The US Supreme Court has left in place a lower court decision ruling that a North Carolina school cannot require its female students to wear skirts. A US federal court found last year that the school had violated the constitutional rights of its female pupils with its uniform rules. The...
A Florida man and his teenage stepson died after hiking during extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in Texas, officials said. The boy fell ill along the trail and lost consciousness, and his stepfather was killed in a car accident as he tried to find help, authorities said. The exact...
The US Supreme Court has opened the door to the creation of a new majority-black district in the state of Louisiana in a closely watched voting rights case. The top court lifted a hold on a lower court case that could result in Louisiana redrawing its electoral map. Lower courts had ruled...
John Goodenough, the world’s oldest Nobel Prize winner who played a crucial role in developing the lithium-ion battery, has died at the age of 100. He passed away on Sunday, according to the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an engineering professor...
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana political remap case, increasing the likelihood that the Republican-dominated state will have to redraw boundary lines to create a second mostly Black congressional district. For more than a year, there has been a legal battle...
