As Gov. Kathy Hochul doubles down on her proposal to further roll back the landmark 2019 bail reforms as part of the state budget, law professors and public defenders are ringing the alarm bells over ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downgraded the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened on Oct. 24, 2024. (Renee Bodine/USFWS) (CN) — The U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday ...

A new definition for the astronomical term 'planet' would apply to all alien worlds we've discovered so far, but would still leave Pluto off the list. A new and improved definition for the term ...

Acting Chair Mark Uyeda said he’s directed the SEC to re-evaluate the agency’s proposal expanding the definition of an “exchange” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The proposal, issued in ...

The SEC on Friday voted to reopen the comment period on a proposal that would expand the definition of "exchange" under Rule 3b-16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The proposal, unveiled in ...

Update Aug. 17: Astronomers Sharply Divided on New Planet Definition The tally of planets in our solar system would jump instantly to a dozen under a highly controversial new definition proposed by ...

The Trump administration is soon expected to propose a plan that would cap loans for a number of advanced degrees—including master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing—and it’s gone viral on social media ...

“It seems perverse to me that we would be encouraging centralization,” said SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce prior to a vote on the proposal. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — There's new hope for people who still believe that Pluto is a planet more than a decade after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reclassified the object as a dwarf ...

Harvard’s graduate student union requested that the University guarantee academic freedom protections for graduate students’ teaching and research pursuits in a new contract proposal on Thursday, ...