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The Trump administration on Monday afternoon asked the Supreme Court to pause an order by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., that temporarily reinstated the top U.S. copyright official after her firing earlier this year. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer called the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit “another case of improper judicial interference with the President’s power to remove executive officers.” The head of the U.S. Copyright Office is known as the Register of Copyrights, and she is the primary adviser to Congress on copyright issues. The Register of Copyrights…
Whether you’re dressing up for a spooky night out or hosting your own haunted bash, Halloween costumes are a mustWe’ve rounded up three online stores for quick and easy shopping for Halloween costumes, plus three in-store spots if you’d rather browse the aisles in person for the perfect spooky look.Online storesAmazon Need a costume in a hurry? Amazon offers free next-day delivery and even same-day options on selected items, so last-minute shoppers are sorted. You’ll find everything from witches’ hats and vampire fangs to full costumes and accessories – all just a few clicks away. Website: amazon.aenoon Noon’s Halloween section…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Lawmakers at the helm of the Senate Special Committee on Aging have proposed a sweeping series of changes that could transform the way the government safeguards the quality of essential generic drugs. Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, the senators said the Food and Drug Administration should alert hospitals and other group purchasers when foreign drugmakers with serious safety and quality failures are given a special pass to send their products to the United States. Since 2013, ProPublica found,…
AFP via Getty ImagesEfforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in GazaIsrael has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza.The Israeli prime minister’s office said the coffin would be taken from Gaza back to Israel, where DNA testing would be used to identify the remains.If confirmed, Hamas will have returned 16 of the 28 Israeli or foreign hostages it was holding before the start of a ceasefire two weeks ago.The latest handover came after the Israeli government said it had allowed…
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he’s hoping to reset expectations in Canada’s relationship with China when he meets President Xi Jinping this week at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea.The meeting will be the first between the leaders of both nations since diplomatic relations went into a deep freeze following the 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou after an extradition request from the United States. Beijing responded by locking up two Canadians — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.Carney confirmed the meeting while talking to reporters at the end of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.“It’s…
Thank you to everyone who answered our call for feedback about this newsletter — we deeply and truly appreciate it. We received some great suggestions and will be incorporating some of them in the weeks ahead. SCOTUS Quick Hits We’re one week away from the start of the court’s November sitting. We’ll be publishing previews of the cases scheduled to be argued throughout this week. Several cases on the interim docket are fully briefed and awaiting the court’s ruling, including the Trump administration’s request to be allowed to federalize and deploy the National Guard in Illinois. Tonight, Justice Ketanji Brown…
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Carl Steiner walked to the window of a small gray building near downtown Phoenix and gave a worker his name. He stepped away with a box and a cellphone bill. The box is what Steiner had come for: It contained black and red Reebok sneakers to use in his new warehouse job. Steiner doesn’t have a permanent address. His letters and packages are delivered to a mail room for…
The UN has called for safe passage for trapped civilians out of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher after paramilitary fighters announced they had seized control of the army’s main base there. Sudan’s military has not acknowledged loss of the site, which would be a significant victory for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing civil war. UN chief Antonio Guterres said the latest fighting marked a “terrible escalation” in the conflict, adding that the suffering of civilians was “unbearable”, AFP news agency reports.El-Fasher is the last army foothold in the vast western region of Darfur, and has been besieged…
Mahmoud Abu Foul returned to Gaza after spending more than nine months in Israeli detention. But when he was back on home soil, amid hundreds of people who had gathered to greet the released detainees, he could not even look around to find his family because he lost his eyesight while imprisoned.The 28-year-old Palestinian, who lost his left leg in a 2015 Israeli airstrike, said he was subjected to repeated beatings and torture at a notorious Israeli military prison that left him blind.“I walked out of prison, wishing and dreaming that I could see even with just one eye,” Abu…