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BBC Verify has looked at what impact further devolution could be expected to have on the UK.

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A Kentucky church is under fire after performing a mock execution by firing squad in front of kids during bible school. The disturbing viral video shows children at Mount Olivet Baptist Church chanting, “Take him out! Blow him up!” as men dressed…

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Taylor Swift loves her some calla lilies, but she didn’t buy up every single calla lily in New York City ahead of her upcoming wedding event at Madison Square Garden … despite claims to the contrary. TMZ reached out to several well-known florists…

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President Donald Trump expressed surprise after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review his appeal in a civil case involving E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in damages after she accused him of sexual assault.

In 2023, a federal jury in New York decided in favor of Carroll, who said Trump had assaulted her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman and later defamed her. Carroll wrote about the experience in a 2019 New York magazine article.

“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to “review” a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The rejection by the nation’s highest court means the end of the legal road for Trump. Still, he said that he “will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement: “Today’s Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions.”

In his post, Trump lamented the New York law, called the Adult Survivors Act, that paved the way for Carroll’s lawsuit. The law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2022, created a onetime, one-year window beginning six months after it was signed into law for adult victims of sexual violence to file civil lawsuits, regardless of whether the standard statute of limitations had expired. Trump called it “tailormade” and an injustice.

As is typical, the Supreme Court did not explain why it rejected Trump’s appeal request.

Trump is also expected to petition the justices to review another defamation case against him, in which Carroll won an $83.3 million award.

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The U.S. military has identified the Marine who was lost at sea off the coast of Southern California as Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco, 21, of Minnesota. Canseco was declared deceased on Saturday after he was reported missing from amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage Thursday, “prompting an extensive search and rescue operation,” according to…

A dermatologist explains the benefits of nail oiling, as well as which types work best and how often you should apply them.

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El jugador de la selección alemana celebró el comienzo de la fase de eliminación directa, confesó que todo el equipo está alegre pero muy concentrado y puntualizó que no quieren subestimar a Paraguay porque es un equipo con mucha intensidad.

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The committee had been alerted by a fellow member of Congress of allegations of campaign finance violations and potential sexual misconduct, but said it found no evidence of wrongdoing.

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Nara Smith is among the people who love this easy hack that transforms oatmeal into a high-protein meal.

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The Supreme Court on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s power to fire members of independent federal agencies and overturned a 1935 precedent that had protected agency independence. At the same time, in a separate case, the court stopped Trump from immediately firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

In the first case, Trump v. Slaughter, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court’s GOP-appointed majority that removal protections for Federal Trade Commission members violate the Constitution’s separation of powers, over dissent from the court’s Democratic appointees that said the ruling “upends rather than upholds the separation of powers.”

The ruling stemmed from Trump’s attempt to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, without cause. The ruling carries implications for many other agencies across the government. 

The case questioned the vitality of the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor precedent, which long protected agency independence and which the administration urged the justices to overturn. While doubting whether there had been anything left of the precedent at this point, Roberts wrote Monday, “If anything more is left of Humphrey’s, we overrule it.”

Slaughter told MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez after the ruling that she was “very worried about a future where presidents like President Trump can wield this enormous grant of executive power” that the court “just handed to him in order to reward his friends and punish his enemies, and do so with impunity.”

The Slaughter case also raised questions about Trump’s power to fire members of the Federal Reserve, which was at issue in Cook’s separate case. While broadly backing Trump’s firing power over other agencies, the GOP-appointed majority had been strongly signaling ahead of Monday that it would grant greater protections to the central bank’s independence, even as the court’s Democratic appointees had criticized the majority’s reasoning behind singling out the Federal Reserve for saving.

As expected in the separate ruling on Monday, the court rejected Trump’s emergency application to fire Cook.

Trump said he had cause to remove her, citing an unproven mortgage fraud claim. The appeal centered on how the courts should scrutinize the president’s attempt to fire her from the board before her Senate-confirmed term expires. At the heart of the dispute was the Federal Reserve Act’s provision that presidents can remove governors “for cause,” a term that isn’t defined in the law.

When he argued to the justices on Trump’s behalf, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer conceded that the president can’t remove Cook over a policy disagreement. But he insisted that the president can remove her over the unproven fraud claim and that courts can’t even review Trump’s rationale for wanting to remove her. At the January hearing, Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh said that if there’s no process or judicial review required, “that would weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve.”

Kavanaugh and the court’s three Democratic appointees joined Roberts’ opinion in the Cook case on Monday. Roberts wrote that Congress limited the president’s power to remove Federal Reserve governors for good reason and that any change in that arrangement “must come from Congress, not the courts.”

He wrote that accepting the government’s position “would allow the President to remove a member of the Federal Reserve at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check after. That would turn for-cause protection into little more than at-will employment.”

Yet Roberts was careful to clarify that the “ultimate question” of whether Trump can remove Cook for cause depends partly on the underlying facts, which the court didn’t address on Monday because those facts “have yet to be found or analyzed under the relevant legal standards.”

Allison Detzel contributed reporting.

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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected three proposed ballot measures supported by Democrats that were designed to pave the way for a new congressional map ahead of the 2028 election.

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Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) in a Sunday post said she had been hospitalized after a blood clot. Hayes said she was discharged on Sunday after two days at the hospital. “A health update from me. Listen to your body, and seek care if you’re not feeling well. Thank you to all the Dr’s, nurses, technicians…