
The Guardian - 4 hours 9 min ago
NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in Mississippi Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants from its enormous datacenters, which house its supercomputers and run the chatbot Grok. The new pending suit alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act and was filed Friday by the storied civil rights group the NAACP. The group's 40-page notice of...

Esquire - 5 hours 13 min ago
The university better unlimber its endowment and tell the president to stuff it.

Chicago Tribune - 7 hours 16 min ago
Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges Friday, following a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor.

Newser - 7 hours 45 min ago
Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges Friday, a case arising from a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor. Four others also pleaded not guilty in the case. Roughly two dozen protesters...

US Weekly - 8 hours 6 min ago
UPDATE — 2/13/26, 3:20 p.m. ET: Former CNN host Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges. The journalist, 59, appeared in court in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday, February 13, to formally refute charges of conspiracy against the rights of religious freedom at a place of worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of the right of religious freedom at a place of worship, per NBC News . Lemon was originally arrested on January 29 while covering...

The Hill - 8 hours 13 min ago
Former television host and media personality Don Lemon on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges he faces in connection with his coverage of an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota last month. Lemon, who attended the Jan. 18 protest and has argued he was there as a journalist covering the demonstration, faces federal civil rights charges under the Freedom...

The Guardian - 8 hours 41 min ago
Former CNN anchor said he was working as a journalist when he was arrested at protest during church service Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges on Friday, following a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official is a pastor. Four others also pleaded not guilty in the case. Lemon did not comment to reporters as he entered the courthouse accompanied by his attorney Joe Thompson. Roughly...

Daily Signal - 10 hours 7 min ago
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is suing Harvard, accusing the university of unlawfully withholding admissions data necessary to help the government determine if... Read More The post Harvard Sued for Stonewalling on Race-Based Admissions appeared first on The Daily Signal .

NY Post - 11 hours 48 min ago
The US Supreme Court nearly three years ago found that Harvard had run afoul of federal civil rights law in its undergraduate admissions.

The Hill - 14 hours 57 min ago
There's a reason for what we are seeing in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the U.S. It's the result of the Trump administration's belief that illegal immigrants don't have the same constitutional rights as the rest of us. As President Trump himself put it, "If people come into our country illegally there's a different standard." The general counsel of the Department of...

New York Times - 18 hours 53 min ago
Demonstrators in Greenville, Miss., in 1964 after the disappearance of three civil rights workers, who were later found dead.