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Philadelphia lawyer George Bochetto demanded SEPTA halt service cuts and said he has been hired by a group of riders to sue the transit agency, in an email sent Sunday night. “SEPTA’s planned service reductions are draconian in nature and will have a severe impact on racial and ethnic minorities and low-income citizens in Southeastern Pennsylvania without any legitimate basis,” …

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but U.S. layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 16 rose by 11,000 to 235,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s slightly more than the 229,000 new applications that economists had forecast. Weekly applications …

A new federal lawsuit accuses 32 elite colleges of engaging in an “early decision conspiracy” that inflates the tuition paid by students. getty A class-action lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts accuses 32 elite colleges and universities of conspiring to inflate tuition costs through their use of the early decision admissions process. According to the complaint, …

More information is emerging regarding the incident that reportedly may have factored into the Raiders’ decision to release defensive tackle Christian Wilkins. Whether or not the information is accurate remains to be seen. Appearing Monday on Pat McAfee’s show, ESPN’s Adam Schefter said that Wilkins “playfully went to kiss a teammate on top of his head,” and that the player …

Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dade County, Florida’s southern district is the wrong venue for the …

Formal complaint filed against Vote.org by its founder  Politico Source link