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Court decisions in Michigan and North Carolina deny GOP challenges to overseas voters
Courts in Michigan and North Carolina on Monday rejected attempts by Republicans to disqualify the ballots of certain overseas voters. Both cases targeted people who have never lived in the state but were born overseas to parents who were residents of the state. The Michigan case...
Brazil environmental disaster victims take case against mining giant BHP to UK court
LONDON (AP) — Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 people and devastating local communities. The class action lawsuit at...
University of Michigan's gun ban will stand after court declines to hear appeal
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A ban on guns at the University of Michigan will stand after the state Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a man who said the policy violates the Constitution. The 4-2 order Friday means a 2023 Michigan Court of Appeals decision in favor of the...
Votes won't be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas voters won’t get to weigh in on a ballot initiative to expand medical marijuana after the state Supreme Court ruled the measure didn't fully explain what it would do, tossing out the initiative just two weeks before the election. It’s too late...
Philippine court jails 17 militants for life for mass kidnapping of tourists
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court has convicted and sentenced to life 17 Islamic militants for kidnapping for ransom 21 people, including European tourists and Asian workers, from a dive resort in Malaysia more than two decades ago, officials said Monday. The Filipino...
Supreme Court won’t revive Michael Cohen’s lawsuit against Trump claiming retaliatory imprisonment
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Michael Cohen, who wanted to hold his former boss and ex-president Donald Trump liable for a jailing he said was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir. The justices did not detail their reasoning in the brief,...
Texas' junk science law is getting another look over Robert Roberson's case
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Robert Roberson's execution was abruptly halted in Texas, it was due to a subpoena ordering him to testify over a legal backstop that both Republicans and Democrats say should had saved him long ago: Texas’ junk science law. The 2013 law allows a person...
Republicans and Democrats are both preparing for long legal battles over the 2024 election results
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump, who still refuses to accept that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, says he wants a presidential victory Nov. 5 to be so overwhelming that the results are “too big to rig.” “We want a landslide," he recently told...
Voters in Arizona and Nebraska will face competing ballot measures. What happens if they both pass?
Voters in Nebraska and Arizona will see competing measures on their November ballots — in one case about abortion, in the other about primary elections. If voters approve them all, what happens next could be up to the courts to decide. Like more than a dozen other states, Arizona...
Settlement enshrines tribe's rights to use part of a national preserve for cultural practices
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A settlement reached by the U.S. government and a Native American tribe in New Mexico signals the end to what has been a yearslong legal fight over claims to the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Government attorneys in a filing Friday asked a federal...
