A federal court’s decision last week to allow a biological male at San Jose State University to compete in a women’s collegiate volleyball tournament added yet another layer to the growing patchwork of legal rulings surrounding transgender athletes. That case is still working its way through lower courts, but the decision has led opponents to
Prosecutors hope jurors will vote to convict Penny on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide Daniel Penny (Alex Kent/Getty Images) The judge overseeing the murder case against Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran accused of wrongfully killing a homeless man on a New York City subway, on Friday afternoon dropped the second-degree manslaughter charge against
Team Harris paid $900k to musicians in waning days of ill-fated campaign Kamala Harris embraces Beyoncé at a campaign rally in Texas (Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images) When Beyoncé Knowles appeared at a campaign rally for Kamala Harris in Houston days before the election, the pop superstar declared she was there not as a politician or a
Influential climate groups bankrolled by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss have emerged as some of the loudest voices opposing President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Gov. Doug Burgum (R., N.D.) to lead the Department of the Interior. “The threat speaks for itself,” Climate Power said immediately after Burgum’s nomination was announced last month, characterizing the North Dakota
The U.S. Naval Academy’s race-conscious admissions policies can remain in place, a federal judge ruled on Friday, arguing that racial diversity in the military “has enhanced national security.” The 175-page ruling by Senior District Judge Richard Bennett rejected arguments from Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the same group that swayed the Supreme Court in 2023
Federal law enforcement exploited the Suspicious Activity Report system to access and surveil Americans’ private financial data without warrants or probable cause, according to a report from the House Judiciary Committee. The FBI “manipulated” the SAR filing process by pressuring banks to file reports on individuals the FBI deems “suspicious,” making financial institutions “de facto
A federal appeals court denied TikTok’s request to overturn an April law requiring the social media platform to sever ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban in the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday TikTok must divest from CCP-controlled ByteDance by Jan. 19