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Despite the centrality of rights in American history, it’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place. “That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent …

Video footage shot Monday by a bystander shows a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man, who can be heard pleading with the officers before passing out and later dying in police custody. “I cannot breathe! I cannot breathe!” the man, identified as George Floyd, can be heard yelling, along …

Noah Syndergaard is now using MLB players’ coronavirus salary deal to explain his stance in his legal battle with a New York City landlord who claims the Mets pitcher failed to pay any rent on the $27,000-a-month Tribeca penthouse he signed for. The 27-year-old, righty — who is being sued for the full lease value …

You gotta believe that Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard will see his landlord in court! Syndergaard tried to set the record straight on Twitter Saturday in a heated dispute with his landlord — who claims the 27-year-old athlete failed to pay any rent on the $27,000-a-month Tribeca penthouse he signed up for. The landlord is insisting …

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) called Judge Naomi Rao “a cartoon of a fake judge” after she ruled that the judge presiding over Michael Flynn’s case must explain why he hasn’t complied with the government’s request to drop the case. “Where you see Neomi Rao, you can expect a lot of Trumpy dirt to follow. …

The man who filmed the death of Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery has been arrested on murder charges, state authorities announced on Thursday. William “Roddie” Bryan, Jr., 50, was arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in connection with George and Travis McMichael, who Bryan filmed killing Arbery. Lee Merritt, an attorney for Arbery’s family, released …

Part six in a series analyzing the New York Giants. Taken individually, there is not one player on the Giants’ defensive line that scares anyone. No single big guy to keep offensive coordinators up at night, no forceful athlete to cause offensive linemen to break out into cold sweats. As a group, though, this might …

Kendall Jenner has settled a lawsuit concerning her involvement with the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival. The supermodel has agreed to pay $90,000, for promoting the fiasco music festival in a since-deleted Instagram post, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Jenner, 24, was sued in August 2019 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York …

A New York photographer has sued actress Jennifer Hudson and her company for allegedly ripping off his photo and posting it to social media. Fernando Ramales snapped the “Dreamgirls” star wearing an iridescent pink blazer and thigh-high stilettos, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. A news site bought the image and …

The Department of Justice warned California in a Tuesday letter that the state’s lockdown order “facially discriminates against religious exercise” and that Governor Gavin Newsom’s rulings “do not justify California’s actions” in banning in-person worship. Eric S. Dreiband, an assistant attorney general and the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, wrote in a …