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Trump loses Supreme Court appeal to block hush-money sentencing
Ximena Bustillo A divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request to stop his sentencing in the New York hush-money case, scheduled for Friday. The court, in a rationale for its order Thursday, said Trump could address his issues with the verdict through appeals, and that “the burden that sentencing will impose on the…
Biden makes an 11th-hour move to block coastal oil drilling
Camila Domonoske President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority. It’s a move designed to help cement his climate legacy, and one the incoming Trump administration is expected to challenge.…