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Reporting Highlights Power Grabs: Since 2016, GOP lawmakers have passed law after law stripping powers from Democratic governors, including control over crucial state boards. Nation’s Weakest: These power shifts have left North Carolina’s governor ranked dead last among state chief executives. Control of Elections: Republicans tried six times to seize the state board that sets rules for elections. Courts blocked the changes until 2025, when a new law was upheld. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. In November 2024, Democrat Josh Stein scored an emphatic victory in the race to become North…
ReutersRussia’s Investigative Committee said the bomb may have been planted with the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence servicesA Russian general has been killed in a car bombing in Moscow, officials have said.Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated.Sarvarov, 56, was the head of the armed forces’ operational training department, the committee added.It said one theory being investigated was that the bomb was planted with the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services. Ukraine has not commented.Sarvarov died in hospital as a result of his injuries, the committee said, adding…
The frustration and weariness crept into Sanjay Goel’s voice as he stared at the giant stack of handwritten court documents in front of him.He was on one of his countless visits from Vancouver to Mumbai, India, to fight for justice in the brutal killing of his mother and was struggling to describe the excruciating delays in criminal court proceedings.”It’s beyond my comprehension,” Goel, 61, told CBC News.”Files have disappeared. Files have been found months later.” His mother, Dr. Asha Goel, a Canadian citizen, was visiting family in Mumbai when she was badly beaten and killed in 2003 in an attack allegedly…
Yesterday, Franklin the Turtle made an appearance on Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy blog. Here’s why. SCOTUS Quick Hits The court could issue decisions in the interim docket cases on President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy the National Guard to Illinois and a dispute between the Trump administration and immigration judges at any time. Morning Reads Bessent says Supreme Court tariff ruling, Fed chair pick expected in January (Amanda Macias, Fox Business) — In a Tuesday interview with Fox Business, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects the Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs to come in January. He noted that the administration has “plenty of…
Home Daily News University of New Hampshire law students… Law Schools University of New Hampshire law students slam hybrid JD program as dean steps down By Julianne Hill December 9, 2025, 12:30 pm CST The front entrance of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, New Hampshire, in October 2021. (Photo by Ken_Gallager, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) As the dean of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law steps down Dec. 31, students and faculty are expressing concerns over the hybrid JD program that she helped launch in 2019. According…
“I very much enjoyed a multifaceted discussion with Elon Musk on space, technology and humanity. Excited to see what the future holds”Dubai’s future-forward ambitions were firmly in focus this weekend as HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the UAE met with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to discuss innovation, collaboration and the power of technology.Welcoming Elon Musk – the CEO of X, SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink to his majlis in Nad Al Sheba, Sheikh Hamdan took to Instagram to share a series of friendly photos of…
In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.” The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day. They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton. And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations for class assignments and shook a school bus as Black students were exiting to try to make them tumble off.…
Tiffanie TurnbullBondi BeachGetty ImagesThere’s been an outpouring of support from the community – but tension remainsAs helicopters circled overhead, sirens descended on her suburb, and people ran screaming down her street on 14 December, Mary felt a grim sense of deja vu.”That was when I knew there was something seriously wrong – again,” she says, her eyes brimming with tears.Mary – who did not want to give her real name – was at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre last April when six people were stabbed to death by a man in psychosis, a tragedy still fresh in the minds…
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is back in the headlines after European Union naval forces seized an Iranian fishing vessel last month that Somali pirates used to hijack a Malta-flagged tanker carrying gasoline from India to South Africa. It followed several earlier hijack attempts by armed Somali pirates, and while it’s a far cry from the peak of Somalia’s piracy crisis 15 years ago, when it was seeing more than 200 such attacks a year, some experts in maritime security say it signals a resurgence of profit-driven piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the western Indian Ocean.”With international naval…