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Lawsuit: Louisiana doing too little to protect voting rights
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Voting rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Louisiana's governor and chief elections officer, saying the state is doing too little to protect ballot access in November and should widen mail-in voting options amid the coronavirus outbreak. The lawsuit was filed in...
Virginia gov faces new hurdle in bid to remove Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge dismissed a legal challenge Monday that had been blocking Virginia officials from removing a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the state's capital city, but he immediately imposed another injunction against dismantling the figure. The new 90-day injunction...
Appeals court revives challenge to Maryland gun laws
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit challenging Maryland's rules for obtaining a handgun as unconstitutionally restrictive. The unanimous ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond reinstates the lawsuit, which was first filed in 2016 and tossed...
GM alleges Fiat Chrysler spent millions to bribe UAW leaders
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is asking a federal judge to reconsider his dismissal of a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler based on new allegations that FCA bribed union officials and GM employees with millions stashed in secret foreign bank accounts. GM alleges that bribes were paid to former United Auto...
Iowa governor has stopped AG from joining anti-Trump suits
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's Republican governor has rejected two-thirds of the Democratic state attorney general's requests to join multistate lawsuits, under an unusual compromise that has allowed her to repeatedly block the state's involvement in challenges to Trump administration policies. Iowa...
RFK's daughter sues over planter at father's former home
McLean, Va. (AP) — One of Robert F. Kennedy’s children is suing over custody of a decorative planter outside the historic northern Virginia home where the Kennedys once lived. The Washington Post reported Sunday that the dispute stems from the sale of RFK's famed “Hickory Hill” estate...
The Latest: China's Xinjiang region has 28 new cases
BEIJING — Numbers of new COVID-19 cases in China’s far northwestern region of Xinjiang are continuing to fall, with 28 reported on Monday. China reported 43 new cases nationwide, seven of the imported and eight in the northeastern province of Liaoning. No new deaths were reported, leaving...
The Latest: Italy's tally of new virus cases down to 239
MILAN — The number of new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Italy nudged lower to 239 in the last 24 hours, while all eight deaths were recorded in Lombardy, the epicenter of the country's epidemic. That brings the total number of cases in Italy to 248,070 and deaths to 35,154, according to Health...
US appeals ruling in Massachusetts Wampanoag land case
HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — The Department of the Interior is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that blocked it from rescinding a reservation designation for land belonging to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts, The Cape Cod Times reports the appeal was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court...
Lawyer thanked for work for Mississippi's 1st Black troopers
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An attorney is being honored for her work that forced the Mississippi Highway Patrol to hire its first Black troopers nearly a half century ago. In January 1970, Constance Slaughter-Harvey became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Mississippi law school. Just...
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