Europe’s climate monitor says summer 2024 was the warmest ever measured globally. An El Niño pattern and human-caused climate change have been a double whammy.
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What does The New York Times have against El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, except a desire to suck up to its sources in the State Department and Pentagon?
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A trio of organizations filed a civil suit, arguing the Netherlands is violating international law by supplying parts for aircraft the Israeli government is using to bomb Gaza.
Capitol Police officer Michael Riley had messaged a Virginia man on Facebook, urging him to delete videos from Jan. 6 and indicating he agreed with the man's politics.
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The Massachusetts high court waded into a debate involving hurt feelings, suspicions of infidelity and a $70,000 Tiffany stunner.
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Wedged between Western and Eastern Europe and long in conflict with the Ottoman Empire, tiny Montenegro has always sat at a geopolitical crossroads. As tensions have once again ramped up in Europe, so too has the battle for influence here.
For participants like Portland resident Kai Miller, the Hood to Coast Relay brings together friends and family for a memorable if arduous experience.
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A federal court in the District of Columbia sided with two parolees who say they, and other disabled parolees, suffer systematic discrimination from the U.S. Parole Commission and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. They have shown that medical, mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities interfere with their capacity to attend appointments and participate in programs required by their parole, and that they have not been accommodated despite requesting help.
A criminal defendant did not need to be advised that he would face mandatory deportation and a permanent ban from the country if he entered an Alford plea to criminal sexual conduct with a minor, ruled the South Carolina Court of Appeals. His counsel should have explicitly advised the man of the immigration penalties, but the defendant did not show how this omission prejudiced him, as he still would have taken the plea and its lesser sentence even if he was told this.
The maker of Vyvanse successfully sought dismissal of a putative consumer protection class action, which was brought by a patient who says she was given medicine with less of the active ingredient in them than the label indicated. She received empty pills, and some were deficient in the amount of medication in them, but she could not show how this rose above to the level of a breach of warranty or deceptive practices, rather than a mere error or negligence.
A federal court in Idaho did not totally dismiss Robert F. Kennedy’s allegations that the state’s election rules, which require independent presidential candidates to name a VP before the political parties’ candidates must, violate the equal protection clause. Because the RFK campaign alleged an injury-in-fact, their claims proceed, in spite of his decision to drop out of the race for the presidency.
An appeals court in Texas says the trial court shouldn’t have awarded $1 million to a man who, after winning a 1998 judgment against a couple in another matter, argued the pair had schemed to avoid paying the judgment in violation of state law, in part by staging a “sham” divorce. The lower court shouldn’t have denied admissions from the couple just because they were filed 29 minutes late, and there are genuine factual disputes that mean the man is not entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
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GirlsDoPorn founder Michael James Pratt is now set to stand trial on Sept. 2, 2025. The judge said scheduling it one year in advance was justified due to how unusual and expansive the case is, with survivors from across the country and Canada expected to testify.
Retail sales ticked up just 0.1% in the euro area in July and by 0.2% across the full European Union, Eurostat reported Thursday.
A Ukrainian company is suing the Russian Federation in a California court under the Uniform Foreign-County Money Judgments Recognition Act for over $275 million it is owed following a Ukrainian court ruling in its favor for the "unlawful expropriation" of their industrial chemical production complex by Russia in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Prices for industrial producers ticket up slightly across the European Union in July, though remained well below levels seen in 2023.
An anti-abortion advocate says a proposed ordinance to establish "buffer zones" around certain medical facilities in San Diego prevents him from providing sidewalk counseling and prayer to people entering the facility, in violation of his free speech rights.
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