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AFPThis Paris regional train was parked on the tracks in the suburb of Saint-Denis as services ground to a haltAn unexploded World War Two bomb found near Gare du Nord station in Paris was defused on Friday after trains to and from the station were cancelled. French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said all Eurostar trains to and from the city had been cancelled until the end of the day, with normal services expected to resume on Saturday. He said local rail traffic would return to normal from 17:00 GMT after French police evacuated 200 people from homes in Saint-Denis and…
Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country’s new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s western coastal region have killed more than 70 people and left an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday.The clashes, which erupted on Thursday and appear co-ordinated across the coastal region, were a major escalation and a challenge to the new government in Damascus, where the former insurgents now in power have pledged to unite Syria after 14 years of brutal civil war. Overnight, Damascus sent reinforcements to the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartus, as well as nearby…
RELIST WATCH By John Elwood on Mar 6, 2025 at 11:26 pm 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. Once again this week, the Supreme Court has been busy sifting through the relists. The court granted review of one of last week’s new relists raising a double jeopardy question about a federal sentencing enhancement for using a firearm during a violent crime. (Grants are now filling in the 2025-26 term, which will start in October.) And the court denied review of a…
Home Daily News This law firm bills as much as $3,000 per… Law Firms This law firm bills as much as $3,000 per hour By Debra Cassens Weiss February 26, 2025, 1:46 pm CST Some partners at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan bill as much as $3,000 per hour, according to court filings cited by Reuters. (Photo from Shutterstock) Some partners at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan bill as much as $3,000 per hour, according to court filings cited by Reuters. The law firm bills between $1,860 and $3,000 per hour for partners, between $1,775 and $2,725 per hour for…
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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. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in…
Mark SavageMusic CorrespondentInterscopeNo-one wants to be alone, and no job is more isolating than being a pop star. Just ask Lady Gaga.Her rise to fame in 2009-10 was unlike anything we’d seen before. One of the first pop stars to harness the power of the internet, she seemed to exist in a permanent onslaught of TMZ photos and gossip blogs.Their appetite was voracious. She wore through so many looks and sounds in the space of three years that one critic wrote she was “speed-running Madonna’s entire career”.And as her fame grew, the headlines became more unhinged. She staged a satanic…
One trade war down, two to go — maybe more. U.S. President Donald Trump has dialled back his tariffs against Canada after rattling the economy from the markets, to factories, to the borders. But that was this week’s battle.There’s another one next week when his steel and aluminum tariffs take effect; then another three weeks after that, when Trump is threatening other tariffs on a multitude of countries.Private and public comments in recent days from Trump’s team make a mockery of the idea that stopping fentanyl was the principal reason for his tariff policy. The biggest risk for Canada is now coming into focus.…
EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on Mar 6, 2025 at 5:18 pm The court’s order came after the D.C. Circuit effectively removed Dellinger on Wednesday. (Thomas Hawk via Flickr) The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a request by the Trump administration to lift an order by a federal judge that had instructed it to temporarily reinstate Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel. In a one-sentence order on Thursday afternoon, the justices threw out the plea as moot – that is, no longer a live controversy. The order came one day after a federal appeals court…
U.S. Supreme Court The first case involving the second Trump administration has come to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although the court has not gotten involved at this stage in the litigation, the case involves an issue of enormous significance: May a president fire anyone who works in the executive branch of government even when there is a statute limiting firing? More generally, will the court continue to allow the existence of “independent regulatory agencies” with some degree of independence from a president? The facts of this case The case, Bessent v. Dellinger, involves Hampton Dellinger, who is the head of…