Guantanamo hunger strike renews debates over indefinite detention, ethics of force-feeding Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block. The detainees are offered a hot meal or a liquid nutritional supplement and, if they refuse, they are strapped into a chair. More
Pentagon to Allow Apple, Samsung Devices The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant two separate, security approvals for Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, along with iPhones and iPads running Apple's latest operating system. More
High court signals skepticism on patenting genes In a Supreme Court test of whether a company can be granted a patent on the genes in the human body, a majority of the justices indicated during Monday's oral arguments that the court is likely to rule that a human gene can’t be patented. More
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Supreme Court to Hear Trump Immunity Case, and Campus Protests Spread Supreme Court to Hear Trump’s Claim to ‘Absolute Immunity,’ by Adam Liptak Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case, by Danny Hakim and Maggie Haberman ... 04/24/2024 - 9:09 pm | View Link
Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump presidential immunity case The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case. The high court ... 04/24/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Can Trump be tried for election interference? Supreme Court to hear historic immunity case Thursday This is the last case argued before the court this term and could be one of the last decided before the justices adjourn for the summer. The court’s decision to hear Trump’s appeal ... 04/24/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
How Trump's immunity case got to the Supreme Court: A full timeline Smith asks the high court to intervene in the case before the D.C. Circuit can hear arguments on whether Trump is entitled to sweeping immunity and issue a decision. Dec. 13: Chutkan grants Trump ... 04/23/2024 - 10:08 am | View Link
Pop superstar Beyoncé gave Vice President Kamala Harris tickets worth $1,656 to one of her shows in 2023, according to financial disclosures released by the White House that provide detailed information on the finances of President Joe Biden, his running mate, first lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
The documents list the values of their assets and provide their income and debts in broad ranges.
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastline.
Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the reality of climate change threats in Florida, including projections of rising seas, extreme heat and flooding and increasingly severe storms.
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It takes effect July 1 and would also boost expansion of natural gas, reduce regulation on gas pipelines in the state and increase protections against bans on gas appliances such as stoves, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
DeSantis, who suspended his presidential campaign in January and later endorsed his bitter rival Donald Trump, called the bill a common-sense approach to energy policy.
“We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots,” DeSantis said in a post on the X social media platform.
Florida is already about 74% reliant on natural gas to power electric generation, according to the U.
Erstwhile GOP presidential candidate and current vice-presidential hopeful Ben Carson has joined right-wing peers like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in supporting the end—or at least the rolling back—of no-fault divorce laws across the nation.
“For the sake of families,” the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development wrote in his book, The Perilous Fight, released Tuesday, “We should enact legislation to remove or radically reduce incidences of no-fault divorce.”
Over the past year, I have been tracking the rise of men on the right, both elected and civilian, who think it ought to be harder to get divorced in this country.
To the extent that nothing is too small for the left to despoil, it’s up to each of us to act (legally, of course) to stop those depredations, for even the small ones add up.