Michael Gove has called for a tax cut before the next general election – putting him at odds with the chancellor on the first day of Conservative Party conference. Jeremy Hunt told The Times newspaper on Saturday the government was “not in a position to talk about tax cuts at all”, and needed to focus …
Now that race-based affirmative action in college admissions has been overturned in a landmark Supreme Court decision, colleges and universities are scrambling to diversify their student bodies without running afoul of civil rights law. Several top-ranked schools are rolling out a slew of new essay prompts that fish for demographic information with leading questions — …
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SYMBOLIC BLOW While the details of how the ruling will be carried out remain unknown, and though James must still go to trial for the US$250 million, the ruling is a symbolic blow to “the story that Donald Trump tells about himself as a businessman”, says Will Thomas, a University of Michigan assistant professor of …
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Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. The 72-story office building in the heart of the financial district. The Trump International Hotel overlooking Central Park. These are Donald J. Trump’s flagship New York properties, embodiments of the rise of a developer who parlayed real estate riches into reality television fame, and ultimately, the White House. Now, Mr. …
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Nearly every aspect of Donald J. Trump’s life and career has been under scrutiny from the justice system over the past several years, leaving him under criminal indictment in four jurisdictions and being held to account in a civil case for what a jury found to be sexual abuse that he committed decades ago. But …
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The Grants Pass ruling prevented city officials from enforcing ordinances against sleeping on public property, expanding a prior ruling — Martin v. Boise — that barred cities from criminalizing people who were sleeping in public spaces if there weren’t sufficient beds to accommodate them. The Ninth Circuit recently upheld that ruling. Those legal precedents have …
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler is easily one of the most hated personalities within the crypto community. His recent statement expressing his reluctance to let the courts influence his view about crypto has not helped improve that opinion. A new video showing what seemed like an ambush interview of Gensler, was …
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The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police’s Crime Branch on Monday conducted a search at the office of ‘Sambad’, an Odia daily newspaper owned by BJD MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, over an allegation of loan fraud. The development came days after BJD, the governing party in Odisha, removed the editor-politician from the post of …
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Nine California lawmakers asked the state’s attorney general in a letter on Monday to seek a court opinion on whether former President Donald J. Trump should be excluded from Republican primary ballots under the 14th Amendment. The letter is part of an escalating effort across multiple states to establish whether Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn …
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A judge has admitted to using ChatGPT to write a court ruling, citing it as “jolly useful”. Lord Justice Birss said he used ChatGPT to summarise an area of law he was knowledgeable on but stressed it should not be relied on when writing anything you do not already know plenty about. He used the …
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SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday narrowed an order that broadly suspended the right to carry firearms in and around Albuquerque to apply only to public parks and playgrounds where children and their families gather. The governor’s announcement came days after a federal judge blocked part of the order …
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A court panel has upheld a ruling that found a United States teacher took her own life over a decade ago. Ellen Greenberg was found with 20 stab wounds in 2011. Her family have fought for over a decade to overturn the ruling, claiming the 27-year-old was instead murdered. And while a court has now …
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