Several Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of justifications put forward by the NCAA on Wednesday to restrict education-related benefits for student athletes who are seeking broader compensation. At the same time, however, the justices expressed concern about the future and distinctiveness of college sports if courts continue down the road of second-guessing the NCAA’s definition
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The Biden administration will remove dozens of Trump-appointed advisers from two Environmental Protection Agency panels. EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced on Wednesday the decision to remove members from two important panels, the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, a move many career officials within the agency as well as outside environment
Continue Reading Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has added her name to the chorus of top Democrats who believe it is time to get rid of the Senate filibuster specifically to pass bills relating to voting rights. Clinton made the comments on “Just Something About Her,” a podcast hosted by Jennifer Palmieri, the former White House
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Tony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday that the United States had received the $335 million settlement from Sudan that will be paid out to victims and families of individuals impacted by the 1998 bombings at the US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden believes Americans “deserve better information” about the origin of Covid-19 and further steps from the global community, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday after the release of a World Health Organization report that said the pandemic is very likely to have started with transmission from one animal to another, and
Continue ReadingRep. Matt Gaetz on Tuesday denied that he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old after the New York Times reported that, according to its sources, the Justice Department was investigating a possible sexual relationship with the girl and whether he paid for her to travel with him. The Florida Republican said in a statement
Continue ReadingThe Bidens’ dog Major has been involved in another biting incident that required medical attention, two people with knowledge of the incident tell CNN. The incident, which involved a National Park Service employee, took place on the White House South Lawn on Monday afternoon. The employee was working at the time and needed to stop
Continue Reading Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the justices got it wrong in 2016 when they upheld the University of Texas’ affirmative action practices, as state officials are now backing a lawsuit against Harvard’s use of race in admissions. “Abigail Fisher was right,” Paxton wrote in a provocative “friend of
Continue Reading More than two months into his term, President Joe Biden has yet to name a single ambassador to send overseas, putting him behind the pace set by his most recent predecessors and leading to early frustrations among some career State Department officials and big-time Democratic donors. Though Biden has been presented with the names of
Continue Reading The Supreme Court will take up a case that could reshape college sports on Wednesday, pitting the NCAA and 11 conferences against a class of student athletes seeking compensation. It comes as college sports raise billions of dollars from ticket sales, television contracts and merchandise and supporters of the students say they are being exploited
Continue ReadingG. Gordon Liddy — a former FBI agent, organizer of the Watergate break-in and radio show host — has died at age 90, his son confirmed to CNN. Liddy died Tuesday morning in Mt. Vernon, Virginia, and though he suffered from a “variety of ailments,” his death was not Covid-19 related, his son, Thomas Liddy,
Continue ReadingAn intruder gained entry to the Swiss ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC, on Monday afternoon and assaulted the ambassador, according to a statement filed in federal district court by the responding Secret Service officer. The officer said in the statement filed Tuesday in support of a criminal complaint that he was dispatched to the residence,
Continue ReadingEvery day he works from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden stares across from his desk at the portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt he selected to hang above his fireplace. His aides passed around biographies and historic accounts of the 32nd president before taking over the West Wing, a person familiar with the preparation said.
Continue Reading Texas and 13 other Republican-led states have filed a long shot bid with the Supreme Court asking the justices to allow the states to defend a controversial Trump-era rule that makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain legal status if they use certain public benefits, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers. The
Continue ReadingA New York appeals court on Tuesday paved the way for a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to move forward. In a one-sentence order, the appeals court granted the request form Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” to dismiss Trump’s appeal now that he is no longer in office. RELATED: This
Continue Reading Nursing home residents on Medicaid have some more time to spend their stimulus checks, but they shouldn’t wait too long. Typically, Medicaid enrollees are only allowed to have a limited amount of assets, outside of their primary residence, car and other essentials. For single people, it’s usually around $2,000. Those who exceed that threshold could
Continue ReadingThe Democratic National Committee on Tuesday announced it will review the 2020 presidential nomination process, setting the stage for changes on how the party will choose who is at the top of the ticket in 2024. The evaluation, to be conducted by the members of the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, will focus on reforms
Continue Reading Late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis‘ posthumous graphic novel, “Run: Book One,” is set to be released this summer, as the fight for voting rights intensifies in Lewis’ own state of Georgia and efforts are under way to restrict voter access in more than 40 states. The novel is a sequel to Lewis’ graphic
Continue Reading Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Tuesday formally dismissed the statements of a controversial Trump-era committee that argued that some rights may not be worthy of protection — an initiative that civil liberty groups and advocacy organizations feared would have damaging effects on human rights abroad and the freedoms of women and LGBTQ people. Blinken
Continue Reading After two years of searching for problems with the investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign advisers in 2016 and their ties to Russia, federal prosecutor John Durham hasn’t found wrongdoing by Obama-era intelligence officials involved who were outside of the FBI. But Durham is still at work, looking at early aspects of the FBI investigation into
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