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Month: February 2023

New York City directive to potentially involuntarily commit someone suffering a mental health crisis can proceed, court rules

By Celina Tebor and Emma Tucker, CNN A New York City directive allowing first responders to enforce a state law that allows them to potentially involuntarily commit people experiencing a mental health crisis can proceed after facing legal challenges by mental health advocates, a judge has ruled. The ruling, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge

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New Mexico State Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Alamogordo, NM

UPDATE – New Mexico State Police have released new information regarding the officer-involved shooting Saturday morning. At 7:09 a.m. Alamogordo Police and Otero County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the 1000 block of 16th Street to a single-vehicle crash, according to a press release from NMSP. Witnesses reported to state police that the driver got out

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Biden administration restores protections for Alaska’s Tongass forest

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Biden administration has restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sometimes called, “America’s Amazon.” The new protections, announced on January 25, repeal the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule that opened the doors for road construction and timber harvest in the forest and also restore “longstanding roadless protections to 9.37

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Republicans elevate ‘parental rights’ as top issue while looking to outflank each other heading into 2024

By Gabby Orr and Steve Contorno, CNN Republican presidential hopefuls have begun casting themselves as impassioned defenders of “parental rights,” turning schoolbooks and curricula, doctors’ offices, and sports leagues into a new political battleground as they work to distinguish themselves ahead of the 2024 GOP primary. The issue had already emerged as a major vein

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Exclusive: Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work and ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways, sources say

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Long before the leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, some Supreme Court justices often used personal email accounts for sensitive transmissions instead of secure servers set up to guard such information, among other security lapses not made public in the court’s report on the

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