Recent Updates
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Ford cuts 2024 earnings guidance due to warranty costs and slow pace of cost cutting
National News 10/25/2024Stubbornly high warranty expenses and lagging cost-cutting efforts are holding back Ford Motor Co.'s profits this year, causing the company to lower its full-year earnings guidance.That pushed the company’s stock price down 6% in trading after ...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
National News 10/08/2024The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company re...
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North Carolina appeals court blocks use of UNC's digital ID for voting
National News 09/27/2024A North Carolina appeals court on Friday blocked students and employees at the state's flagship public university from providing a digital identification produced by the school when voting to comply with a new photo ID mandate.The decision by a three...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment
National News 09/17/2024Sean “Diddy” Combs headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes protected by blackmail and shocking acts of violence.The music mogul is charged...
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‘The Mentalist’ star Simon Baker admits drinking and driving in Australia
National News 09/11/2024Australian actor and director Simon Baker, best known for his role as Patrick Jane in the CBS drama series “The Mentalist,” avoided a conviction Wednesday after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol near hi...
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Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit
National News 09/03/2024Veering from the campaign trail to a courtroom, Donald Trump quietly observed Friday as his lawyer fought to overturn a verdict finding the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.The Republican nominee and his accuser, E. Jean Carrol...
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Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
National News 07/21/2024A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...
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Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute
National News 06/02/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...
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TikTok content creators sue the US government over potential ban
National News 05/14/2024Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a y...
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Supreme Court will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal
National News 05/05/2024The state Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal without allowing any lower appellate courts to rule first.The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, sued in December 2022 o...
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Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
National News 04/26/2024Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former preside...
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Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid
National News 04/08/2024The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.In an ext...