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EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on Apr 3, 2025 at 1:38 pm The court could rule in Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees at any time. (Aashish Kiphayet via Shutterstock) A group of nonprofits challenging the layoffs of thousands of probationary employees urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that would require the federal government to reinstate more than 16,000 employees who were fired by six agencies in February. “It strains credulity that returning employees to work would cause irreparable harm to the Government,” the group…

Home Daily News Trump administration invokes state secrets… Immigration Law Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege for deportation flights, disputes Nazi analogy By Debra Cassens Weiss March 25, 2025, 11:02 am CDT A prison guard transfers deportees from the United States, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16. (Photo by the El Salvador presidential press office via the Associated Press) Government lawyers are arguing that the state secrets privilege protects the Trump administration from divulging details about deportation flights to El Salvador in Central America, and that the Venezuelans…

The ultimate day out…Dubai World Cup is the world’s most spectacular race day, and it is back once again taking place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the iconic Meydan in Dubai.It is a highlight in the sporting and social calendar, where sporting excellence, fashion, entertainment, and fine dining mingle together, making it one of the UAE’s unmissable annual social events.The best horses, trainers, and jockeys from around the world descend to Dubai for a packed day of thrilling action. There’s a whopping 30.5 million dollars up for grabs across nine races.We all can’t wait to see who will lift…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The last time Sam met with his therapist, Scott Owen, the session was nothing more than an hour of Owen sexually abusing him, he told a Provo, Utah, courtroom this week. Sam remembers sitting in his car afterward, screaming as loud as he could. “I could feel him all over my skin,” he said. “I could not believe this was happening.” It was October 2017, and Sam had…

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing is in Thailand for a regional summit as his country reels from an earthquake that killed thousands and left cities in ruins.The earthquake in central Myanmar last Friday killed 3,085 people and injured 4,715, the junta has said. Hundreds more are missing and the toll is expected to rise.Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Bangkok on Thursday, according to AFP, on the eve of a summit that will gather leaders of the seven countries that border the Bay of Bengal.His attendance, which was earlier confirmed by a spokesman for the Myanmar army, will be unusual…

Scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine is linked to reduced dementia risk.Using the health records of more than 280,000 older adults in Wales, researchers found those who received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, build on other recent studies that have demonstrated associations between herpes virus infections and an increased risk of developing dementia.Lead author Pascal Geldsetzer, from Stanford University, said the protective effects of the vaccine appeared to be…

ARGUMENT ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Apr 2, 2025 at 6:41 pm Protesters gather outside the court on Wednesday morning. (Amy Howe) The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolina’s governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid. During more than 90 minutes of oral arguments, the justices struggled to determine whether the Medicaid law on which Planned Parenthood relies must use specific words to signal that Congress intended to create a private right to enforce it –…

Home Daily News Climate change case that ‘ignited a movement’… U.S. Supreme Court Climate change case that ‘ignited a movement’ ends with Supreme Court’s cert denial By Debra Cassens Weiss March 25, 2025, 2:01 pm CDT Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana of Oregon, the lead plaintiff in Juliana v. United States, speaks at a rally in June 2019. (Photo by Steve Dipaola/The Associated Press) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a climate change lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 youths who contended that the government is a trustee of the environment and has a duty to preserve it.…

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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. Three federal lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to stop any initiatives involving cryptocurrency and the blockchain, saying the scantly regulated technologies should be kept far away from the agency’s work overseeing the nation’s housing sector. In a letter to HUD Secretary Scott Turner on Wednesday, Reps. Maxine Waters, Stephen Lynch and Emanuel Cleaver sharply criticized the agency for considering such experiments, given cryptocurrency’s volatility and vulnerability to fraud. The Democratic representatives,…