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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. Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent. The allegations in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court by Keller Rohrback of Seattle and Motley Rice of Connecticut closely mirror the findings of a ProPublica investigation that detailed the secret program operated by the gun industry’s largest trade group. The…
The Israeli military says its air force has carried out its “most powerful strike” in Yemen in response to the Houthi movement’s repeated drone and missile attacks on Israel.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said dozens of its aircraft bombed targets belonging to the Houthis’ security and intelligence services, and military in the capital Sanaa.The Houthi-run government’s health ministry denounced what it called Israel’s “brutal crime”, saying civilian facilities and residential buildings were hit and that eight people were killed.It comes a day after 22 people were injured, two of them seriously, in a Houthi drone attack in the Israeli Red…
Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in on Sept. 25, 1981, becoming the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Five women have been sworn in since then; four of them are still on the court. Morning Reads How the Roberts Court became the Trump Court (Joan Biskupic, CNN) — President Donald Trump has been in office for less than five of Chief Justice John Roberts’ nearly 20 years on the court, but Trump is involved in many of the most pivotal moments of Roberts’ tenure, according to CNN. “Chief justices and presidents have predictably clashed in recent…
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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. The National Institutes of Health has launched a five-year, $37 million stillbirth consortium in a pivotal effort to reduce what it has called the country’s “unacceptably high” stillbirth rate. The announcement last week thrilled doctors, researchers and families and represented a commitment by the agency to prioritize stillbirth, the death of an expected child at 20 weeks or more. “What we’re really excited about is not only the investment in trying to prevent stillbirth, but also continuing that…
Gavin Butler,Muhamad IrhamBBC Indonesia, Jakarta andYuli SaputraBBC Indonesia, West JavaYuli SaputraThousands of school children have suffered food poisoning from a controversial free lunches programme since JanuaryMore than 1,000 children have fallen ill from free school lunches in Indonesia this week, according to authorities – the latest in a string of mass food poisoning events linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar nutritious meals programme.Yuyun Sarihotima, head of West Java’s Cipongkor Community Health Center, told BBC Indonesia that the total number of poisoning victims recorded between Monday and Wednesday had reached 1,074.It follows the poisoning of 800 students last week in West…
Some sentences reproach without a single accusatory word. “The captain was sober today” impugns by implication. The officer who logs this superfluous statement damns the captain further with the surrounding entries that omit it. Here’s another: “The denial of the application is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.” That’s a new one for us, though collectively we’ve been studying and teaching about the U.S. Supreme Court for 40 years. The Supreme Court squeezed that sentence between four others to deny a stay in South Carolina v. Doe on Sept. 10. The anonymous…
From tech giants to food expos, these mega exhibitions are about to bring the crowds (and the traffic) to Dubai World Trade CentreDubai’s events calendar is stacked for the months ahead, and if you’ve driven past Dubai World Trade Centre during a major exhibition, you already know what that means: busy halls, packed car parks, and some seriously slow-moving traffic. If you want to avoid being the innocent bystander and skip the rush, or if you’re planning to attend, here’s your heads-up on the biggest events coming to DWTC — and when to steer clear.World Congress for Self-Driving Transport 2025Dates:…
Nomsa MasekoBBC Africa, LilongweAFP via Getty ImagesPeter Mutharika brought down inflation in his first term and now has to do the same againMalawi’s former President Peter Mutharika has been declared the winner of last week’s elections, in a huge comeback for the 85-year-old. Official results show that he won 57% of the vote, compared to the 33% of President Lazarus Chakwera, 70. Chakwera, a pastor before entering politics, conceded defeat ahead of the final result being declared, phoning Mutharika to congratulate him on his “historic win”.Mutharika, a former professor of law, served as president from 2014 to 2020, when he…
On this day in 1789, President George Washington signed the Federal Judiciary Act into law, establishing the federal court system. We suggest you celebrate by reading SCOTUSblog. Morning Reads Supreme Court decision on Donald Trump’s firing of Lisa Cook looms over the Fed (Claire Jones, Adam Samson, and Lauren Fedor, Financial Times) — Federal Reserve leaders are anxiously awaiting the Supreme Court’s response to the Trump administration’s request to be allowed to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook. “Officials are increasingly worried that if the Supreme Court allows for Cook’s removal, even temporarily, it will give the president the green light…