The Nevada Supreme Court barred the Green Party from the state’s November general election ballot, overturning a lower court ruling in the party’s favor.

In June the Nevada State Democratic Party filed a lawsuit alleging the Nevada Green Party submitted invalid signatures to appear on Nevada’s ballot. A District Court judge ruled against ...Read more

Denver is set to pay $465,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of two men shot in the head with less-lethal projectiles by police officers during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

Nicholas Orlin and Shawn Murphy jointly sued the city and up to five unknown police officers in January 2022, seeking damages for eye and facial injuries they ...Read more

Justice Samuel Alito is the only U.S. Supreme Court member with a stake in more than two dozen individual companies, a distinction that threatens to sideline him from major business cases.

Alito or his wife own tens of thousands of dollars of stock in companies including Raytheon Co., ConocoPhillips and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The ...Read more

The White Stripes are suing former President Donald Trump and his campaign for unlawfully using audio from their hit song, "Seven Nation Army," in a video posted on social media.

Jack White and Meg White, as the White Stripes, sued Trump, his campaign and his deputy director of communications Margo McAtee Martin Monday in the U.S. District ...Read more

A pro-Palestinian protester busted inside Hamilton Hall was indicted for burning an Israeli flag during an earlier incident at Columbia University, the Manhattan District Attorney announced Monday.

James Carlson, 40, was attending a demonstration on April 20 when a Jewish student had his Israeli flag stolen by another protester, prosecutors ...Read more

As the school year kicks off, local school districts have been “blindsided” by new students who are staying at a shelter housing migrant families, as Bay State officials announce nearly $2 million in federal funding to help dozens of districts.

Norfolk officials on Monday reported that 20 children staying at the former prison in town, which...Read more

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital for emergency heart surgery, his lawyer confirmed Monday.

“He wasn’t feeling well yesterday, he let us know, and we let Rikers and Bellevue know and convinced them to rush him to Bellevue [Sunday],” Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala told the Daily News...Read more

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban could step down from his position in the coming days after revelations his electronic devices were seized and home searched by federal authorities, sources say, though Mayor Eric Adams told reporters Monday the commissioner was continuing to do his job, and Caban has reportedly informed police officials he isn’t ...Read more

FITZGERALD — The grandfather of the 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect blamed the teen’s home life and father for creating an environment that led to last week’s violence that left two teachers and two students dead.

Charles Polhamus, speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday, said he largely blamed his grandson’s ...Read more

The acting director of the Secret Service has told the senators scrutinizing the agency’s budget that the near assassination of former President Donald Trump wasn’t caused by insufficient funding.

“While the reviews and investigations are ongoing, we do not believe the security failure of July 13, 2024 was the result of a lack of ...Read more

As advocates continue to press for more transparency from the Capitol Police, the agency can point to at least one recent change. Reports from its watchdog are slowly being released to the public, including a new batch out last month.

Such reports were mostly kept under wraps until a year ago. Now 38 of them are available on the website of the ...Read more

The murder trial of Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students, will be moved out of Moscow — and likely with a different judge presiding.

Judge John Judge of Idaho’s 2nd Judicial District in Latah County granted Kohberger’s request for a venue change. In turn, he handed the defense a significant win in the ...Read more

The manhunt for a suspect accused of shooting motorists along Interstate 75 in Laurel County Saturday remains ongoing, the Kentucky State Police said Monday afternoon.

KSP Trooper Scottie Pennington said he hopes constant pressure from law enforcement forces Joseph Couch, 32, to come out from wherever he may be hiding, potentially in the dense ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Last March, a man escaped from the second-story window of a motel in L.A.'s Koreatown and ran to a nearby boba shop, where he tried to tell workers he'd been held hostage.

He was there only for a moment before his alleged captors caught up to him, put him in a chokehold and punched him repeatedly in the face.

In a federal ...Read more

NYC Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for COVID on Monday and has canceled a number of scheduled events.

Adams was “feeling under the weather,” and took a test shortly after a Queens press conference on flood prevention, according to Fabian Levy, a spokesperson for the Mayor. The mayor’s positive test comes amid a summer resurgence of ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the use of his election police to question people who signed petitions for an amendment that would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban, saying it’s part of an investigation that has already uncovered fraud.

“They’re doing what they’re supposed to do,” DeSantis said when asked during a news ...Read more

JERUSALEM, Israel — The young American activist, newly arrived in the West Bank, was nervous but determined. She believed that her presence, along with that of other foreign protesters, could help protect the land and lives of Palestinian villagers in the shadow of an encroaching Jewish settlement.

On Friday, in the scant shelter of a few ...Read more