• Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    Apr 10, 2015 10:40 PM EDT

    ... in a safe place. So, all of these things about how to increase the chance of your video mattering and being useful in the fight for accountability. HARI SREENIVASAN: The fight for accountability can be dangerous, especially overseas. When the government takes a drastic step and tries to evict people ...

  • What’s at stake for birth control in upcoming SCOTUS decision

    What’s at stake for birth control in upcoming SCOTUS decision

    Jun 18, 2014 02:30 PM EDT

    ... hotel or eat in our restaurant.” Windham of the Becket Fund finds all those scenarios far-fetched. “We’ve had this law on the books for 25 years and none of those cases have happened,” she said. During the arguments before the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito said much the ...

  • Debating tenure protections for public school teachers

    Debating tenure protections for public school teachers

    Jun 11, 2014 12:52 AM EDT

    ... rid of that and other laws, including seniority protections and dismissal procedures they say allow poorly performing teachers to stay in the classroom. But attorneys for the state and teachers unions told the judge the laws are key to recruiting and retaining a skilled teaching force, and were meant to ...

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    Gay Marriage Cases Now in Justices' Hands

    Mar 28, 2013 01:33 PM EDT

    ... a woman successfully climb an 18-ft bollard fence a few yards from us in #Nogales twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/...— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) March 27, 2013 For someone who came of age long before memes, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sure knows how to create one. #SkimMilkMarriage— Ari Shapiro (@arishapiro) March 27 ...

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    Justice Antonin Scalia

    Mar 10, 2007 01:10 AM EDT

    ... teaching, he decided to enter public service, serving in a variety of positions in the Nixon administration including the Office of Telecommunication Policy and the Justice Department's Office of Legal Council. After the Watergate scandal forced President Nixon out of office, President Gerald Ford assigned Scalia to determine the ...

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    Alito Becomes 110th Supreme Court Justice

    Jan 31, 2006 09:25 PM EDT

    The Senate voted 58-42 to confirm the former federal appellate judge, U.S. attorney and conservative lawyer for the Reagan administration as a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor, whose resignation became official with Tuesday's vote. All but one of the Senate's majority Republicans voted for Alito ...

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    Justice O'Connor's Legacy

    Jul 01, 2005 04:00 AM EDT

    ... decisions for everyone.RAY SUAREZ: And, quickly before we go, I guess the protégé is becoming the colleague. Tell us about the course you're teaching with her. RONNELL ANDERSON JONES: Justice O'Connor has agreed to teach a class here at the University of Arizona entitled, appropriately enough, the ...

  • A fact-checked guide to Trump's talking points and falsehoods at midterm rallies

    A fact-checked guide to Trump's talking points and falsehoods at midterm rallies

    Oct 01, 2026 11:41 PM EDT

    ... one of the largest annual declines in history, topped by a few declines in the 1990s that were larger, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. Homicide rates fell sharply in 2025, reaching the lowest level in decades, according to the FBI’s 2025 data. However, there is no reliable ...

  • Pope Leo XIV to launch his first encylical, a document on artificial intelligence, with Anthropic's co-founder

    Pope Leo XIV to launch his first encylical, a document on artificial intelligence, with Anthropic's co-founder

    May 18, 2026 02:51 PM EDT

    ... Industrial Revolution posed over a century ago. The new encyclical is expected to place the AI question in the context of the church's social teaching, which also covers issues such as labor, justice and peace. Anthropic chief Dario Amodei had worked at OpenAI before he and a group quit ...

  • News Wrap: Lutnick will testify in House investigation into Epstein

    News Wrap: Lutnick will testify in House investigation into Epstein

    Mar 03, 2026 11:25 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify in the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the father of an alleged school shooter in Georgia was found guilty of second-degree murder and officials in Pakistan say Afghan forces attacked its military positions along the border.