interview slammed former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his performance in this week's Democratic primary debate performance, saying he thinks that President Trump would "chew him u...

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) on Friday said that he's not interested in a job as director of national intelligence, despite President Trump floating the idea the previous day."This is not a job that interests me; at this time it's not one...

A Texas woman who was sentenced in 2017 to eight years in prison for illegally voting now faces deportation to Mexico.Rosa Maria Ortega, 40, was granted parole in December after serving nine months of her sentence....

Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.What better platform than The Ellen DeGeneres Show for Pete Buttigieg to share his unvarnished thoughts about Rush Limbaugh? During the 2020 hopeful’s swing through Los Angeles on Thursday, he made his second appearance on the daytime talk show, this time near the top of the Democratic field. With that increased confidence, Buttigieg […]

Rexburg Police DepartmentThe d0omsday-obsessed mother of two missing children was arrested in Hawaii on Thursday for failing to comply with a court order to produce her 17-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son.Lori Vallow has refused to cooperate with Idaho authorities investigating the disappearance of Tylee Ryan and her adopted brother J.J. almost five months ago.She and […]

President Donald Trump has once again taken aim at a Fox News host for being insufficiently loyal to him, mocking anchor Neil Cavuto at a Colorado rally on Thursday night hours after blasting him on Twitter over a segment about Trump’s “cringeworthy” 2016 debate performances.Fox News contributor Richard Fowler and anchor Ed Henry, however, jumped […]

Alex Wong/Getty“The truth still exists; the truth still matters,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Thursday at the sentencing of the president’s favorite dirty trickster, Roger Stone. It may have seemed like an obvious statement, but as Trumpworld continues its assault on the rule of law, things like the truth mattering seem slightly obscured by the […]

Several Afghanistan experts, including the former commanding general of U.S. forces in the region and the chairman of the violence-plagued country’s biggest and most influential news media outlet, expressed outrage Thursday after the New York Times published the uncontradicted peace-talk musings of a man who is arguably one of the world’s most accomplished terrorists.“It’s a […]

Photo Courtesy Jan VersweyveldIt can be a muffling word, “classic”—as West Side Story is often described. Yes, it has been around a while, is influential, and much-loved. But it is not a “classic” as in safe object set in aspic. The original 1957 Broadway musical—a redo of Romeo and Juliet set on New York’s streets, […]

Adam Glanzman/BloombergBernie Sanders on Wednesday raised the possibility that social media accounts harassing his critics may, in fact, be Russian bots operating in disguise. But top security officials say they've seen no such activity. The platforms themselves hinted the same. And experts in the field are now saying that the Senator's inference may cause harm […]

Kevin Lamarque/ReutersIntelligence officials briefed House lawmakers last week that Russian actors were interfering in the 2020 elections, once more to the benefit of Donald Trump. The contents of the briefing, which was first reported by The New York Times, sparked a series of dramatic events that have further eroded relations between Hill Democrats and the […]

When I sat down to start researching outdoor home security cameras, I assumed I’d be overwhelmed with good options and struggle to choose between them. But instead, I found myself drudging through negative reviews and complicated installation manuals. My friends gave me glowing recommendations of several different systems but none of them seemed to meet […]

Mario Tama/Getty ImagesMichael Bloomberg claimed during Wednesday night’s contentious Democratic primary debate that women at his company “get paid exactly the same as men.” But data from parts of his massive media empire suggest the opposite.While Bloomberg L.P. has not publicly released a comprehensive company-wide gender pay study, parts of the ex-mayor’s business media empire […]