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US inflation ticked up last month as some price pressures remain persistent
Opinion 12/10/2024Fueled by pricier used cars, hotel rooms and groceries, inflation in the United States moved slightly higher last month in the latest sign that some price pressures remain elevated.Consumer prices rose 2.7% in November from a year earlier, up from a ...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
Opinion 08/05/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Special Education Lawyers in Connecticut - Maya Murphy, P.C.
Opinion 07/10/2024Joseph Maya and the attorneys at Maya Murphy, P.C. practice a range of areas of the law including education and special education law,Parental awareness of a child’s special needs is the best way for the child to exceed expectations and achieve...
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Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court
Opinion 09/29/2020President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effor...
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Supreme Court sides with government in immigration case
Opinion 04/26/2020The Supreme Court is making it harder for noncitizens who are authorized to live permanently in the United States to argue they should be allowed to stay in the country if they've committed crimes.The decision Thursday split the court 5-4 along ideol...
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Judge criticized by abortion foes named to top Kansas court
Opinion 12/17/2019Kansas' Democratic governor on Monday named a veteran trial-court judge who is opposed by the state's most influential anti-abortion group to the state Supreme Court ? an appointment that's likely to further stoke conservatives' efforts to change how...
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Supreme Court steps into Google-Oracle copyright fight
Opinion 11/15/2019The Supreme Court said Friday it will referee a high-profile copyright dispute between technology giants Oracle and Google. Oracle says it wants nearly $9 billion from Google.The case stems from Google’s development of its hugely popular Androi...
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6 appear in court on charges they sent mosque attack images
Opinion 04/08/2019Six people appeared in a New Zealand court Monday on charges they illegally redistributed the video a gunman livestreamed as he shot worshippers at two mosques last month.Christchurch District Court Judge Stephen O’Driscoll denied bail to busin...
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Demonstrators gather for Heathrow expansion court challenge
Opinion 03/06/2019A challenge against British government plans to expand Heathrow Airport through the construction of a third runway has begun in one of the country's highest courts.A coalition of local councils, environmentalists and London residents claim the govern...
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Court tosses permit for pipeline to cross Appalachian Trail
Opinion 12/14/2018A permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests, including parts of the Appalachian Trail, was thrown out Thursday by a federal appeals court that harshly criticized regulators for approving the proposal.A three-judge panel of ...
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US Supreme Court declines to hear Drew Peterson's appeal
Opinion 09/27/2018The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson's appeal of his murder conviction in the drowning death of his third wife.The Chicago Sun-Times reports the high court refused Monday to take up Peterson's b...
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Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution
Opinion 08/07/2018The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state's new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal.The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ra...