NY social media hate speech law passes test at top state court
MANHATTAN (CN) — Requiring social media networks to tamp down on hate speech doesn’t violate free speech rights, New York’s high court said in a Tuesday split ruling. The New York Court of Appeals answered questions the Second Circuit asked as part of...
As Native American boarding schools project ends, survivors describe feeling honored and restored
(AP) — Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They’ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that they’ve kept inside for decades, finally able to begin recovering from childhood trauma. An oral...
Democratic socialists surge in mayoral races across the country as anti-Trump fervor rises
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Janeese Lewis George paves a path to the mayor’s office in Washington, D.C., she’s told voters they could have it all. Her unapologetically expansive, left-wing agenda includes subsidized or even free childcare, increased...
How Brexit broke British politics
LONDON (AP) — Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52%-48% to leave the EU after more than four...
Texas doctor charged in $89M fraud case as administration pushes healthcare crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Texas doctor in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme, accusing him of billing insurers for medically unnecessary cardiovascular screening tests for college student-athletes and then rubber-stamping the results...
Ukraine says it hit a railway bridge to Crimea, seeking to isolate the Russian-held peninsula
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said Tuesday its forces struck a railway bridge, a power plant and other key infrastructure targets in Crimea as Kyiv’s military seeks to isolate the vital Russian-held peninsula in the latest stage of the 4-year-old war. The...
‘Reckless and dangerous’: EU faces outcry as it hosts Taliban officials for deportation talks
(CN) — Amid efforts to ramp up deportations, European officials hosted a delegation of Afghan Taliban officials in Brussels for the first time Tuesday with an eye toward deporting Afghans who’ve committed crimes or who pose a security threat, a policy already...
Texas ICE detention protest shooter sentenced to 100 years, others sentenced to decades
FORT WORTH, Texas (CN) — Gunman Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison Tuesday for wounding a police officer at an ICE detention center protest in Texas, alongside seven other defendants who each received decadeslong sentences. The eight defendants...
Man arrested in Hungary for collecting human body parts taken from cemeteries, police say
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police in Hungary have arrested a 30-year-old man who investigators say collected human body parts that he’d gathered from abandoned cemeteries and from his workplace at a hospital. Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation...