"Why would you think that these nine people are the best people to judge and weigh those policy judgments?" Chief Justice Roberts's question is a good one! Happy to make decisions about women's health care, this non-expert panel of the country's supreme experts on cruel and unusual punishment seems not to understand their role. — Read the rest
Don’t hold your breath on Trump testifying in his own defense. It would likely be embarrassing, if not perjuriousDonald Trump dodged financial calamity on Monday. The office of Letitia James, the New York attorney general, and lawyers for Trump reached agreement in open court on the terms governing the appellate bond posted by the former president. After nearly an hour of argument and an extended recess, the parties achieved a workable solution. It is a ray of sunshine in Trump’s otherwise bleak...
The pharma giant previously received billions in federal funding and raked in huge profits, but owes nothing in 2023 income taxes thanks to legal loopholes and Trump-era tax cuts.
Persistent Covid infections in immuno-compromised patients can result in new variants which may be more difficult to combat, a team of Amsterdam UMC researchers had warned. Doctors discovered that the Omikron variant of the virus had mutated 50 times while inside the body of one patient who was 72 years old and suffering from underlying illnesses. He became infected in 2022, was hospitalised and continued to test positive for the virus until he died 613 days later. Doctors said that
Australia is yet to declare victory against inflation and hotter-than-expected price data out of the world’s biggest economy and fresh volatility in oil markets are casting shadows over the outlook. AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina says the recent uptick in United States’ inflation data is concerning but Australia is experiencing different consumer price trends […]
Sunshine finally allowed temperatures to break into the upper 80s on Friday. That warmth will be booted away by a cold front with showers and thunderstorms over the weekend.Tonight & Tomorrow: Clouds will fill in once again through the overnight hours. Some patchy fog may even develop by dawn. Low temperatures will be quite muggy in the low 70s. A weakening cold front will drift into the region from the north during the daytime hours of Saturday. Mostly cloudy skies, with a few breaks of sun...
Driver learns that hammering the throttle can be dangerous in a Dodge Viper
A Sheffield mum has described how she grabbed her baby and dodged out the way of a 15-metre tall oak tree as it came crashing down in a city park. Francesca Dodd, aged 25, says she and her nine-month-old daughter, Lily Joy Wright, had only stopped for a rest on a bench in Endcliffe Park at around 4pm on Sunday (April 14) when she heard a “horrendous noise” behind her. “If that bench had been a metre to the left I think we would both have been killed,” Fran told The Star. “I can only describe the...
The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found. The AP drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents, leaked recordings, and dozens of interviews that showed the
The president and his wife have little interest in practicing what they preach when it comes to 'tax fairness.'
Curtis Means-Pool/Getty ImagesIt's the eye-roll inducing excuse every judge
Curtis Means-Pool/Getty ImagesIt’s the eye-roll inducing excuse every judge has heard: I simply can’t be fair. Except with Donald Trump, it might be true.The first day of Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan ran straight into that near-impossible challenge: finding a group of New Yorkers who could give a tabloid target and one of the most controversial presidents in recent history a fair hearing.Of the 96 potential jurors brought into the courtroom Monday afternoon for screening, around half...