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Happy Halloween to those who celebrate! Did you know that Halloween helped Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett connect when Barrett first joined the court? Barrett has repeatedly shared the story of Sotomayor making candy bags for her kids after her confirmation. SCOTUS Quick Hits We’re less than one week away from the start of the court’s November sitting. On Wednesday, we previewed Rico v. United States and Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, which will be argued on Monday. Yesterday, we previewed Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton and The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist, which are…

Traffic in Dubai is getting busier every year, and several factors are behind the growing congestionFrom more people and cars to road works and new transport options, here’s what is affecting traffic in Dubai…More people are living in DubaiDubai’s population reached 4 million in August 2025. That’s an increase of more than 223,000 residents in just one year. To give some context, the city had 3.77 million people in 2024 and 3.61 million in 2023. Dubai’s population has more than doubled since 2011, when it was 1.93 million. With more residents comes more demand on the roads and public transport.Image:…

The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship. The plan, outlined in a public notice posted Thursday, is the latest step in an unprecedented Trump administration initiative to pool confidential data from varied sources that it claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls, tighten immigration enforcement and expose public benefit fraud. According to emails obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, DHS approached Texas officials in June about a pilot program to add the state’s driver license data, but…

French actor Tchéky Karyo, who had a starring role in the film Nikita and the TV series The Missing, has died aged 72.Karyo, who was born in Turkey but grew up in Paris, died of a cancer on Friday, his agent told AFP news agency. Known largely for supporting roles, Karyo acted in films for nearly four decades, finding a second career in TV series in his final years.First making his mark in crime thriller La Balance (1982), he played the handler Bob in Luc Besson’s assassin film Nikita (1990).BBC audiences may chiefly remember him for his role as the…

YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.Other channels that vanished from Google’s pay TV platform include the Disney Channel, FX and Nat Geo.Google’s pay TV platform said in a blog post late Thursday that Disney had followed through on a threat to suspend its content amid the negotiations.The breakdown could impact coverage of some college football games on Saturday, as well as NBA, NFL and NHL games.YouTube is the largest internet TV provider in the U.S. with more than nine million…

Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Lawyers have long played an outsized role in American policymaking. Almost two-thirds of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were trained in the law, more than half of U.S. presidents have been lawyers, and even today half of current U.S. Senators were practicing attorneys.  Less visibly but still important, lawyers overpopulate congressional committee staff positions, state-level legislation-drafting departments, and executive-branch general-counsel offices, which (policymakers quickly learn) provide policy as well as legal advice. Even in the public square, once attorneys speak up and invoke some legal principle, non-lawyers…

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Reporting Highlights No Age Preference: Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that. New Work World: The administration contends that injured laborers have more access to technology and more nonphysical job options than in the past. Red State Blues: Under the plan, millions — particularly in states that voted for Trump — could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. It’s never been easy to…

Will Grant,Correspondent, Montego Bay, Nick Davis,Kingston and Brandon DrenonWatch: Before and after footage shows the destruction Hurricane Melissa caused to St John’s Anglican church, a 300-year-old churchAt least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon has said, as search and rescue efforts continue and authorities try to get aid to hard-hit areas.The hurricane, one of the most powerful to strike the Caribbean, has also killed at least 30 people in Haiti, officials said.In Jamaica, “there are entire communities that seem to be marooned and areas that seem to be flattened”,…

Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to visit China as the pair met on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea on Friday.Xi’s invitation, offered during brief remarks at the beginning of the meeting, marks a significant thaw in relations between the two countries.Carney accepted and said he is very much looking forward to a visit to China, which would be the first such official visit by a Canadian prime minister since Justin Trudeau’s attempt to launch trade talks in 2017.”It’s through this constructive and pragmatic dialogue that we will address a…