Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making ...

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A previous version of this report misspelled the surname of SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son. The story has been corrected. A week after Japan’s richest man disclosed that his firm fully divested ...

ST. LOUIS – Two men are in critical condition following an overnight shooting in north St. Louis. According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, the shooting happened just ...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for damages up to $1bn (£760m), claiming the organisation made "false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements" about him in a ...

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The Supreme Court justices grappled with the legality of President Trump’s tariffs in an oral argument that stretched for almost three hours. By Abbie VanSickle and Ana Swanson Abbie VanSickle covers ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — An argument between a group of girls and an Uber driver ended with a 16-year-old injured in a shooting outside a Waffle House in Dunwoody. Police said she was in critical but ...

Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

Nate Soares defines safety as a less than 50% chance that a billion people will die. The president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Soares was approached years ago by some of the ...