Tag: Law

Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are among the group of female celebrities who said they also experienced harassment and assault from entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein. (AP Photos)

Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment

Anna Giaritelli · October 10, 2017 6:37 pm

The chief justice asked Obama's Supreme Court nominee to run the "senior executive arm" of the conference, which makes recommendations to Congress regarding legislation involving the judiciary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Chief Justice John Roberts picks Merrick Garland for new job

Ryan Lovelace · October 10, 2017 5:18 pm

Former West Virginia coal mining executive Don Blankenship was convicted and served jail time for attempting to violate federal mine safety standards after the death of 29 miners in 2010.

Energy and Environment

Supreme Court rejects former coal CEO’s appeal over mining disaster

John Siciliano · October 10, 2017 4:13 pm

DeAndre Harris is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police in Charlottesville, Va. Harris is now facing felony charges, according to a new report. (Zach D. Roberts via AP)

African-American man who was attacked by white supremacists in Charlottesville now faces felony charges

Katie Leach · October 10, 2017 4:13 pm

Any new climate rules should be as neutral as possible. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

EPA, do us all a favor and don’t pick favorites

Washington Examiner · October 10, 2017 4:01 am

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday he would sue the Trump administration for repealing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, a major regulation restricting greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Energy and Environment

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman plans to sue Trump for repealing Clean Power Plan

Josh Siegel · October 9, 2017 6:27 pm

California Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill that would require drug companies to justify planned price hikes to their medications. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

California to pass drug price transparency bill

Kimberly Leonard · October 9, 2017 3:01 pm

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks about the upcoming wildfire season at the Capitol in Phoenix, Ariz., on April 11. The $1.5 million joint initiative between Arizona's Department of Corrections and Department of Forestry and Fire Management is a passion project of the state's first-term Republican governor. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Prisoners start new lives fighting fires in Arizona

Naomi Lim · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

Under current law, the federal government isn't required to obtain a warrant to get cell phone location information under what's known as the "third-party doctrine," derived from two Supreme Court decisions from the 1970s. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Supreme Court takes up warrantless cellphone searches

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

The continued lack of inflation in Chinese imports, despite sharply rising wages for Chinese factory workers, is the single most important "unknown" economic statistic for policy today.

Credit Chinese imports for keeping inflation low

Washington Examiner Staff · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

The Trump administration has tweaked the rule so employers who object on moral or religious grounds to providing birth control can get an exemption. Workers who want birth control will have to find it elsewhere. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

The birth control mandate has been stalled. Now let’s kill it

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2017 4:01 am

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is suing the Trump administration in federal court for allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming moral or religious objections. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California files legal challenge against Trump’s rollback of birth control mandate

Diana Stancy Correll · October 7, 2017 12:26 am