Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Supreme Court will decide whether T-shirt mocking Trump as 'too small' can be trademarked

 

at 6/5/23 8:26am

The Supreme Court will rule on whether a California lawyer has a free speech right to trademark a T-shirt mocking former President Trump as 'too small.'

— Column: Ukraine's spring offensive still hasn't started. This war is likely to last a long time

 

at 6/4/23 5:00am

Ukraine's long-awaited spring offensive against Russia's invading army has been postponed so long that it has a new name.

— Abcarian: The persecution of an abortion doctor who treated a pregnant child was a shameful political farce

 

at 6/4/23 4:00am

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana OB-GYN who treated a pregnant 10-year-old from Ohio, should never have been called before a medical board in the first place.

— One party has governed Mexico's biggest state for a century. It looks as if that is about to change

 

at 6/4/23 4:00am

Sunday's election for governor of the state of Mexico could spell the end of the long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party and further cement the dominancy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's Morena party.

— Biden delivers first Oval Office speech, celebrates 'a crisis averted'

 

at 6/2/23 5:25pm

In a speech from the Oval Office, President Biden emphasized his willingness to compromise with Republicans and celebrated the passage of a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt ceiling.

— Bible removed from elementary and middle schools in Utah district

 

at 6/2/23 2:52pm

The Bible is removed from elementary and middle schools in one Utah district after a complaint that the Scriptures feature material inappropriate for younger kids.

— Making Turkey great again: How Erdogan rode to reelection on a nationalist wave

 

at 6/2/23 11:19am

Once expected to lose, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan managed to parlay nationalism to win a historic third term after 20 years in power.

— Water concerns prompt new limits on growth in Arizona

 

at 6/1/23 7:44pm

Arizona will limit development in the Phoenix area after a study found the available groundwater isn't sufficient to meet long-term water demands.

— Judge OKs 'Rust' producers' settlement with slain cinematographer's family

 

at 6/1/23 6:37pm

The confidential settlement between the family of slain "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and producers including Alec Baldwin sets up distributions to Hutchins' young son, Andros.

— Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes. Will it work?

 

at 6/1/23 5:08pm

Canada is the first country to require health warnings on individual cigarettes. The goal is to reduce smoking to less than 5% of the population.

— Debt ceiling vote splits Democratic candidates for Feinstein's Senate seat

 

at 6/1/23 3:30pm

Katie Porter and Barbara Lee opposed the bipartisan bill to suspend the debt ceiling until 2025. Adam Schiff voted for it.

— Column: The DOJ's classified documents case was already dire for Trump. Now it looks even worse

 

at 6/1/23 2:32pm

Special counsel Jack Smith's team has reportedly found that lawyer Evan Corcoran was 'waved off' searching the ex-president's office for sensitive records.

— Mexican authorities find 45 bags of body parts outside Guadalajara

 

at 6/1/23 1:35pm

Mexican authorities discovered 45 bags of human remains while searching for missing seven call center workers outside Guadalajara.

— Former Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey weighs U.S. Senate bid

 

at 6/1/23 12:17pm

Former Dodger Steve Garvey's celebrity could upend California's 2024 U.S. Senate race, if he decides to jump in.

— Supreme Court warns unions against strikes that damage an employer's property

 

at 6/1/23 10:10am

Union workers have a right to strike but not to damage a company's property, the Supreme Court rules. 'Workers are not indentured servants,' Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says in a dissent.

— $10,000 could land you that lighthouse you've always wanted

 

at 6/1/23 6:00am

The General Services Administration plans to sell four lighthouses through public auctions and give away six others.

— In Jordan, a lavish royal wedding doubles as a princely coming-out party

 

at 6/1/23 5:57am

Jordan is celebrating the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein to a Saudi architect with lavish events designed to showcase the heir to the throne.

— Nicholas Goldberg: The affirmative action calamity brewing at the Supreme Court

 

at 6/1/23 4:05am

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's 2003 prediction that affirmative action college admissions would only last 25 more years may come true if the current court has its way. That would be tragic.

— Calmes: In the debt limit showdown, both Biden and (surprise!) McCarthy are winners

 

at 5/31/23 8:38pm

The debt-ceiling fight in the GOP House ended in rare bipartisanship, with wins and losses on both sides. But the president won measurably more.

— House approves bipartisan deal to suspend debt limit, reducing fear of U.S. default

 

at 5/31/23 7:28pm

The House of Representatives passed President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy's deal to suspend the federal debt ceiling through 2024.

— NASA's experts talk UAPs ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects

 

at 5/31/23 11:57am

NASA is holding its first public meeting on UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings, or unidentified aerial phenomena.

As of 6/5/23 12:05pm. Last new 6/5/23 10:59am.