
The Hill - 3 hours 18 min ago
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested Saturday and deemed a flight risk for an alleged attempt to avoid his 27-year prison sentence related to his efforts to stay in power in 2023. The preemptive arrest was conducted after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Bolsonaro's ankle monitor was violated early Saturday morning,...

Fortune - 4 hours 6 min ago
The order will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.

The Guardian - 4 hours 14 min ago
Bolsonaro was under house arrest for masterminding coup to stop 2022 election winner, Luiz In cio Lula da Silva, taking office Brazil's former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro , has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Bras lia , amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup. In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The...

NPR - 5 hours 40 min ago
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, with a judge claiming the former president was intent on escaping as he was set to begin his prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

The Guardian - 5 hours 41 min ago
Temporary hold on lower court ruling will remain in place while supreme court considers whether to allow new map The US supreme court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas's 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump likely discriminated on the basis of race. The order, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map, which is favorable to Republicans, to...

Newser - 7 hours 1 min ago
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, days before he was to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. The embattled leader was taken to the headquarters of the country's Federal Police in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest,...

Newser - 7 hours 21 min ago
Justice Samuel Alito has temporarily reinstated Texas' contested congressional map, a move that could boost Republicans by up to five seats in the 2026 midterms, while the Supreme Court reviews a lower court's decision that found the map likely relied on unconstitutional racial considerations. The redistricting plan, pushed by Texas...

UPI - 16 hours 50 min ago
The U.S. Supreme Court justice at least temporarily paused a lower court's decision to throw out Texas' new congressional map to potentially add five seats for Republicans.

Fox News - 17 hours 24 min ago
Texas' redistricting battle heads to Supreme Court as state challenges ruling that blocked congressional map designed to help Republicans gain five seats.

NBC News - 17 hours 38 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily permitted Texas to use Republicans' redrawn congressional map that a federal court blocked earlier this week...

The Independent - 18 hours 1 min ago
The justices have previously blocked lower-court rulings in redistricting disputes, notably in Alabama and Louisiana...

The Hill - 18 hours 40 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas's congressional map that adds up to five GOP pickup opportunities until the high court rules on the state's emergency appeal. Alito's order, known as an administrative stay, does not reflect the underlying merits of the map's constitutionality. But it temporarily allows Texas Republicans to keep...

The Independent - 18 hours 56 min ago
Doctors found in violation could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine...

NY Post - 19 hours 9 min ago
A Bronx daycare owner and her husband were convicted of murder Friday for causing the death of a 22-month-old baby from fentanyl exposure a verdict little Nicholas Dominici’s mom called “justice.” Jurors deliberated in Bronx Supreme Court for four days before convicting the couple of second-degree murder for showing “depraved indifference” by hiding fentanyl...

Boston Herald - 19 hours 17 min ago
The state called on the high court to intervene to avoid confusion.

New York Times - 19 hours 39 min ago
Protesters in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol in August as lawmakers debated a redrawn congressional map. The map created five new Republican-favored seats.

The Hill - 19 hours 46 min ago
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) asked the Supreme Court Friday to revive the state's congressional map that would add up to five pickup opportunities for Republicans in the midterm elections. Without the Supreme Court's intervention, the map will remain blocked for next year after a lower court panel ruled 2-1 it is likely a racial gerrymander....

ABC News - 21 hours 41 min ago
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is appealing a ruling that has stalled the criminal case against President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others for trying to overturn Trump's 2020 el...

New York Magazine - 21 hours 52 min ago
As Democratic and Republican gerrymanders cancel each other, SCOTUS could give the GOP a big edge in cases on Texas and on the Voting Rights Act.