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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. The Connecticut Senate on Friday overwhelmingly passed the most significant reform to the state’s towing policies in decades, a measure lawmakers said would help protect drivers from predatory towing. House Bill 7162 overhauls the state’s century-old towing statutes and comes in response to an investigation by the Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica that showed how state towing laws have come to favor tow companies at the expense of drivers. It takes several steps…
Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for her role on the popular comedy TV series M*A*S*H, died on Friday, according to her representative.She died at her home in New York at age 87, her publicist Harlan Boll told the BBC. She likely died of natural causes, although a coroner’s report is pending.On M*A*S*H, Swit played US Army nurse Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan. The series, which followed a mobile Army surgical hospital during the Korean war, ran for 11 seasons from 1974 to 1983.Swit was nominated for numerous awards, and appeared in nearly every episode of the series, including…
Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif must undergo genetic sex screening to participate in upcoming events with the sport’s new governing body.World Boxing announced mandatory sex testing for all athletes Friday. The governing body specifically mentioned Khelif when announcing the policy, saying the Algerian gold medal winner must be screened before she will be approved to fight at any upcoming events, including the Eindhoven Box Cup next month in the Netherlands.”The introduction of mandatory testing will be part of a new policy on `Sex, Age and Weight’ to ensure the safety of all participants and deliver a competitive level playing field…
The Supreme Court on Friday morning cleared the way for the Trump administration to revoke the Biden administration’s grant of parole – that is, permission to stay in the United States for humanitarian or public interest reasons – to more than 500,000 noncitizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In a brief unsigned order, the justices paused a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that had temporarily barred the federal government from implementing the decision by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem while a challenge to it moves forward. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from Friday’s order, in an eight-page…
Home Daily News AI-hallucinated cases end up in more court… Law Firms AI-hallucinated cases end up in more court filings, and Butler Snow issues apology for ‘inexcusable’ lapse By Debra Cassens Weiss May 27, 2025, 2:37 pm CDT Butler Snow is asking a federal judge to exempt its government client from sanctions for the law firm’s use of incorrect citations generated by artificial intelligence in two documents filed with the court. (Image from Shutterstock) Butler Snow is asking a federal judge to exempt its government client from sanctions for the law firm’s use of incorrect citations generated by artificial intelligence…
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. It’s also co-published with Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Rebel Alliance Investigates), a coalition of Venezuelan online media outlets, and Cazadores de Fake News (Fake News Hunters), a Venezuelan investigative online news organization. The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the…
A suspect wanted for the murder of a South African university student has been killed in a shootout with the police. The man was linked to the death of Olorato Mongale, whose body was found in Johannesburg on Sunday, about two hours after she was reported missing having gone on a date.In the early hours of Friday morning, police officers found the main suspect hiding at a residential complex in the coastal town of Amanzimtoti, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said.The suspect, who has not been named by the police, shot at the officers, who returned fire and killed him, Brigadier…
King Charles is enjoying a popularity boost and there is considerably more support for maintaining Canada’s ties to the Crown now than when he assumed the throne, according to public opinion polls released this week around his two-day visit to deliver a historic throne speech.After the long-reigning and hugely popular Queen Elizabeth died in 2022, there was talk across the Commonwealth realms, including in Canada, about whether it was time to do away with the Crown and embrace republicanism.The U.K.-based Lord Ashcroft firm released a poll ahead of Charles’s coronation showing particularly dire levels of support for the monarchy in Canada, finding…
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. This week it disposed of four. It was good news for the petitioner in Fernandez v. United States, involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for “extraordinary and compelling reasons.” The court will consider whether those “extraordinary and compelling reasons” include doubt about guilt that may also be alleged as grounds for vacatur of a sentence under 28 U.S.C.…