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Arrest made in 2022 migrant smuggling boat capsizing that killed 39 peopleOn Jan. 25, 2022, a Jacksonville-based tugboat crew returning from a job in Puerto Rico found an overturned 25-foot boat with a man sitting on the hull floating about 45 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet. The crew rescued 22-year-old Juan Esteban Montoya, who later told federal agents he and his 18-year-old sister were among 40 people on the boat when its…
Supreme Court Justices Skeptical of Big Oil Bid to 'Escape Trial for Climate Deception'The US Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of efforts by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to prevent a Colorado climate liability lawsuit from going to trial, with justices across the ideological spectrum questioning the fossil fuel companies’ arguments for shutting down the case before evidence of their alleged deception can be heard. The case —…
Harvard Has No Entitlement to Federal Billions, Federal Lawyer Tells Appeals CourtBOSTON—A federal judge overstepped her authority when she ordered the federal government to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants to Harvard that the Trump administration had terminated, a government lawyer told a panel of appellate judges Monday. "There’s no First Amendment right to money," the Justice Department lawyer, Michael…