George Nyavor
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved California’s request to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. This decision, announced on Wednesday, grants the state a waiver under the Clean Air Act for its Advanced Clean Cars II Rule and Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation. Legal Basis for the Waiver California’s request hinged…
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A Georgia appellate court has ruled to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the case related to their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The decision marks a significant development in the legal proceedings surrounding Trump’s alleged election interference and may undermine efforts…
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TikTok has filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block the enforcement of a federal law that could compel the platform to shut down in the United States by Jan. 19, 2025. The petition challenges the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, signed into law in…
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In a pivotal decision, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled on December 9th that Omegle.com, a now-defunct video chat service, is not liable for the exploitation of an 11-year-old girl who was coerced into creating child pornography by a stranger she encountered on the platform. The case raises significant questions about…
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A former federal correctional officer in Kentucky has been sentenced to 100 months in prison for sexually abusing three female inmates under his care. Jacob Salcido, 40, of Lexington, will also face a lifetime of supervised release and must pay $21,000 in restitution to each of his victims. Salcido, who worked at the Federal Medical…
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In a report released Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) disclosed that the DOJ secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 congressional staffers, including Kash Patel, during the Trump administration. The surveillance, part of a broad investigation into leaks of classified information, has raised serious…
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In a historic use of presidential clemency powers, President Joe Biden granted clemency to nearly 1,500 individuals on Thursday, marking the largest single-day exercise of such authority in modern U.S. history. The sweeping action includes approximately 1,500 sentence commutations for individuals moved to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and 39 pardons for non-violent offenders…
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, renowned as the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the United States, is set to achieve another milestone this weekend, making her Broadway debut in the hit musical & Juliet. This special one-night performance will take place on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET and will…
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The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that the odor of raw cannabis is sufficient to justify a warrantless search of a vehicle, setting a significant precedent in cannabis-related legal cases. On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its decision regarding a case involving Vincent Molina, a passenger in a car stopped by a police officer…
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has urged Congress to reject a controversial provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would bar healthcare coverage for transgender children of servicemembers. HRC President Kelley Robinson denounced the provision on Saturday, describing it as a “slap in the face” to military families. “Anti-equality House Republican leaders are…
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