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For more than a century, a smelting plant in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, spewed lead-laced smoke across the city. As the toxic metal drifted toward the ground, approximately 400 million pounds of it — nearly the weight of Chicago’s Willis Tower — settled into the soil and bodies of countless Omahans. Since 1999, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city of Omaha have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to clean it up. Flatwater Free Press is partnering with ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, to find out how effective they’ve been and see what questions are still out there about…
US actor and wrestler John Cena fought the final fight of his 16 match retirement tournament in Washington on Saturday night, bringing to a close an illustrious 24-year career that saw him become one of wrestling’s biggest and most recognisable stars.The 48-year-old announced his retirement back in July 2024, telling fans at the time that his “body hurts” and is “screaming to close the chapter”.It has been confirmed however that he will remain a part of the WWE family, after he signed a five-year deal to be an ambassador.Fans gave Cena a standing ovation at the end of Saturday’s match…
Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.A shooting in the engineering building at Brown University on Saturday has left at least two people dead and eight critically injured, officials in Providence, R.I., said, as authorities continued to search for a suspect.Officers were hunting through buildings on the Ivy League campus more than three hours after the shooting on the second day of final exams.The suspect was a male who was dressed in black and last…
We are excited to announce that we’ve launched an Interim Docket Blog, which will feature analysis of interim docket developments from Jack Goldsmith, William Baude, and Daniel Epps. Goldsmith is a professor at Harvard Law School and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes about executive power issues at Executive Functions. Baude is a professor and faculty director of the Constitutional Law Institute at the University of Chicago Law School. Epps is a professor at Washington University School of Law and a nationally recognized expert on the Supreme Court. Baude and Epps co-host the Divided Argument podcast. SCOTUS…
We have no objections: It’s time to begin this year’s holiday shopping! If you’re on the hunt for the best present for the legal professional in your life, the ABA Journal is here to help. Check out our 2025 Gifts for Lawyers Guide. This year’s guide features gifts for legal pros—or yourself—who enjoy tech gadgets, writing and organizing tools, craft hobbies and more. It’s time to spread some holiday cheer! And if nothing on this year’s list catches your eye, check out our gift guides from 2024, 2023 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015. Attribution: Photo gallery…
See Tetris like never before as Red Bull turns the Dubai Frame into one huge screenUnless you’ve been living under a block, chances are you’ve mashed buttons playing Tetris at some point. But this beloved classic isn’t just a memory. Red Bull is bringing it back in a way you’ve never seen before, with drones lighting up the sky in a live, playable event.Red Bull Tetris is the world’s first live playable Tetris event – and it’s happening at the iconic Dubai Frame. And when we say “at” the Frame, we don’t mean inside the venue… we mean literally within…
Reporting Highlights The “Playbook”: Trump’s DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded more than $1 billion in fines and pressed for changes that had nothing to do with antisemitism. An Internal Memo: DOJ career lawyers warned that the case against UCLA was shaky. Many said they were glad to be leaving before they might be asked to sign the complaint. Fettered Resistance: UC’s dependence on federal funds limited its ability to push back aggressively, insiders said. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken…
Sarah Rainsford,VilniusandDearbail JordanWatch: BBC captures celebrations as Belarus frees political prisonersBelarus has freed 123 prisoners, including prominent opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova, after the US agreed to lift sanctions on the country.Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski is also among those who have been released following talks in Minsk with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Belarus, John Coale.The US has agreed to lift sanctions on potash, a key ingredient in fertiliser and an important export for Belarus, which is a close ally of Russia. Coale said: “As relations between the two countries normalise, more and more sanctions will be…
Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Three U.S. military personnel — two army soldiers and a civilian interpreter — were killed on Saturday after an attacker targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces, the U.S. military said.Three other U.S. soldiers were wounded, the military’s Central Command said.In a statement, Central Command said the attack by a lone gunman occurred “as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement” in the central Syrian town of…
I am pleased to introduce SCOTUSblog readers to the Interim Docket Blog, where Will Baude, Dan Epps, I, and surely others, will comment on Supreme Court interim orders and related matters. An interim order is a non-final judicial decision that determines which party’s position controls in the interim between the filing of a lawsuit and its final resolution. That sounds boring and technical – and it is. But interim orders are where much of the action has been at the Supreme Court this year and for the last decade. Consider executive power. The court has a few important presidential powers…