TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Gela Gogishvili and Haoyang Xu led a happy life as a gay couple in Russia, even as President Vladimir Putin’s government took an increasingly anti-LGBTQ+ stance. Their social media posts and videos drew thousands of followers, and they were greeted by them sometimes on the streets in Kazan, in Russia’s Tatarstan…
In the final 11 days of the 2024 election, a new conservative Super PAC launched a $20 million campaign to boost Donald Trump and aggressively troll liberals. The group, called RBG PAC, ran ads claiming that Trump would not support a federal abortion ban — and that he actually has the same position on abortion…
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – The Supreme Court is weighing the future of gender affirming care for minors after hearing arguments in U.S. v Skrmetti. The advocates and those against gender affirming care for kids packed the front steps of the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Transgender advocates said gender affirming care for minors is necessary healthcare….
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will not participate in an environmental case to be argued next week involving a proposed railway in Utah, the court said on Wednesday, a move that followed a call by some Democratic lawmakers for him to recuse over a possible…
Tesla (TSLA) has made it clear that it’s willing to go the distance to reinstate CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package. Just hours after Delaware’s top Chancery Court judge struck down a June Tesla shareholder vote in favor of the deal, Tesla vowed to ask a higher court to overturn the decision. “The court’s…
The Delaware judge who denied Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk a $56 billion compensation package once did so for a second time on Monday, dealing a fresh legal defeat to the billionaire as he prepares for a major role in President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration. The ruling all but assures another court battle over Musk’s…
Donald Trump and “first buddy” Elon Musk aren’t even formally in power yet, but they already appear to be chafing at the spending constraints Congress could place on them. So political and economic observers might be wise to familiarize themselves with the wonky concept of “impoundment,” which concerns what happens when Congressionally appropriated money simply…
On Monday afternoon at N.W.T. Supreme Court, a Yellowknife man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a minor in 2021. Bradley Storm Beaulieu, 26, appeared virtually from a prison in Alberta to enter the plea. Justice Louise Charbonneau explained to Beaulieu this means he gives up his right to trial and that he accepts that the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to keep alive a class-action lawsuit accusing Nvidia of misleading investors about its dependence on selling computer chips for the mining of volatile cryptocurrency. The justices heard arguments in the tech company’s appeal of a lower-court ruling allowing a 2018 suit led by a Swedish…
President-elect Donald Trump is moving aggressively on mass deportation, installing two of the most strident anti-immigrant voices in his circle in key positions. Their selection sets the stage for the administration to take the hardest possible line on Trump’s signature issue: vastly reducing the number of immigrants in this country. What’s coming will be ugly….