3 h. ago Prosecutors ask US Supreme Court to restore conviction in Etan Patz missing child case

Prosecutors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz

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5 h. ago Kentucky Supreme Court denies London City Council appeal to remove Mayor Weddle

Kentucky Supreme Court denies London City Council appeal to remove Mayor Weddle  WTVQ

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5 h. ago Florida Supreme Court upholds death sentences by nonunanimous juries

Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death

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15 h. ago Top EU court rules Polish Constitutional Tribunal is not independent

The EU's top court has ruled that Poland's Constitutional Tribunal is not "independent and impartial" due to politicized appointments by the previous conservative government

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28 h. ago Court blocks Michigan ban on conversion therapy on free speech grounds

A federal appeals court has blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors

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30 h. ago US government sues US Virgin Islands and accuses officials of violating the Second Amendment

A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands

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34 h. ago Chelsea told to ‘put up or shut up’ over potential Earls Court move

Club yet to make a decision on how to build bigger ground£10bn housing and retail bid granted planning permissionChelsea have been urged to “put up or shut up” and decide whether they want to move to Earl’s Court after alternative plans for the site were approved by Kensington and Chelsea council.The club are yet to make a decision on how to build a bigger ground and another stumbling block is in their path after the Earls Court Development Company’s proposals for a £10bn housing and retail development were granted planning permission at a council meeting on Tuesday. The ECDC, whose master plan does not include room for a football stadium, secured unanimous approval from Hammersmith and Fulham council last month. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Rogano: The complex legal wrangle between Glasgow's oldest restaurant and Spain's richest man

Rogano on Glasgow’s Royal Exchange Square has been closed since March 2020, but moves are underway to settle the fate of the city’s oldest restaurant.

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35 h. ago Trump continues to dangle $2,000 checks for Americans as tariff rebates

Future of $2,000 tariff rebate checks likely lies with the Supreme Court which will soon decide if the president can impose sweeping tariffs

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37 h. ago Appeal to European Court being considered after ruling over Troubles disclosures

It comes after Government won an appeal which prevents a coroner in Northern Ireland disclosing certain sensitive material at a Troubles inquest.

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39 h. ago Government to ‘consider’ ruling in response to calls to name Stakeknife

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the ruling on Wednesday had ‘wide-ranging implications’

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41 h. ago Government wins Supreme Court challenge over disclosure of sensitive material

The ruling could have implications for a number of Troubles deaths involving state secrecy.

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3 d. ago Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant evade federal authorities

Trial is underway in Wisconsin for a judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal authorities

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3 d. ago Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons

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3 d. ago The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s penJudicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually unkind to the US supreme court decision that upheld the law banning TikTok, the short-form video platform. The court issued its ruling less than a year ago, but it is already obvious that the deference the court gave to the government’s national security arguments was spectacularly misplaced. The principal effect of the court’s ruling has been to give our own government enormous power over the policies of a speech platform used by tens of millions of Americans every day – a result that is an affront to the first amendment and a national security risk in its own right.Congress passed the TikTok ban in 2023 citing concerns that the Chinese government might be able to access information about TikTok’s American users or co...

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4 d. ago Iraq's election result ratified by Supreme Federal Court as premiership remains up for grabs

Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ratified the final results of last month’s parliamentary elections

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4 d. ago Why celebrities are loving crypto again in Trump’s second term

From athletes such as Tristan Thompson to artists such as Iggy Azalea, celebrities have returned to hawking cryptoFollowing the numbers suggests Tristan Thompson is nearing the end of his basketball career. While the 6ft 9in center once regularly played more than 80 games in a regular season, he’s hit new career lows, appearing just 40 times on court during the 2024-2025 season. Following the money, however, suggests Thompson is pivoting into a new career. He’s rebranded as a crypto investor, consultant and brand ambassador, bringing his relative cultural cache to the blockchain. Now the host of his own podcast, Courtside Crypto, he has made frequent appearances with other crypto celebrities, such as at the Nasdaq in September, when he celebrated the IPO of an explicitly nationalist Bitcoin mining operation alongside Eric Trump; Thompson has also developed a crypto startup slated to launch in 2026.In 2025, crypto is back in style in Washington and among a growing set in Hollywood, w...

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5 d. ago Protesters demonstate at Girl Guides headquarters against group's new ban on transgender girls

On December 2, Girlguiding announced it would no longer accept trans members after the Supreme Court ruled in April that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

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5 d. ago Euan McColm: I could say Sandie Peggie tribunal judge Sandy Kemp was an idiot

Tribunal ruling contained bizarre and downright wrong assertions and seemed to have misinterpreted Supreme Court’s decision on gender ID

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6 d. ago Justice Department asks appeals court to block judge's contempt inquiry in mass deportation case

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March

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