LOS ANGELES — A San José State professor has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the university after her termination over pro-Palestinian protests two years ago was recently overturned.

Sang Hae Kil, a justice studies professor, accused the university and California State University, the system that oversees 23 colleges across the state, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court backed state laws banning transgender girls from participating in scholastic girls’ sports in a decision issued Tuesday, upholding a legal argument used by the Trump administration in seeking to ban transgender athletes nationwide.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, in a majority opinion that turned aside challenges ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Watergate-era limits on how much political parties can spend in a coordinated campaign with their candidates.

By a 6-3 vote, the court said the restrictions on parties and their campaign ads violate the First Amendment.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said the court was restoring broad free ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court overturned a key campaign finance restriction in a decision issued Tuesday, clearing the way for political parties nationwide to spend unlimited amounts on behalf of candidates in federal elections.

The 6-3 decision came in a challenge from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as well as Vice President ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City’s next budget revealed Tuesday includes funding to open $1,000 college savings accounts for every public school kindergartner, making it the largest program of its kind in the United States.

The $53 million investment — a tenfold expansion of an existing program called NYC KIDS RISE — aims to help families build...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wiped out President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship, an effort to restrict American citizenship without Congress that cut against more than a century of legal precedent.

The 6-3 decision, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. writing a five-justice majority...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court – with its six conservative justices, three of whom were nominated by President Donald Trump – has recently reversed landmark decisions that have long guided American government and society. Over the last few years, the court has stripped federal protection of abortion rights, affirmative action, gun control, and a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland will receive more than 2 million eggs for food banks and community organizations as part of a multistate settlement accusing three major egg producers of illegally coordinating to drive up prices, Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced Tuesday.

The settlement, reached by Brown and a bipartisan coalition of state ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Constitution’s promise that all those born here are citizens of the United States, regardless of the status of their parents.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices rejected President Donald Trump’s plan to revise the Constitution by executive order and to end citizenship at birth for ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to give just a small chance a system in the Atlantic off the southeastern U.S. coast could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, limited showers and thunderstorms had moved farther offshore of the southeast ...Read more

BEIRUT — Lebanon and Israel last week forged a framework agreement aimed at ending hostilities between the long-time enemies. But the U.S.-engineered deal hinges on what has been a non-starter for the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah: Disarmament.

The 14-point trilateral agreement, hailed by U.S. officials as a landmark step toward a...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Several teens overdosed at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall last year after they drank from a water jug spiked with a "dangerous narcotic" that was passed around in a classroom, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed this month.

The April 2025 incident at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey sent three teenagers to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul is continuing to bankroll New York City’s major childcare expansion, with $19 million in capital grants awarded on Tuesday to eight “shovel-ready” childcare projects.

It’s part of a total of $106 million for 37 childcare projects statewide, according to data shared with the Daily News ahead of its public ...Read more

The U.K.’s defense spending plan leaves several hard choices for Andy Burnham to make on the future security of the nation.

The government rejected calls to boost defense spending to 3% of economic output in 2030 — the year NATO has said the block must be prepared for a Russian attack — instead promising to spend 2.7% by the end of the ...Read more

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” officers obtain a warrant that permits a multistep, give-and-take information sharing process between officers and tech employees that winnows...Read more

In 1526, books appeared in England that no one had seen before: printed New Testaments in the English language. The public snapped them up. For the first time, people read now-common phrases such as “the powers that be” and “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” But religious authorities condemned the English Bible and burned ...Read more

In the 1520s and 1530s, a man named Esteban de Dorantes, known as Estevanico, walked across the deserts of what is now Texas, New Mexico and Arizona – decades before the English founded Jamestown in 1607 and a full century before the Pilgrims reached Plymouth in 1620.

Born in Azemmour, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, he had been ...Read more

To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common sense to first get a detailed picture of who they are and where they are. My research shows what can be gained – by policymakers and the broader public – from detailed environmental data and highlights what is lost when it’s not collected.

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