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Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Scotland with protection zone in place
A 3km protection zone is in place around a premises in Angus after an outbreak of the H5N1 virus.BBC News - Jan. 10 -
Rich opt out of English courts for private divorces
Wealthy couples splitting up increasingly turn to arbitration as streamlined alternative to overburdened traditional routeFinancial Times - Jan. 10 -
Russian court approves scandal-hit Wildberries merger
Two people were killed in September shootings at headquarters of retailer co-founded by country’s richest womanFinancial Times - Jan. 10 -
Legal analysis of the TikTok ban Supreme Court arguments
The Supreme Court justices appeared troubled during oral arguments about the apparent national security risks behind TikTok. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford breaks down the court's ...CBS News - Jan. 10 -
Biden extends temporary protections for more than 800,000 immigrants
US president moves to shield roughly 230,000 Salvadorans and 600,000 Venezuelans against Trump administration. The Biden administration on Friday extended temporary humanitarian protections for ...The Guardian - Jan. 10 -
Secret Service officially ends protection of Jimmy Carter following burial
The Secret Service is officially ending its safeguarding of former President Carter, who the agency says has the distinction of being its longest-serving protectee. The federal law enforcement ...The Hill - Jan. 10 -
Supreme Court TikTok arguments touched on free speech
The Supreme Court heard arguments on a law passed by Congress to ban TikTok in the U.S. CBS News' Catherine Cole breaks down what was said about free speech and China's influence on the social ...CBS News - Jan. 10 -
Inside Trump's "hush money" sentencing court proceeding
President-elect Donald Trump's "hush money" sentencing will go down in history as he prepares to take over the White House. CBS News' Katrina Kaufman has more on the atmosphere inside the ...CBS News - Jan. 10 -
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Disney's KABC and PBS SoCal stations' signals from Mt. Wilson restored amid Eaton fire
Flames from the Eaton fire came perilously close to the Mt. Wilson transmitters, and local stations, including KABC, PBS SoCal and radio KLOS-FM, reported losing transmissions.Los Angeles Times - Jan. 10 -
Supreme Court to hear arguments on the fate of TikTok in the U.S.
The Supreme Court on Friday will hear arguments that could determine the fate of TikTok. More than 170 million Americans use the social media platform. A law passed by Congress is set to take ...CBS News - Jan. 10 -
Supreme Court hears arguments over the fate of TikTok
Listen to live coverage as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in TikTok's appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require the app to shut down in the United States. TikTok says ...NBC News - Jan. 10 -
US regulator plans to toughen customer protection on crypto accounts
CFPB proposes to put digital wallets under same standard as bank accountsFinancial Times - Jan. 10 -
The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers
In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars.Wired - Jan. 10 -
Supreme Court to hear arguments on TikTok ban soon
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday challenging the federal TikTok ban. Right now, the ban is set to go into effect January 19 unless TikTok's parent company, China-based ByteDance, sells ...CBS News - Jan. 10 -
Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
The political scientist Erica Frantz describes the regime change the second Trump administration represents.The New York Times - Jan. 10 -
Kenya court rules that criminalising attempted suicide is unconstitutional
The judgment has been welcomed as an important shift in perceptions by human rights and mental health groups. A Kenyan judge has declared as unconstitutional sections of the country’s laws that ...The Guardian - Jan. 10 -
California Sen. Alex Padilla says protecting California "shouldn't be a political conversation"
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California joins "America Decides" to discuss the devastating wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area. He also addresses President-elect Donald Trump's criticisms of ...CBS News - Jan. 9 -
Judge Rejects Biden’s Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students
The decision threw out the administration’s proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.The New York Times - Jan. 9 -
Biden’s Title IX expansion protecting LGBTQ+ students struck down
Judge in Kentucky finds rules overstepped president’s authority and scraps entire 1,500-page regulation. The Biden administration ’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have ...The Guardian - Jan. 9 -
New Orleans truck attack victims sue city for neglecting to protect them
Lawsuit claims contractors and city failed to implement an effective system for deterring a known threat, the suit says. Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the ...The Guardian - Jan. 9 -
Judge scraps Biden's Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students
The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s ...ABC News - Jan. 9 -
Trump pushes court to block Smith report entirely
President-elect Trump asked an appeals court to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on both investigations into him. Trump’s filing comes after the 11th Circuit Court of ...The Hill - Jan. 9 -
Democrats kick off fight to protect ObamaCare subsidies in new Congress
Democrats in the House and Senate reintroduced legislation Thursday to permanently extend enhanced subsidies to help people afford insurance premiums on ObamaCare plans. Led by Sens. Jeanne ...The Hill - Jan. 9 -
TikTok’s Last Stand Before Supreme Court Looms
The video platform app’s fate is bound up in collision of free speech and national security, which will be debated in a hearing that starts Friday.Inc. - Jan. 9 -
NY top court denies delaying Trump sentencing
New York’s high court on Thursday declined to halt President-elect Trump’s sentencing on his hush money criminal conviction, which is scheduled for Friday morning. In a terse note, the New York ...The Hill - Jan. 9 -
Polish president seeks protection for Netanyahu if he attends Auschwitz event
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is asking the country’s government to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can attend observances marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of ...ABC News - Jan. 9 -
Health experts rally for ‘call to arms’ to protect children from toxic chemicals
In new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, leading researchers to propose action to protect kids. Children are suffering and dying from diseases that emerging scientific research has ...The Guardian - Jan. 8 -
Biden administration jettisons effort to protect old-growth forests
The Biden administration is dropping its efforts to issue a policy to protect old-growth forests — though the president previously touted protecting such forests as an important component of his ...The Hill - Jan. 8 -
Meta changes hate speech rules, dropping LGBTQ protections
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, dropped some LGBTQ protections from its hate speech rules Tuesday amid a wider overhaul of the social media giant’s content moderation ...The Hill - Jan. 8 -
Biden establishes largest corridor of protected land by adding 2 new monuments
The two new monuments -- the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands -- total nearly 850,000 acres, according to the administration.ABC News - Jan. 7 -
Meta Drops Rules Protecting LGBTQ Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul
The changes included allowing users to share “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”The New York Times - Jan. 7 -
Rudy Giuliani Is Held in Contempt of Court in Defamation Case
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has failed to turn over his assets to two Georgia poll workers who won a defamation lawsuit against him.The New York Times - Jan. 7 -
Rudy Giuliani found in contempt of court
A judge has found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to requests for information in response to a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election ...CBS News - Jan. 6 -
Napolitano: Noem should answer how she’d protect FEMA from misinformation
Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday that Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), should be able to say how she ...The Hill - Jan. 6 -
Courts in ‘State of Disarray’ on Law Disarming Felons
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ducked Second Amendment challenges to the law. Starkly differing decisions from federal appeals courts last month may change that.The New York Times - Jan. 6