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The one-two punch of strong earnings and tame inflation helped propel the S & P 500 to a positive week — despite the latest tariff news on Friday putting a slight damper on the action. The broad index added 0.59% for the week led by technology, utilities and industrials, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq outperformed, jumping 1.51%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate ‘s implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ruled Friday. The order by Nashville Chancellor Russell Perkins comes ahead of the Aug. 5 execution of Byron Black. Black’s attorneys have said that the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator could …

Judge blocks WA requirement for priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession  Washington State Standard Catholic bishops call mandatory reporting law ‘brazen act of religious discrimination’  Fox News Trump administration intervenes to help block law requiring priests to report child abuse revealed in confessions  The Independent Judge grants injunction against Washington law requiring clergy to report child abuse  KING5.com WA state law requiring …

A federal judge on Friday dismissed President Donald Trump‘s nearly $50 million lawsuit against the journalist Bob Woodward for publishing tapes from interviews for his 2020 best-seller “Rage” as an audiobook. The decision by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in Manhattan is a victory for Woodward, his publisher Simon & Schuster and its former owner Paramount Global. Woodward interviewed Trump …

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking Washington Senate Bill 5375, which requires members of the clergy to report known child abuse, even if it’s revealed during Confession, from being enforced. The court ruled that the state was “unable to explain why the language in § 1(b) of the bill doubled down on singling out clergy.” Last month, the …

CNN  —  President Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publishing house Simon & Schuster was dismissed by a federal judge on Friday, the same day that Trump filed a new and unrelated suit against the Wall Street Journal. US District Judge Paul Gardephe of the Southern District of New York gave Trump’s legal team a month to file …

Aaron Judge gets dressed at a locker right next to a getaway exit, which serves its purpose in the Bronx. Judge adores baseball’s daily rituals with this sole exception: pregame media access in the clubhouse. The big man has made it known he could live without that one. Judge believes the hours before that first pitch are meant for serious …

A federal judge has restored a Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission, ruling that President Donald Trump illegally fired her earlier this year in his efforts to exert control over independent agencies across the government. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled late Thursday that federal law protects FTC commissioners from being removed by the president without cause, citing a key …

US judge weighs putting new block on Trump’s birthright citizenship order  Reuters Judge who blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order wants to do so again  CNN Trump’s birthright citizenship order remains blocked as lawsuits march on after Supreme Court ruling  The Washington Post I Took My Birthright Citizenship for Granted  Christianity Today Federal judge says she would block Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide  AP News Source …

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge lifted a sweeping gag order Thursday in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case. Bryan Kohberger avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students at a rental home near campus in 2022. A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press had asked …