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Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks May 13 during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, in Sioux Center, Iowa.

The new Twitter account @DeSantisJet tracks the Florida governor's air travel

The page was created by Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old who also started the popular Twitter account tracking billionaire Elon Musk's private jet.

Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court, in Buffalo, N.Y. on May 19.

Buffalo shooting suspect is indicted on a domestic terrorism charge

The suspect is charged with domestic terrorism motivated by hate and 10 counts of first-degree murder.

FTC Chairperson Lina Khan, speaking at a Senate Committee hearing in 2021. Last week, the FTC moved closer to modernizing a rule that requires funeral businesses to provide prices to consumers when they visit or call.

Funeral homes could soon have to post prices online

A 2017 NPR investigation found that many funeral businesses failed to disclose prices to consumers. The FTC may modernize the existing rule to make such information more transparent.

Odia Kaba works from home in Ypsilanti, Mich., Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Growing up in Ann Arbor, there was an expectation that Odia would attend the University of Michigan. When her application was deferred, she started at Eastern Michigan with plans to transfer to Ann Arbor her sophomore year. But she was getting daily texts from her sister, who attended U-M, describing the microaggressions she faced as a Black student on campus. Kaba stayed at Eastern Michigan and graduated with a degree in quantitative economics. Even though it's a mostly white campus, Kaba said she found pockets of diversity that helped make her comfortable.

As Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, colleges see few other ways to diversity goals

After bans on affirmative action in states from California to Florida, colleges have tried a range of strategies to achieve a diverse student body.

The freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio in February.

After the East Palestine train derailment, are railroads any safer?

Change is coming to the rail industry in the U.S. — but whether it's for the better or worse depends on who you ask.

A man sits among the wreckage caused by a series of powerful storms and at least one tornado on March 25, 2023 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

Mississippi and Alabama face a painful recovery after storms and a tornado killed 26

President Biden approved a federal disaster declaration for Mississippi. Officials said dozens were injured, while hundreds were displaced. More bad weather is expected in the Southeast into Monday.

Loretta Lynn campaigned for both Bush presidents. She's shown here with President George W. Bush in 2000 in Little Rock, Ark.

How Loretta Lynn, country music and a rural Republican tide changed U.S. politics

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan leanings of the music's most loyal fans.

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning - Part One."

'MI7' on a mission to save the summer box office

Tom Cruise dazzles with stunts in latest "Mission Impossible" outing but does it really need to be two parts?

Wine grapes sprayed with a mix of clay and water are part of an experiment to test the mixture's ability to prevent smoke taint in Davis, Calif., Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.

California researchers race to find solutions to wildfire smoke-tainted wine

Although research on smoke taint in the United States began years before 2020, it wasn’t until massive fires hit California that year that the winemaking community here began to understand the enormity of the issue.

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