A shareholder for a company with an all-male board is suing California over a law that requires public companies to have women on their boards, arguing that it is unconstitutional and forces him to consider candidates based on sex. The ...
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department inspector general’s office told witnesses set to review draft sections of its long-awaited report on the FBI investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign that they would not be allowed to submit written feedback, but ...
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed Steven Menashi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York, after a bruising fight in which Democrats – including Menashi’s two home state senators – sharply criticized the nominee’s record. ...
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Read More »New York law requires authorities, including the New York City Police Department, to destroy arrested juveniles’ fingerprints. For years, though, the NYPD ignored the legislative mandate and illegally kept a fingerprint database, affecting tens of thousands of children, many of ...
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WASHINGTON – Congress can seek eight years of President Donald Trump’s tax records, according to a federal appeals court order Wednesday that moves the separation-of-powers conflict one step closer to the Supreme Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that pits a black media mogul against Comcast, accusing the cable giant of violating Reconstruction-era protections against racial bias. Byron Allen filed his $20 billion lawsuit under ...
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Mina Chang sports a subtle smile on the cover of a Time magazine “Special Edition,” with a swaggering headline that reads, “We change the world: Modern humanitarian in the digital age.” The cover shot was among the photographs Chang brought ...
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court argument session, staying home with what a court spokeswoman said was a stomach virus. Chief Justice John Roberts said from the bench that Ginsburg, 86, was “indisposed due to illness” but ...
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After Terrance Lewis of Philadelphia had spent more than 12 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, filing his own appeals and trying to win his freedom, a federal judge held an extensive hearing and in 2010 ...
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It all started with a handbag. Maryana Beyder’s wasn’t just any ordinary bag, though. It was a pink Hermès Kelly clutch, since discontinued by the pricey French fashion house. Beyder’s husband had gifted her the purse, worth $30,000, as a ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down an appeal from the gun industry intended to block a lawsuit from families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. The decision lets stand a groundbreaking ruling from the Connecticut ...
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration told the Supreme Court Tuesday that it has decided that the program that shields from deportation young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children should end regardless of its legality, and there would ...
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