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A team of reporters from the nonprofit journalism organizations Invisible Institute and ProPublica have reviewed more than 300 sexual assault and misconduct complaints that were filed over the past decade against Chicago police officers. But experts say that’s likely an undercount. We need your help to understand the scope and scale of this issue. We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual misconduct or sexual assault by Chicago police. For this investigation, we defined police sexual misconduct as sexual assault, unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments, and sexual harassment by police officers either on or off duty. Researchers and…

Prominent music agent Dave Shapiro is among those who were killed after a small plane crashed into a residential street in San Diego, according to his talent company.Mr Shapiro was the co-founder of Sound Talent Group, whose clients include rock bands like Sum 41, Story of the Year and Pierce the Veil.Daniel Williams, former drummer for the metal band The Devil Wears Prada, is also feared to have been involved in the crash. Media reports indicate he posted on social media from the plane.The crash destroyed one home and damaged 10 other buildings in the Murphy Canyon neighbourhood, leaving charred…

Warning: This story contains details about suicideA U.S. federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now.The developers behind Character.AI are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company’s chatbots pushed a teenage boy to kill himself. The judge’s order will allow the wrongful death lawsuit to proceed, in what legal experts say is among the latest constitutional tests of artificial intelligence.The suit was filed by a mother from Florida, Megan Garcia, who alleges that her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III fell victim to a Character.AI chatbot…

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. There are 102 petitions and applications on the Supreme Court’s docket for this week’s conference. After several months of relisting cases at a slow rate, the court has picked up the pace: There are six newly relisted cases this week covering a wide range of subjects. Another commerce clause challenge to California’s Proposition 12 For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court is once again considering a challenge to California’s Proposition 12, a…

U.S. Supreme Court Although oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court usually end in April, on May 15, the Supreme Court will hear its first case—the consolidation of three cases—on the merits challenging a Trump administration policy: whether federal district courts erred in granting nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship in the United States. The question presented in the case indicates that it is about the authority of federal courts and not the merits of the effort to end birthright citizenship: “Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district courts’ preliminary injunctions except as to…

Sponsored: This partnership will increase the UAE’s industrial base, tech innovation and net-zero goals…ROX Motor, a global luxury new energy vehicle brand, has announced a strategic partnership with W Motors, the UAE’s leading high-performance vehicle manufacturer, to bring production and assembly of its vehicles into the United Arab Emirates. The agreement, signed at Make it in the Emirates (MIITE) 2025, marks a major milestone in enhancing the regions manufacturing and supporting the UAE’s industrial and sustainability goals.As part of this collaboration, ROX Motor will begin producing its vehicles – starting with the ROX 01 – at W Motors’ new facility…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration’s trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock. Two days before that so-called “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2, a State Department official sold as much as $50,000 in stock, then bought a similar investment as prices fell. And just before Trump made another significant tariff announcement, a White House…

Kate WhannelPolitical reporterReutersDiego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was separated from Mauritius along with the rest of the Chagos Islands in 1965 and now houses a US military baseThe government has temporarily been banned from concluding talks on the Chagos Islands deal by a last-minute injunction by a High Court judge.At 02:25 BST Mr Justice Goose granted “interim relief” to two Chagossian women who had brought a case against the Foreign Office. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had been expected to attend a virtual signing ceremony with representatives of the Mauritian government on Thursday morning. The agreement would…

Before beginning her lessons for the day, Aseel Alwan heads to the kitchen to make coffee, placing a kettle on an open flame to boil water that she pours into a mug with instant coffee. Then, she makes her way to her bedroom, where she begins the daily hunt for an internet connection — a tall order at her family home in Gaza City.The 21 year old is working on her bachelor of English literature at Al-Aqsa University. She is among thousands of university students in Gaza attempting to continue their studies despite the ongoing war.Alwan and her family are among the lucky few whose homes…

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Coming up: Tomorrow the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinions. Recommended Citation: , The morning read for Wednesday, May 21, SCOTUSblog (May. 21, 2025, 9:05 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/05/the-morning-read-for-wednesday-may-21/ Source link