Israel’s ‘deliberate targeting’ of children part of ongoing Gaza ‘genocide’: UN probe
GENEVA (AFP) — Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what has become a key factor in an ongoing “genocide” in Gaza, United Nations investigators charged on Tuesday, in a report slammed by Israel. The U.N. Independent International...
Former Scottish leader’s ex-husband lands 5 years in prison over embezzlement scandal
MANCHESTER, England (CN) — Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of Scotland’s governing nationalist party, was sentenced Tuesday to five years and three months in prison after admitting he embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the party over more than a...
Judge dismisses Trump administration’s lawsuit against LA over ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Los Angeles over the city’s ordinance that prohibits use of municipal resources to assist with immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin, in a ruling...
Attorney presses difference between farms, physical location in Apple Hill case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After almost a decade of litigation, the federal trial of trademark dispute at the core of a seasonal California tourist attraction began Monday. Apple Hill Growers, a collective of farms, sued El Dorado Orchards and others over the use of the...
States sue California over plastic recycling mandate
(CN) — Over a dozen states and a wholesaler association sued the administrator of California’s agency responsible for recycling Monday, seeking to stop a state policy that would curb access to California markets if producers don’t align with its single-use plastic...
Judge orders removal of fence around Oregon federal building
EUGENE, Ore. (CN) — A federal judge sided Monday with the free speech activists who challenged the government’s erection of a $270,000 fence around a federal building in an Oregon college town, blocking off a plaza traditionally used as a public meeting ground. “The...
Environmentalists sue feds for records behind executive order boosting herbicide production
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration on Monday over the Department of Agriculture’s refusal to provide documents that would reveal any advocates for an executive order to accelerate the production of glyphosate, a popular...
Wall Street trader jailed on sex abuse charges fights rejection of $75 million bail package
MANHATTAN (CN) — Howard Rubin, a retired financier who’s accused of brutalizing and raping women in a BDSM dungeon in his Manhattan penthouse, asked an appeals court on Monday to grant him bail after a federal judge rejected his multimillion-dollar bail...
Federal judge blocks Trump’s national citizenship database
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s attempt at creating a searchable national citizenship database as a clear threat to voting rights. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan sided with the League of Women Voters to...