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White House is taking on corporate mergers, landlord junk fees
Top Stories & Analysis 07/21/2023The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new guidelines for corporate mergers, took steps to disclose the junk fees charged by landlords and launched a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry.The announcements will be discussed as part ...
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Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care
Supreme Court News 07/17/2023A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk in the coming ...
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Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules
Top Stories & Analysis 07/13/2023Amazon is disputing its status as a big online platform that needs to face stricter scrutiny under European Union digital rules taking effect next month, the first Silicon Valley tech giant to push back on the pioneering new standards.The online reta...
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Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says
National News 07/08/2023Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect — at least for now — after a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily reversed a lower court ruling.Last month, a district court judge in Tenness...
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Man gets life sentence for raping 9-year-old Ohio girl
Courts and the Judiciary 07/06/2023A man who confessed to raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that became a national flashpoint on abortion rights because the girl had to travel out of state to end the pregnancy.Gerson Fuentes,...
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Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect
Courts and the Judiciary 07/02/2023A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties.Th...
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Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family
National News 06/28/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the family of a nursing home resident with dementia that had sued over his care, declining to use the case to broadly limit the right to sue government workers.The man’s family went to court alleging that...
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Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in dispute with makers of dog toy
Courts and the Judiciary 06/24/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday gave whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s reason to raise a glass, handing the company a new chance to win a trademark dispute with the makers of the Bad Spaniels dog toy.In announcing the decision for a unanimous court, Ju...
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Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton
National News 06/21/2023An appeals court in New Jersey has tossed out the convictions of a man sentenced to 55 years in prison after being tried as a teenager in the 2016 death of a girl who was shot in a minivan as she and other juveniles were riding around Trenton.The cou...
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Federal court sides with lobster fishers in whale protection case
Courts and the Judiciary 06/17/2023A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen who say proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale could put them out of business.The fishermen harvest lobsters and crabs off New England and oppose tough new restri...
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters
National News 06/12/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting...
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Southern Indiana man bolts from courtroom before capture
Top Stories & Analysis 06/07/2023A man sentenced to 200 days in jail for a probation violation bolted from a southern Indiana courtroom and tried to escape before two shocks from a stun gun brought him down, police said.Trevin Littlejohn, 35, of Columbus, faces a new charge of resis...