The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. ... Notably absent from Biden's policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes. read more
Recent protests blocking roadways over the Israel-Hamas war has led to Democrats looking to team up with Republicans in California to increase the penalty for protestors. Monday, the Assembly Transportation Committee passed Assembly Bill 2742 on an 8-5 vote, with four Democrats siding with Republicans to push it through. read more
Donald Trump has risked violating his gag order to talk about all of the trial witnesses except one -- former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. "Donald Trump went after [Michael] Cohen, he went Cohen in the opening, on social media, but he's silent. It's almost like he's endorsing Pecker and that's terrible for him," trial lawyer Michael Popok said on the LegalAF podcast. "He hasn't done a darn thing to tear down Pecker. Pecker is dumping willingly on Donald Trump and supporting the entire case."
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern: There will be no more self-soothing after this. read more
The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in the U.S. read more
"I hated that dog," [Kristi] Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself "untrainable," "dangerous to anyone she came in contact with" and "less than worthless ... as a hunting dog ... At that moment, I realized I had to put her down." read more
Less than a week after the arrests of more than 100 protesters at Columbia, administrators at some of the country's most influential universities were struggling, and largely failing, to calm campuses torn by the conflict in Gaza and Israel. ... "We're all a united front," said Malak Afaneh, a law student protesting at University of California, Berkeley. "This was inspired by the students at Columbia who, in my opinion, are the heart of the student movement whose bravery and solidarity with Palestine really inspired us all."
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself. read more
David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer's parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney's office in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, according to a person familiar with the plans. read more
Stephen A. Crockett Jr. - For forty years Clarence Thomas has been an albatross for Black people, an arbiter of "do as I say, not as I do" politics, a mime whose silence on the bench has been deafening. And, he's been all the things he claims to hate about Black people: He's a welfare queen, a duplicitous double agent, a diversity hire, a beneficiary of reparations and a minstrel show. read more
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