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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah. The justices will review an appeals court ruling that overturned the approval issued by the Surface Transportation Board for the Uinta Basin Railway, an 88-mile (142-kilometer) railroad line.

A federal security officer working at the U. S. Mint in Denver restrained and raped a nurse in the Mint’s health offices in 2022, a lawsuit filed last week in federal court alleges. Both the security officer and the United States government were named as defendants in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.

A man died after a shooting on Friday on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department. Officers responded to a shooting near East Colfax Avenue and Peoria Street around 3:30 a.m. Friday and found a man with a gunshot wound, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department.

Should you have to advocate for ideas not your own? Writing for the majority in Obergefell v. Hodges, the decision that mandated same-sex marriage nationwide, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that same-sex marriage “involve[s] only the rights of two consenting adults” and therefore poses no harm to others who could “continue to advocate” for traditional marriage; their rights are protected under the First Amendment. The First Amendment prevents Congress from making laws that abridge the right to free expression and free exercise of religion and thanks to the 14th Amendment, state and local governments, cannot make such laws either. The flip side to the right to expression is the right to be silent.

From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican Donald Trump, an effort that dovetails with broader conservative preparations for a new White House. Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security.

NEW YORK — Rarely, if ever, has one candidate in a presidential debate had so much material to use against the other. Republican Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts with serious charges in three other indictments still pending. As president, Trump nominated three of the justices who voted to overturn Roe v.