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Just last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a bipartisan chorus of governors in denouncing a Biden administration plan they said would strip states of powers guaranteed to them under federal law. The plan would have transferred Air National Guard units from six states to the U.S. Space Force, the newly created military branch, stoking concerns about federal overreach and the erosion of governors’ control over their own guard forces. Texas wasn’t among the affected states, but Abbott made his opposition unmistakable in an open letter to the president. He called the plan an “intolerable threat that would set a…
Two suicide bombers have attacked the headquarters of a Pakistani paramilitary force on Monday, killing three security officials and wounding at least 12 people.Police told BBC Urdu that the attackers were armed as they charged at the Federal Constabulary’s headquarters in Peshawar in north-western Pakistan.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.The constabulary’s complex is located in a highly secured area in Peshawar, and the attackers would have had to breach multiple levels of security to break in.Witnesses told local media they heard two loud explosions at around 08:10 local time (03:10 GMT) on Monday. The area has been cordoned…
Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before while under house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the 70-year-old former leader’s pre-emptive jailing on Saturday because he’s considered a flight risk. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for attempting a coup to remain…
On this day in 1794, representatives of the U.S. and Great Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, which was named after the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay. Jay had negotiated the terms of the treaty, which aimed to maintain peace between the two countries as tensions continued to simmer more than a decade after the end of the Revolutionary War. SCOTUS Quick Hits On Monday, the Trump administration and lawyers for Illinois and Chicago filed what are expected to be their final briefs on President Donald Trump’s authority to deploy the National Guard to Illinois. The court’s decision in Trump…
Hunched over my desk, surrounded by markups and a neglected dinner gone cold, I pressed on. It was almost sunrise, but despite my blurry vision and aching back, I was determined to power through. I had to perfect the agreement before the partner arrived in a few hours. “Buck up,” my inner voice demanded. “Stop whining and get back to work.” I began my career in BigLaw—where rigor is nonnegotiable, and the stakes feel impossibly high. But the habits that helped me get there—hard work, perfectionism, relentless drive—ultimately drove me away. On the surface, I looked polished and productive. Inside,…
The ultimate cheat sheet to what you should be streaming when the Christmas lights go onTis’ the season to get comfy, hit pause on real life, and binge-watch your way through the holidays. From nostalgic favourites you’ve seen a hundred times to shiny new releases worth adding to your list, we’ve rounded up the must-watch festive films of the season. Consider your ‘Christmas movies to watch this season’ marathon officially sorted.The Christmas Chronicles 1 and 2Streaming on: NetflixIn part 1 of this family-friendly Christmas movie, siblings Kate and Teddy accidentally crash Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve and must team up with…
Our investigation of a little-known church community in northeastern Minnesota started with something that has become depressingly familiar: child sex abuse. ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune found that some members of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Duluth enabled Clint Massie, who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing young girls. Massie is currently in prison in Faribault, Minnesota. The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church — which has no affiliation with mainstream Lutheran denominations and is known as the OALC — is an insular community with many old-world traditions. There is no official count, but one academic study estimated 31,000 members…
Israel’s military has killed a senior member of the militant group Hezbollah in an air strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, despite a ceasefire.It described Haitham Ali al-Tabtabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, as a veteran of the group who had held a series of senior positions.Lebanon’s health ministry said at least five people were killed and 28 others wounded in the strike, which hit an apartment building in the densely populated Dahieh district.Hezbollah confirmed Tabtabai’s death, adding Israel had crossed a “red line” in carrying out the strike.The strike is Israel’s first on southern Beirut for…
Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria’s history.The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Niger state and the proprietor of the…
The SCOTUSblog team reads a lot of legal news each week. Here’s the most memorable headline from the past few days: Go fetch! Judge orders exes to bid on beloved goldendoodle. SCOTUS Quick Hits Former Justice Stephen Breyer is scheduled to speak to students at Suffolk University in Boston this morning. The event is closed to the public. Tomorrow, the justices will take part in a private conference, where they will discuss cases and vote on petitions for review. Mark your calendars: SCOTUSblog will be hosting a live blog during the oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter on Monday, Dec. 8. The…