A federal court blocked late Tuesday the emptying of the Dakota Access pipeline, allowing the continued delivery of crude oil as the legal battle plays out over a judge’s shutdown order. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia temporarily halted the July 6 order for the 1,172-mile pipeline to shut down and…
A federal judge on Saturday allowed the forthcoming publication of John Bolton’s memoir to go ahead next week despite concerns it contains classified information - but tore into the former national security adviser for having “gambled” with national security.“Defendant Bolton has gambled with the national security of the United States. He has exposed his country…
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Geneticists said more evidence is needed to determine if a common genetic variation of the virus spreads more easily between people.A transmission electron micrograph of the coronavirus, red, developing in a cell.Credit...Eye of Science/Science SourceJune 12, 2020Updated 1:54 p.m. ETFor months, scientists have debated why one genetic variation of the coronavirus became dominant in many…
Mark Tenally/ASSOCIATED PRESS Mark Tenally/ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated at 9:54 a.m. ET President Trump will not be able to shake off a lawsuit that accuses him of violating the Constitution by continuing to own his businesses while serving as president, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9-6 decision by the full 4th Circuit Court of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…