A three-week case focused on whether Google’s monopoly on search engines should be broken up will begin Monday, as the company warns that the Justice Department is throwing “caution to the wind.” District Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled last summer that Google had a monopoly on online search. “Google is a monopolist, and it has […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is warning that the high court is moving too quickly on politically fraught cases, raising concerns in a dissent that the justices are short-circuiting proper judicial review over expediency. Alito’s fiery rebuke came Saturday evening, nearly 24 hours after his colleagues allowed an emergency order halting the Trump administration’s plan to […]
Former Fox News host Steve Hilton filed to run for California governor as a Republican. Hilton has been mulling a run for the governor’s office for weeks and has yet to announce his candidacy. However, the California Secretary of State website listed “Hilton for Governor” as a campaign committee registered with the state. He also […]
Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clarify what kind of legal notice their clients, alleged Tren de Aragua members, should receive before they are deported under the Alien Enemies Act. The attorneys provided what they described as a “startling list of deficiencies” in the notices they believed […]
Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke that put him in a coma and led to irreversible heart failure, the Vatican announced Monday afternoon. Professor Andrea Arcangeli, director of the Directorate of Health and Hygiene of the Vatican City State, confirmed Francis’s cause of death in a report. Francis suffered from a history of acute […]
The Supreme Court rejected a Minnesota appeal regarding the state’s attempt to prevent young adults from obtaining permits to carry firearms in public. Minnesota appealed a ruling that said a law banning 18 to 20-year-olds from applying for such permits violated the Second Amendment, which gives citizens the right to bear arms. The court’s decision […]
A Delta Air Lines flight was evacuated Monday morning after one of its engines caught on fire. The flight was pushing back from the gate ahead of departure from Orlando International Airport around 11:15 a.m. when an engine caught fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Passengers were seen exiting the plane via emergency evacuation […]
(The Center Square) – With the clock counting down on the Florida Legislature’s session, lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis will have to come to a compromise if tax relief legislation is to become law. The session is scheduled to end on May 2 and the two Republican majority chambers are considerably far apart on tax […]
(The Center Square) – Opponents of Senate Bill 2482 and House Bill 3717 argue that allowing community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees could dilute education quality and duplicate existing university programs, despite claims it would expand access and address workforce needs. State Rep. Paul Jacobs, R-Pomona, who serves on the House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee, said […]
(The Center Square) – Michigan high school students could get more flexibility in graduation requirements and a new program could be used to focus on reading in lower grades. It’s all part of a four-bill package that recently passed the House of Representatives aimed at education reforms. Now, it’s up to the state Senate to […]
