Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation
ATLANTA (AP) — Same fight. New generation. That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a mostly white conservative alliance dismantling the Voting Rights Act and political districts that
Florida court to consider whether new US House map violates state ban on partisan gerrymandering
New U.S. House districts that could help Republicans win several additional seats in Florida are set to face their first test in court Friday against assertions that they violate a state constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering. Lawsuits
A Texas town may offer a preview of a Trump plan to force noncitizens from public housing
PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) — Until recently, young children ran in and out of their public housing homes in this Gulf Coast town, playing on sun-dappled lawns as mothers looked over their shoulders for the school bus
New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Democratic governor on Thursday signed into law a bill that uses a novel approach to reduce the influence of corporations and hard-to-track “dark money” groups that have been able to spend unlimited amounts
US agrees to settle lawsuit that accused an Indian billionaire of hiding an alleged bribery scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against one of the world’s richest people who is accused of duping investors by concealing that his company’s huge solar energy project in
Small medical plane crashes in New Mexico mountains, killing all 4 people aboard
A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, before dawn Thursday, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest, officials said. The fire had grown to 35
Texas puts man to death for a retired professor’s killing in its 600th execution since 1982
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of
Justice Thomas hails US Constitution as common bedrock in divided America
MIAMI (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence not with fireworks or empty platitudes, but by standing up for their deeply held beliefs, with the comforting knowledge that
US set to drop criminal fraud case against India’s Gautam Adani, sources say, as deal reached in civil case
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Andrew Goudsward May 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is close to dropping criminal fraud charges against Gautam Adani, an Indian billionaire who has promised to invest $10 billion in the U.S. economy, according
US judge blocks key parts of Texas migrant arrest law
By Nate Raymond May 14 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas authorities from enforcing key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed