Reka Gyorgy belonged in the finals of the 500-yard freestyle at last week’s NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships in Atlanta — but the NCAA refused to exercise the slightest bit of common sense when it came to male University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.
Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will head into hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, where members on the panel will ultimately decide whether to send her nomination off to a full vote in the Senate.
The Biden administration said Friday it would resume plans for oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters after an appeals court ruled to allow the use of an approximately fivefold higher “social cost of carbon” value in evaluating permits, according to reports.
South Carolina now has the means to facilitate executions by firing squad, officials said Friday, making it one of few states where it is lawful to carry out a death sentence in that manner.
New York City plans to indefinitely continue the city’s vaccine mandate for private-sector employees who work on-site and will continue to enforce an in-school mask mandate for children aged 5 and under.
A federal judge has ruled that a former Kentucky clerk violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples who were among those to whom she wouldn't issue marriage licenses - a refusal that sparked international attention and briefly landed her in jail in 2015.
