Tag: National governments
Student’s Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case
<p>WASHINGTON — Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting...
High court to hear Guantanamo prisoner’s state secrets case
<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether a Palestinian man captured in the wake of 9/11 and detained at the prison on the...
Supreme Court declines to hear wrestlers’ brain damage cases
<p>HARTFORD, Conn. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeals of several former pro wrestlers who claimed in lawsuits that...
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sleep loss in jail concerns judges
<p>NEW YORK — Appeals judges hearing bail arguments seemed sympathetic Monday to claims that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is unjustly kept awake at night...
Judge tosses suit that sought to block transgender athletes
HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in...
Chad military council: No talks with rebels who killed Deby
N'DJAMENA, Chad — Chad's military transitional government said Sunday it would not negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the country's president of three...
French protesters call for trial for Jewish woman’s killer
<p>PARIS — Crowds gathered Sunday in Paris and other French cities to denounce a ruling by France’s highest court that the killer of Jewish...
North Macedonia: Thousands protest conservatives’ jailings
<p>SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Thousands of opposition supporters protested Sunday in North Macedonia’s capital of Skopje demanding retrials and freedom for more than a...
Judge tosses suit that sought to block transgender athletes
<p>HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in...
Chad military council: No talks with rebels who killed Deby
<p>N'DJAMENA, Chad — Chad's military transitional government said Sunday it would not negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the country's president of three...