The US Supreme Court will today hear a controversial matter about sex. Specifically, what the term means in federal civil rights law designed to protect against employment discrimination.
US president Donald Trump has had a steadfast ally in Fox News. As he’s railed against the “fake news media” and accused journalists of being the “enemy of the people,” the president has maintained a cozy relationship with the conservative commentators at Fox. But even some of his most vocal supporters admit that Trump’s Ukraine dealings, which sparked an impeachment inquiry, are highly problematic.
Elizabeth Warren is winning the season. Although the 2020 US presidential candidate has been campaigning relentlessly and making steady gains in the polls over the past few months, her current success may be thanks in part to the troubles of others, not just her tireless efforts to win over American voters.
Hong Kong’s summer of discontent, which began with protests over a Chinese extradition bill, has turned into a violent autumn.
If you walk into the US Supreme Court building today, you will see an envelope in a glass case on which is scribbled in cursive, “In Re Lady Lawyers.”
Government corruption was a major concern when the framers of the US Constitution met in Philadelphia in 1787 for the constitutional convention.
The US Supreme Court will kick off a new term on Oct. 7 with arguments about a classic topic, the knowledge of good and evil.
The US Supreme Court today announced that it will hear a Louisiana abortion-rights case. Now, as the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, the court will hear decide its first case on the controversial topic since 2016.
If there’s one case US Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts doesn’t want to preside over, it’s the impeachment trial of president Donald Trump in the Senate.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo fired off an angry letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee today.
The impeachment inquiry into US president Donald Trump is based on a whistleblower’s report. It details Trump’s efforts to influence Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, his potential political rival in the 2020 presidential election.
Ukraine president Vlodymyr Zelensky probably always dreamed of being an internationally known household name, given his first chosen profession was acting.
The office of the director of national intelligence provided lawmakers on Wednesday with an unclassified version of the complaint written by a whistleblower that is now at the center of a presidential impeachment inquiry. This morning, that complaint was released to the public.
Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch’s new book, A Republic, If You Can Keep It, is a true believer’s tale of faith in the US constitution, written for the politically jaded. In it, Gorsuch is a high priest of the law, aiming to convert disillusioned citizens into coreligionists.
Democratic members of the Ukrainian Congressional Caucus held a press conference at the Capitol today to discuss allegations that US president Donald Trump delayed the release of funds appropriated to Ukraine in an effort to convince its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to do his bidding.
A record of the call that prompted Democrats yesterday to announce an investigation to impeach US president Donald Trump has been released. The exchange between Trump and Ukraine’s president Vlodymyr Zelensky, in which the American leader asks the Ukrainian leader to investigate political rival Joe Biden, prompted speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to announce that the House will initiate an investigation with an eye to impeachment.
It’s finally happening. Democratic lawmakers say they have reached their breaking point. And so the US House of Representatives will formally look into the impeachment of Donald Trump.
People don’t trust politicians, perhaps because they joust for jobs in popularity contests, promising us the world. Still, politicians—who often have their words written for them—strive to sound authentic and unscripted.
The 10 qualifying Democratic presidential candidates met on a stage in Houston for the third round of primary debates Thursday night. Two of the leading contenders, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and the former vice president Joe Biden, have a history.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is an aspiring politician. But his angle in the 2020 campaign is that he’s an outsider, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who sees the future and shares the general population’s mistrust of professional lawmakers.
US president Donald Trump, born into a wealthy real estate development family, probably hasn’t waited in line much in his lifetime. And he certainly doesn’t do it now. So it’s of little surprise that more than any other president before him, Trump jumps to the front of the judicial queue, seeking emergency relief with the Supreme Court whenever he feels thwarted by district or circuit court judges.
In 1961, the tuna processor StarKist created a cartoon character for its ads, a hip, beret-wearing, bespectacled fish who thought he was a perfect fit for the company’s cans but was consistently rejected with a note lowered into the ocean on a hook saying, “Sorry Charlie!” Now it’s StarKist that’s on the hook.
The maker of Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma, is reportedly near reaching a global settlement agreement with plaintiffs, cities, counties, and states that sued the company for its role in pushing and promoting the opioid epidemic and creating a national addiction crisis. The agreement, if finalized, involves the company declaring bankruptcy, and it would cost Purdue and its owners, the Sackler family, $10 billion to $12 billion.
You already know that life is messy. Try though we might to impose order, there is no app or hack or approach to your to-do list that will just make everything go smoothly. Still, you can change how you deal with the inevitable imperfection—and this perceptual shift could transform your existence, turning you from a failing control freak into someone who goes with the flow.
