AUSTIN – The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their transgender children. The 8-1 ruling from the all-Republican court, released Friday, leaves in place a law that has been in effect since Sept. 1, 2023. Texas
London — The results of the presidential election in November will be important to U.S. allies and adversaries around the world, so there was interest worldwide in the debate between President Biden and former President Trump. Foreign media outlets’ coverage of the debate can lend some insight into the priorities and viewpoints in other countries.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a former Pennsylvania police officer who was charged with obstructing an official proceeding after he entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, and narrowed the Justice Department’s use of a federal obstruction statute leveled against scores of people who breached the building
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, handing a defeat to President Joe Biden’s administration. The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of fishing companies that challenged a government-run program partly funded by industry that monitored overfishing of herring off New
Prosecutors laid charges under an evidence-tampering provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act aimed at curbing wrongdoing on Wall Street. The Supreme Court ruled on June 28 in favor of Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Fischer, a former police officer charged under an accounting reform law after he entered the U.S. Capitol for four minutes on Jan. 6,
A top official in President Biden’s reelection campaign reacted to questions about Thursday’s performance. A co-chairman of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign says it’s unlikely that the president will be replaced by another Democrat after Thursday night’s debate performance. Mitch Landrieu, national co-chair of the Biden Campaign, told CNN, “I don’t think that you can
Candidates’ surrogates put their ’spin’ on the historic first presidential debate of 2024. ATLANTA—The CNN Presidential Debate “spin room” featured a parade of possible VP picks and many other Republicans who touted former President Donald Trump’s performance onstage. But only a few Democrats were present to defend President Joe Biden following the candidates’ debate on