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LONDON (AP) — Britain has sparked a post-Brexit spat with the European Union by declining to grant the bloc’s first-ever ambassador to the country full diplomatic status. Joao Vale de Almeida is the 27-nation EU’s envoy to the U.K., which left the bloc last year. The EU says he should be given the same status as a national ambassador, like the rest of the bloc's 143 envoys around the world. But the British government says the EU is an...

One of Trump’s own appointees sided with his fellow appellate judges in shutting down the outgoing president’s Affordable Clean Energy rule. A coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo., in July 2018. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — On the last full day of his presidency, Donald Trump’s yearslong effort to shut down Obama-era clean air protections targeting power plants went up in smoke in the D.C. Circuit. Adding salt to the wound, the federal appeals court’s 182-page opinion released Tuesday was unsigned, written by a mostly una...

Your Tuesday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News Top eight stories for today including California fired back on the Trump administration’s eleventh-hour attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act before the president leaves office; A slew of nominees to critical positions in Joe Biden’s Cabinet came before Congress; Kansas asked a 10th Circuit panel to preserve a law specifically targeting individuals who lie to gain access to animal processing plants for undercover investigations, and more. Sign up for the CNS Top Eight, a roundup of the day’s top stories delivered direct...

Jaelyn Kennedy Let me first give you the definition of racism. Racism is prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized. Why did I give you that definition, you may ask? To have a conversation about race in America and America’s progress when it comes to race, we must have a clear understanding of the racism that is very fluent and prevalent in America. When we look at America’s history, the progress we see when it comes down to race since ...

New York City renters owe more than $1 billion in back rent according to a new survey.