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Supreme Court flare-ups grab headlines as justices feel the heat

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Tensions on the Supreme Court have flared this term as justices have clashed with each other and with lawyers at oral arguments amid a wave of Trump-era emergency appeals.  These exchanges at any other forum would hardly even raise an eyebrow. But at the Supreme Court, where decorum and respect are bedrock principles and underpin … Read more

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at University of Washington occupation

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Group demands university cut ties with Boeing over company’s military contracts with Israel More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Monday night at the University of Washington in Seattle after they occupied an engineering building and set dumpsters on fire. The protest group, called Super UW, occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to demand … Read more

Blue state Republican calls on county sheriffs to defy sanctuary law, Dem governor rumored for 2028 run

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EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., is calling on sheriffs in her state to defy Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state’s sanctuary laws and instead uphold federal immigration law. Miller said the state’s sanctuary policies have transformed the Land of Lincoln into a “cesspool of crime and drugs.” She is calling on sheriffs in … Read more

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

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For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began In 2021, JD Vance, then a candidate for Ohio senate, gave a provocative keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference. Vance’s lecture was an indictment of American higher education: a “hostile institution” that “gives credibility to some … Read more

Americans’ health at risk as Trump cuts EPA staff to 1980s levels, experts warn

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Advocacy groups say gutting EPA’s scientific research arm would turn it into a purely political agency Americans’ health is being put at risk after new cuts were announced by Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce staffing to 1980s levels and gut its scientific research arm, experts and advocacy groups warned. The EPA’s administrator, … Read more

Federal judge says Democrat’s North Carolina election win must stand

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Republican Jefferson Griffin had sought to throw out votes for Democrat Allison Riggs in supreme court election US politics live – latest updates North Carolina election officials must certify Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner of a state supreme court election, a federal judge ruled on Monday, a significant development in the only race that … Read more