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Home Daily News Emergency docket orders should ‘inform’ courts… U.S. Supreme Court Emergency docket orders should ‘inform’ courts in similar cases, SCOTUS says By Debra Cassens Weiss July 25, 2025, 9:26 am CDT The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove, for now, three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, pointing to its prior emergency docket order allowing the firing of board members of two other independent agencies. (Photo by Rob Crandall/Shutterstock) The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove, for now, three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety…

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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. Veterans hospitals are struggling to replace hundreds of doctors and nurses who have left the health care system this year as the Trump administration pursues its pledge to simultaneously slash Department of Veterans Affairs staff and improve care. Many job applicants are turning down offers, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency, according to internal documents examined by ProPublica. The records show nearly 4 in 10 of the roughly…

A South African court has ruled that Zambia’s government can repatriate the body of former President Edgar Lungu and give him a state funeral, despite his family’s opposition.Lungu’s family had wanted to bury him privately in South Africa, where he died in June. They were left visibly distraught by the Pretoria high court’s decision.The Zambian state welcomed the ruling, saying that while it mourned with the former statesman’s family, Lungu “belongs to the nation”.The dispute follows a long-standing feud between Lungu and his successor, President Hakainde Hichilema, with Lungu’s family saying he had indicated that Hichilema should not attend his…

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Recommended Citation: Zachary Shemtob, The morning read for Thursday, August 7, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 7, 2025, 9:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/the-morning-read-for-thursday-august-7/ Source link

So far, 2025 has been a year of constant ups and downs, marked by increasing unpredictability. Financial markets have responded accordingly, fluctuating wildly and dramatically impacting investments and 401(k) accounts. Adding to the tumult, rising costs and the threat of new tariffs are stretching household budgets thinner than ever. At the same time, the much-hyped promise of artificial intelligence, paired with sustained instability, has triggered layoffs across industries. Additionally, this continued financial uncertainty has resulted in a 16% increase in individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings, according to a May 6 story from the MortgagePoint. This surge means that bankruptcy attorneys…

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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. David Barnea, the director of the Mossad for some of the most remarkable successes in its storied history, never intended to be an intelligence officer. As a young man, he served as a team leader in the Israeli military’s most elite commando unit and then came to New York to study for a career in business. After earning a master’s degree in finance at Pace University, he took jobs at an Israeli investment bank and then a brokerage…

The US has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being “one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world”.US President Donald Trump is a long-time critic of Maduro, who returned to office in January following an election marred by vote-rigging allegations. The results were widely rejected by the international community.Attorney General Pam Bondi said the US would double its already announced reward of $25m (£18.6m), and said Maduro was directly linked to drug smuggling operations.Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said the new reward was “pathetic” and labelled…

Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White, which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Will America’s central bank stay independent from presidential control? For months, the Trump administration has threatened to fire the chair of the Federal Reserve Board, Jerome Powell, in violation of a statute that protects his and his colleagues’ tenures. It would be a profound mistake – “the road to the hyper-politicized monetary policy you’d expect in Argentina,” the Wall…