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Courts & Law

This Jan. 25, 2022 photo shows a large trash incinerator in Rahway, N.J. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Environmental justice groups sue over incinerator pollution

The groups are asking a court to order the agency to update its standards for large incinerators, saying the EPA was supposed to do so at least 10 years ago.

4 years ago

Justice Stephen Breyer, photographed in 2021. (Elizabeth Gillis/NPR)
NPR
Government

Justice Stephen Breyer, an influential liberal on the Supreme Court, to retire

Breyer's retirement gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court.

4 years ago

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Philadelphia
Policing

Philadelphia police officer dragged 5 blocks by stolen SUV

Officers had stopped the vehicle on Tuesday night for several traffic violations when they saw what they believed was a gun, police said.

4 years ago

Supporters of then-President Donald Trump gather outside the Michigan State Capitol in 2020. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Government Accountability
Politics

Prosecutors in multiple states are investigating false Electoral College submissions

The efforts, which in many cases seem to have been coordinated by high-ranking members of Trump's campaign team, weren't successful.

4 years ago

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall over the constitutionality of Harvard University's affirmative action program. (Charles Krupa/AP)
NPR
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

The Supreme Court adds affirmative action to its potential hit list

The Court will revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education, deciding to hear cases challenging the use of race as one factor in admissions at Harvard.

4 years ago

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis poses for a photo at her Atlanta office last February. (John Bazemore/AP)
NPR
Elections
Government Accountability

A special grand jury has been granted in Fulton County’s Trump investigation

A special grand jury is also devoted to just one case. In its response Monday, the court said the special grand jury would begin on May 2 and continue for up to 12 months.

4 years ago

Larry Krasner
Crime
Gun Violence
Policing

Philly DA: City’s 2022 murder rate already outpacing record-deadly 2021

As homicides spike to a rate unseen in Philadelphia since the city began tracking murders, Philly DA Larry Krasner vows to focus on prosecuting gun crimes.

4 years ago

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's suit against The New York Times is expected to put a spotlight on the balance of free speech and defamation claims.
Cliff Owen/AP
NPR
Media

Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against ‘The New York Times’ gets its day in court

The case pits First Amendment protections for robust free speech against the right of someone not to be defamed.

4 years ago

People walk past the Sol Tribe tattoo shop on Broadway where two women were shot and killed and a man injured on December 27, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
NPR
Crime
Gun Violence
National

Attorney General Garland pledges a comprehensive response to violent crime

The federal government will stand "shoulder to shoulder" with communities working to fight gun violence, Merrick Garland tells a meeting of U.S. mayors.

4 years ago

People attend the March for Life rally on the National Mall in Washington, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. The March for Life, for decades an annual protest against abortion, arrives this year as the Supreme Court has indicated it will allow states to impose tighter restrictions on abortion with a ruling in the coming months. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Government
Health Care
National

Anti-abortion protesters optimistic at March for Life in DC

Thousands of anti-abortion protesters marched in the nation’s capital with a growing sense of optimism about the prospects this year of a sweeping rollback of abortion rights.

4 years ago

Health care workers administer nasal swabs to drivers and passengers at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site
Law
Philadelphia
Public Health
6abc

Company that opened pop-up COVID-19 testing site in Philly faces lawsuit

The lawsuit filed in Minnesota alleges Center for COVID Control either failed to deliver results or delivered inaccurate results.

4 years ago

Protester holding a picture of Fanta Bility
Law
Pennsylvania
Policing

Sharon Hill Borough Council fires 3 police officers charged in Fanta Bility’s death

The action came two days after the Delaware County DA filed charges in the August shooting death of the 8-year-old and the wounding of three others.

4 years ago

The Supreme Court shown Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant
NPR
Gender
Law
National

The Supreme Court for a third time allows Texas to bar abortions after 6 weeks

4 years ago

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Delaware
Law
Media

Top Delaware court rejects ex-Trump adviser’s defamation case against Yahoo, Huff Post

Delaware’s Supreme Court denied former Trump adviser Carter Page’s defamation lawsuit over media reports on his connections to Russian officials.

4 years ago

The former Pope Benedict XVI, seen here in 2010, did not intervene in four cases of sexual abuse when he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising, according to a law firm's new report. The inquiry was commissioned by the archdiocese. (Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Crime
Public Safety
Religion

Pope Benedict XVI failed to stop sex abuse when he was an archbishop, law firm says

Pope Benedict XVI failed to take action in four instances — including two that resulted in legal charges — while he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising.

4 years ago

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