2+ hour, 28+ min ago  (967+ words) Imagine if Sunday’s World Cup final were played under rules that blatantly favored one side over the other. Let’s say Argentina was spotted four goals against Spain. Spain could, conceivably, overcome that 4-0 deficit. But it would be awfully hard and…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (547+ words) NEW YORK — The family of a Mississippi 18-year-old who was found dead after a July 4 boat trip with friends to an island off the Gulf Coast is expected to call for greater transparency at a news conference Friday with the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (871+ words) JACKSON, Miss. — The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call this week has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatobia, Miss. “We are treating items on…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago  (193+ words) A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber plane crashed at Edwards Air Force Base in California Monday morning, leaving behind a major plume of smoke that could be seen across L.A. County’s high desert. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was injured or killed…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (163+ words) It’s a song that calls for a rocking guitar crescendo, and Mavrick Shum, Everett Wilson, Owen Wiggins and Charles Marvin understood the assignment. The Edison High Music Industry Senior Band “HLBC” celebrated with classmates Thursday at Cap Sheue Field, as…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1312+ words) California’s slow vote counting process — still underway and causing friction after last week’s primary — may be forced to change before November’s midterm elections, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether mail ballots must be received by…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (376+ words) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. By a 5-4 vote, the justices sided with Terry Pitchford, who was…...

2+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (127+ words) Discover how SoCal law schools (USC Gould, Loyola) integrate AI, new tech programs, and hybrid learning to prepare students for the evolving legal profession....

2+ mon, 17+ hour ago  (1020+ words) That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a mostly white conservative alliance dismantling the Voting Rights Act and political districts that allowed Black and other nonwhite voters to choose more of…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (388+ words) To the editor: Columnist Jonah Goldberg gives credit on a surface level to both the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which he opines “can pull in opposite directions,” thereby implying that they are…...