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Washington — Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who was a steady member of the high court’s liberal wing during his tenure despite being appointed by a Republican president, died Thursday. He was 85.The Supreme Court said Souter “died peacefully” at his home.”Justice David Souter served our court with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. “After retiring to his beloved New Hampshire in 2009, he continued to render significant service to our branch by sitting regularly on the Court of…

The U.S.-Canada border, as seen in this satellite map, mostly runs along the 49th parallel — and wasn’t chosen at random. Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images When President Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office, conversation turned not only to the relationship between the two countries, but to the border itself. Echoing a phrase he has used in recent months, Trump described the U.S.-Canada border as an “artificially drawn line” — and suggested it should be erased. “Somebody drew that line many years…

“Everyone who knew him knew that he was a sophisticated, well-read, and urbane man, hardly a hayseed from New Hampshire,” Professor Tushnet said, as he had some reason to know; his daughter, Rebecca, spent a year as one of the justice’s law clerks.Justice Souter inspired fierce, almost protective, affection and loyalty from his friends and former clerks. Academic appraisals were less generous. His name was on so few significant opinions and his profile at the court was so low that after his first few years, legal academia essentially stopped paying attention to him. That was most likely a source of…

What’s at stake for U.S., China trade talks What’s at stake for U.S., China trade talks 03:48 President Trump signaled Friday that the U.S. may be open to lowering tariffs on China.”80% Tariff on China seems right!” he wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. “Up to Scott B.”The conciliatory tone of Mr. Trump’s post comes as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are scheduled to meet with Chinese negotiators this weekend in Switzerland.The U.S. has imposed tariffs of 145% on imports from China, which retaliated with a 125% levy on American goods. Mr. Trump on…

Buenos Aires—The Basilica de San José de Flores didn’t appear in most guidebooks to Argentina prior to 2013. Located in a working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, its current structure was completed in 1883 by the Italian architects Emilio Lombardo and Benito Panuzzi, just off Plaza General Pueyrredón. Although its interior is ornate, with ubiquitous gold leaf, the church is a modest structure, with a small apse and sanctuary, and several dozen rows of well-worn pews stretching across its nave.In the years since Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope, however, the basilica has become a minor tourist attraction. It was here that…

In 2018, an anonymous tip led the authorities in California to Eric Uller, who for decades had volunteered at an after-school program associated with the Santa Monica Police Department. An investigation revealed Mr. Uller, 50, had molested at least four boys on the city’s watch.Allegations from dozens of others soon emerged, dating to the 1980s and 1990s. Weeks after his arrest, Mr. Uller hanged himself in his apartment on the day he was scheduled to appear in court.Seven years later, Santa Monica is still paying for his crimes. At last count, the bill had reached nearly $230 million.That’s how much…

Washington —  A federal judge is holding a bail hearing Friday for Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts doctoral candidate who was detained by immigration authorities after the Trump administration revoked her student visa.Ozturk is currently detained at an immigration facility in Basile, Louisiana, where she was transferred after she was taken into custody in Massachusetts in March. The bail hearing in her challenge to her confinement comes after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration had until May 14 to comply with a district court’s order to transfer Ozturk to immigration custody in Vermont.Ozturk will appear remotely from…

For months, Republicans have been trying to figure out how to reduce Medicaid spending to help enact President Trump’s domestic agenda. But their list of possible cuts is shrinking.House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that major cuts to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion were off the table. Now, the largest cut left among their whittled-down options would disproportionately hurt states that supported Mr. Trump in the 2024 election.Republicans have also been studying several other Medicaid changes for their budget bill, and a final package will probably include some of the smaller adjustments. But they have considered only two major…

The last several months for American Catholics have been a story about the ascent of the Catholic right. In January, a parade of right-wing Catholic power began streaming into President Trump’s remade Washington. Just weeks later came the hospitalization and decline of Pope Francis, who often seemed to stand alone in offering a different vision of global Christian influence.Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic in the new conservative style, was one of the last people to see Pope Francis alive, a brief meeting between representatives of two contrasting visions for Catholic values in the world.Then came the stunning arrival on…

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