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Roberts was joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Read more
Bannon made the request to the justices on June 21 after a Washington-based federal appeals court rejected his bid to delay him from reporting to prison on July 1 — this coming Monday — as scheduled. Read more
The New York Times editorial board, which endorsed Biden in 2020, called on him to drop out of the race to give the Democratic Party a better chance of beating Trump by picking another candidate. Read more
The court’s conservative justices were in the majority, while its three liberal members dissented. Read more
Some Democratic strategists and fundraisers are privately asking whether the president must be replaced at the top of the party ticket. Read more
It also plans to shut up to 650 Boots stores in the UK and expects to record related pre-tax charges of between $3.8 billion and $4.1 billion, according to a regulatory filing. Read more
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, announced the order with immediate effect at Thursday’s Department of Education board meeting, in which he said special attention will be afforded to the Ten Commandments. Read more
The 6-3 ruling effectively reinstated a federal judge’s decision that Idaho’s Republican-backed near-total abortion ban must yield to a 1986 U.S. law when the two statutes conflict. Read more
Under its new NASA contract, SpaceX will build what the space agency called the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle to deorbit the space station and avoid risks to populated areas, with NASA taking ownership of the craft and handling the deorbiting operation. Read more
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A court spokesperson said in a statement that a document was “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the court’s website, and that the opinion in the case “will be issued in due course.” Read more
Chief U.S. District Judge Ramona V. Manglona accepted his guilty plea and released him due to time already served in a British jail. Read more
Officials are warning of dangerous conditions in the Philadelphia region where high humidity could drive heat indices above 105 F (41 C), making it feel even hotter than the actual temperature. Read more
The early boom in wildfires is casting new concerns about what the rest of 2024 will bring, especially with the hottest months ahead and another heat dome scorching interior California this weekend. Read more
Forty-five states and and the District of Columbia accuse Meta of unfairly ensnaring teenagers and children on Instagram and Facebook while deceiving the public about the hazards. Read more
The shooting occurred at the Mad Butcher grocery in Fordyce, a town of 3,200 people about 70 miles south of Little Rock. Read more
The Chinese representatives offered reassurances after their U.S. interlocutors raised concerns that China might use, or threaten to use, nuclear weapons if it faced defeat in a conflict over Taiwan. Read more
The 8-1 ruling, authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, overturned a lower court’s decision striking down the 1994 law as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.” Read more
Abraham Simmons, spokesperson for the department, did not say who the target of the search warrant was and declined to comment further. Read more
The vote was 7-2, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing the majority opinion. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, and the court’s three liberals. Read more
As of late Tuesday, about 1,400 homes and other structures had been destroyed. The entire New Mexico village of Ruidoso, population 7,000, was evacuated, officials added. Read more
The families said the Justice Department could potentially suspend $14 billion to $22 billion of the fine “on the condition that Boeing devote those suspended funds to an independent corporate monitor and related improvements in compliance and safety.” Read more
