Kate Seamons

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

President Trump's attempts to punish law firms for political reasons failed for the third time this month when a federal judge on Tuesday struck down his executive order sanctioning WilmerHale. And Judge Richard Leon did it with flair, notes CNBC, which writes that Leon "suffused his 73-page order with a tone of open fury rarely seen in judicial pronouncements." The Daily Beast reports there were more than two dozen exclamation points used throughout the order.

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

It's a wild footnote to the story of Yun Lu "Lucy" Li, who is serving a life sentence in Canada for murder and attempted murder of her business partners: Her mom has to pay up $1 million because Li breached her bail terms years ago. As the CBC explains, Li and husband Oliver Karafa were convicted of the February 2021 shooting in Hamilton, Ontario that killed Tyler Pratt and wounded Jordyn Romano; the pair fled to Europe but were caught in Hungary in June, reports the Hamilton Spectator.

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Within 90 minutes of posting on X that they were responding to reports of an RTC (that's road traffic collision) in Liverpool city center, Merseyside Police followed up with this on X: "We can confirm that the man arrested is a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area." Two of those words—white and British—grabbed the attention of the Washington Post, which reports British police don't typically share biographical information about suspects, particularly so early into their...

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Lucille Roberts, once a powerhouse name in women's fitness with 50+ locations in New York, is now down to a single gym: a space in Queens' Forest Hills neighborhood. The women-only gym—a relic of 1980s aerobics and hot pink branding—has a loyal membership: many have attended classes here for decades.

1 week ago | newser.com | Kate Seamons

Seventeen years ago, cardiologist Eric Topol set out to learn why some people remain healthy well into old age while others do not—and discovered that the single most powerful key to aging well may be surprisingly simple and within everyone's reach. He and his colleagues sequenced the genomes of about 1,400 people in their 80s and older who had no major chronic diseases, people they dubbed the "Wellderly," reports the New York Times.