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If affirmative action is struck down, these law schools may point to the future
By Karen Sloan (Reuters) - The experience of two highly selective public U.S. law schools offers a guide for other schools to admitting diverse students should the U.S. Supreme Court ban colleges and ...
Jun 15, 2023
E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against Donald Trump set for January 2024
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday scheduled the writer E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against former U.S. President Donald Trump for next January. U.S. Di...
Jun 15, 2023
US grand jury indicts Pentagon leak suspect Teixeira, Justice Department says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Air National guardsman accused of leaking top-secret military intelligence records online, the Justice Department said in a statement on ...
Jun 15, 2023
U.S. Senate confirms Nusrat Choudhury as first Muslim female federal judge
By Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed civil rights lawyer Nusrat Choudhury to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, making her the fi...
Jun 15, 2023
NY sex offender law applies broadly, retroactively – court
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - New York's top state court on Thursday endorsed a broad application of a law prohibiting convicted sex offenders on parole from being within 1,000 feet of schools, rejec...
Jun 15, 2023
US government agencies hit in global cyber attack -CNN
(Reuters) - Several U.S. federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, CNN reported on Thursday. The U.S. Cybersecurity and I...
Jun 15, 2023
US Justice Department to investigate PGA Tour-LIV Golf pact – WSJ
(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will review the PGA Tour's plan to merge with Saudi-backed LIV Golf to determine if it violates antitrust law, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citi...
Jun 15, 2023
U.S. West Coast port customers ‘relieved’ by tentative labor deal
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The National Retail Federation on Thursday said its members were "relieved" that U.S. West Coast seaport employers and the union representing 22,000 workers h...
Jun 15, 2023
U.S. House Republicans target deeper spending cuts, raising shutdown threat
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday adopted government spending targets for the next fiscal year below the level agreed by Speaker Kevin McCarth...
Jun 15, 2023
US Supreme Court rejects race-based challenge to Native American adoption law
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld decades-old federal requirements that give preferences to Native Americans and tribal members in the adoption or foster care placem...
Jun 15, 2023
