A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars.
Katherine Lee
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‘Lighting a fuse’: Amazon vote may spark more union efforts
What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama could have major implications not just for the country’s second-largest employer but the labor movement at large.
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Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees
The president’s list would put three Black women on federal courts of appeals, a pathway to the Supreme Court.
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Biden urges state mask mandates as CDC director warns of ‘impending doom’
After CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky makes an impassioned plea to Americans not to let their guard down, President Biden appeals to state and local leaders to reinstate mask-wearing requirements if they have eased them.
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Witness in ex-officer’s trial recounts seeing George Floyd ‘slowly fade away’
Prosecutors at the trial of Derek Chauvin played a video showing the white former Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds as the Black man pleaded for his life and went limp.
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Passenger vehicle travel rebounding to pre-pandemic levels
Americans may be rounding a corner in their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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WHO report says animals likely source of COVID
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says 17 experts from seven different U.S. government organizations will be reviewing the findings.
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NASA gives the all clear: Earth safe from menacing asteroid for 100 years
First detected in 2004, Apophis is now officially off NASA’s asteroid ‘risk list.’
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Harvard punishes professor who gave Jeffrey Epstein an office on campus
Martin Nowak will be barred from starting new research or advising students for at least two years.
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Democrats seek government records in deadly Capitol riot probe
Hopes for a bipartisan, independent commission to study the attack are fading as Republicans have rejected the proposal.