Supreme Court Justices Barrett and Kagan plead with congress for $230 million security budget – CBS News Watch CBS News Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan appeared before House and Senate committees Tuesday to argue for an increase to their security budget, testifying on the increasing threats they face. CBS News’ Taurean … Read more
The Wisconsin Elections Commission found that billionaire Elon Musk may have violated the state’s election bribery law by offering $1 million checks to voters during a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that Musk’s political action committee spent heavily in. The commission — which is made up of three Republicans and three Democrats — voted 5-1 last … Read more
Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified on Capitol Hill, advocating for the high court to receive a bigger security budget following an increase in security threats. CBS News’ Jan Crawford reports. Source link
When elite Swiss banker Ariane de Rothschild sought to extract her company from the teeth of a federal investigation into its role in helping high-end customers hide potentially billions from the IRS, documents show she turned to an unexpected American businessman for help: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In this new role, Epstein appears to … Read more
A giant Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton sold for $50.1 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday, marking a new record price for a dinosaur fossil. The T. rex, nicknamed Gus, is a towering figure, standing at 12.5 feet fall and roughly 38 feet long, according to Sotheby’s, the auction house that hosted the historic … Read more
E. Jean Carroll has collected her $5 million judgment against President Donald Trump, more than three years after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, court records show. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The money, which was being held in a … Read more
Three years after a jury concluded President Trump should pay $5 million in damages to the writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation, she has at last been paid. For Carroll, it’s a wait that began long before her federal civil lawsuit went to trial in 2023. The writer first went public with … Read more
About 20% of borrowers moved into two older repayment plans that will also be phased out by 2028. Source link
The federal government has announced a settlement proposal that would require the owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline to pay $26.9 million in civil penalties, linked to a major oil spill that dumped nearly half a million gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek in December 2022. The agreement would also require the … Read more
Severe weather alerts were in place for roughly 40 million people across the western United States on Sunday, as a heat dome scorching the region finally reached its peak. Forecasters warned of the dangers associated with the unusually prolonged bout of warmth, which they’ve called “exceptionally rare” for some locations, even in mid-July. The harshest … Read more