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Home Daily News Top military lawyers are fired; will replacements… Military Law Top military lawyers are fired; will replacements allow more aggressive battlefield approach? By Debra Cassens Weiss February 24, 2025, 10:03 am CST Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference in Poland on Feb. 14. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via the Associated Press) The secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense is looking for new judge advocates general for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, he said in an announcement Friday. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired the lawyers currently in those top JAG…

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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The Connecticut legislature is working to overhaul the state’s towing laws to protect consumers and lengthen the time before a towed vehicle can be sold. Drivers, landlords and towing industry leaders testified at the state Capitol on Monday during a public hearing before the state Transportation Committee. It is among the early actions that House Bill 7162 must undergo in the legislative process. The bill comes in response to…

BBCAn argument in the White House tore apart the US alliance with Ukraine, shook European leaders and highlighted JD Vance’s key role in forcefully expressing Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The vice-president has come out punching on the global stage – so what is it that drives his worldview?Vance’s first major foreign speech, at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February, caught many by surprise.Rather than focusing on the war raging in Ukraine, the US vice-president only briefly mentioned the bloodiest European conflict since World War Two.Instead, he used his debut on the international stage to berate close US allies about immigration…

The father of 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who went missing in the popular Dominican Republic tourist town of Punta Cana while on spring break with friends, said he has asked authorities to widen their investigation.Konanki was last seen before dawn on March 6 at a beach near the resort where she was staying, according to civil defence officials.”It’s four days, and if she was in water, she would likely have been strewn to shore,” her father Subbarayudu Konanki told WTOP-FM.”She’s not found, so we’re asking them to investigate multiple options, like kidnapping or abduction.”Members of the Dominican…

SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Mar 10, 2025 at 11:10 am The court took up two cases in a regularly scheduled list of orders on Monday. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” – that is, the effort to “convert” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. That announcement came as part of a list of orders released on Monday morning from the justices’ private conference last week. Less than a year and a half ago, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Washington…

Home Daily News DOJ files complaint against federal judge… Judiciary DOJ files complaint against federal judge for alleged hostility against government lawyer By Debra Cassens Weiss February 24, 2025, 12:27 pm CST The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a misconduct complaint for alleged “hostile and egregious misconduct” by a federal judge presiding in a challenge to an executive order that says gender dysphoria conflicts with military troop readiness. (Photo by Kevin Grant/Shutterstock) The U.S. Department of Justice filed a misconduct complaint Friday for alleged “hostile and egregious misconduct” by a federal judge presiding in a challenge to an executive…

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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. Lincare, a giant respiratory-device supplier with a long history of fraud settlements and complaints about dismal service, is facing its latest legal challenge: a lawsuit that claims its failures caused the death of a 27-year-old man with Down syndrome. The case, set to go to trial in state court in St. Louis on March 17, centers on the 2020 death of LeQuon Marquis Vernor, who suffered from severe obstructive sleep apnea and relied on a Lincare-supplied BiPAP machine…

Regan MorrisBBC NewsReporting fromBurbank, CaliforniaBBCTesla facilities across the US are facing protests and vandalism in response to the political role Elon Musk, who owns the car manufacturer, has played in the Trump administration.Most “Tesla Takedown” protests have been peaceful, but a few have been destructive with fires intentionally set at Tesla showrooms and charging stations in Colorado and Massachusetts last week. That was followed by six arrests in New York over the weekend when hundreds of protesters occupied a Tesla showroom.There has also been a spike in Cybertruck vandalism across the US, and some car owners are defacing their own…