Amber Alert explanation on Michigan’s 20th anniversary of first alert
Amber Alerts were started after Texas native Amber Hagerman, 9, went missing on Jan. 13, 1996, and was found murdered five days later. According to the Michigan State Police, local broadcasters teamed up with law enforcement to develop a warning system to help find abducted children which led to the Amber Alert system.
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Supreme Court asks Congress for more security money due to threats
With a new annual budget request posted Thursday, the Supreme Court told Congress that it needs nearly $6 million in new security funding to expand the protection justices receive following threats to the court last summer.
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'It's not working': Michigan House OKs repeal of third grade reading retention law
The Michigan House voted Tuesday to repeal a 2016 law that requires students to be reading at grade level before being allowed to advance to the fourth grade.
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After completing 95 multiple choice questions and 12 essay questions, the bot performed on average at the level of a C+ student, achieving a low but passing grade in all four courses.
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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson Split With the Court’s Liberals in a 5–4 Decision
Jackson was the only justice to join a key section of Gorsuch’s opinion endorsing special solicitude for federal defendants’ due process rights. It points toward a skepticism of government power that should cheer civil libertarians across the political spectrum.
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Supreme Court Tackles Fraud Among Business Partners, Not Spouses
In upholding the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit opinion, the high court said that liability can be held against a partner of a wrongdoer. The justices said they wanted to clear up lower court “confusion” on the meaning of the bankruptcy code’s exception to discharging debts obtained by actual fraud.
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Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.
A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Gonzalez v. Google, challenges this law—namely whether tech companies are liable for the material posted on their platforms.
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U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance
Turning away the Wikimedia Foundation's appeal, the justices left in place a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit based on the government's assertion of what is called the state secrets privilege, a legal doctrine that can shut down litigation if disclosure of certain information would damage U.S. national security.
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The Biggest Mistakes People Make With Their Wills
Everybody knows they should have a will, and not having one can leave heirs with a big mess. But just having a will isn’t enough. Big mistakes are common
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FTX Customers Sue Financiers for Giving Bankrupt Crypto Exchange an 'Air of Legitimacy'
The customers said the defendants lent FTX an "air of legitimacy" by vouching that they had examined its operations--with a Sequoia executive once saying "we did our homework"--and found them "safe and secure" for cryptocurrency investors.
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