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Court Blocks Washington Requirement that Clergy Report Child Abuse, Even Learned from ConfessionsFrom today’s opinion by Judge David G. Estudillo (W.D. Wash.) in Etienne v. Ferguson: At present, Washington clergy who learn of child abuse or neglect while acting within their official supervisory capacity are required to report such abuse to public authorities. Only information obtained “as a result of a privileged communication” is exempted from this mandatory reporting requirement. Effective July 27, 2025, however, Washington law [SB 5375] will require clergy to report child abuse or neglect regardless of how they learn about such information…. The Court concludes Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their Free Exercise Clause challenge …. There is no question that SB 5375 burdens Plaintiffs’ free exercise of religion. In situations where Plaintiffs hear confessions related to child abuse or neglect, SB 5375 places them in the position of either complying with…

Court orders Bolsonaro to wear ankle tag and puts him under curfewA court in Brazil also bars the ex-president from using social media and put him under 24-hour surveillance. …[TheTopNews] Read More.BBC NEWS – World | World News & EventsFri, July 18, 20258 hours ago

American BloodshedYou would be forgiven for not knowing which lesson, exactly, Americans ought to take from the bloody morning of September 13, 1859. On that day, in the mouth of a clearing by Lake Merced, in the hills of San Francisco, two men decided to settle an argument the old-fashioned way: with a pair of handcrafted .58-caliber pistols and a mutual death wish.Theirs wasn’t the most famous duel in American history. But David Terry’s murder of his friend turned rival David Broderick that California morning is, I would argue, America’s second-most-famous duel, and possibly its most consequential.Broderick and Terry had originally traveled westward in search of gold—Broderick from his hometown of Washington, D.C., and Terry by way of Russellville, Kentucky. Instead they found careers in public service, which is how they crossed paths: Broderick as a U.S. senator, Terry as the chief justice of the California Supreme Court. They were…

Newspaper publisher to pay $9.5 million to subscribersLee Enterprises accused of digital privacy violations By Truman Lewis of ConsumerAffairs July 18, 2025 Lee agrees to pay $9.5 million in a privacy settlement with subscribers. Now faces three class-action lawsuits from employees over a 2025 data breach. Lawsuits allege negligence, breach of contract, and failure to disclose crucial details. Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based media company that owns hundreds of newspapers across 25 states, including flagship titles like the Quad-City Times and Omaha World-Herald, is at the center of a growing legal crisis. The company has agreed to a $9.5 million settlement with subscribers alleging digital privacy violations and is now facing three federal lawsuits brought by employees over a massive data breach earlier this year. Lee reached the $9.5 million settlement Lee with nearly 1.53 million subscribers earlier this year. The lawsuit accused the company of embedding tracking technology in… …[TheTopNews]…

Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for libelLawsuit filed in Miami federal court comes after president threatened to sue over Jeffrey Epstein letter reportDonald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show.A copy of the complaint was not immediately available. The case was filed in Miami federal court. Continue reading… …[TheTopNews] Read More.THE GUARDIAN – General | World News & EventsFri, July 18, 20252 hours ago

Judge Grants RFE/RL Injunction in Funding SuitHeadquarters of RFE/RL in Prague, Czech Republic. (By Mir Wais, from RFE/RL website) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, continuing to fight for its existence, welcomed a ruling today by a federal district court judge. It said Judge Royce Lamberth granted RFE/RL’s request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for Global Media. He ordered USAGM to disburse the rest of the agency’s congressionally appropriated funds for fiscal 2025. RFE/RL said Lamberth wrote that it was unprecedented for an agency to demand that new terms govern its working relationship with a grantee entity and then stop responding, “particularly when the agency is statutorily obligated to grant yearly congressional appropriations to that specific entity by name.” He cited USAGM’s “flagrant disregard for its funding responsibilities.” President/CEO Stephen Capus welcomed the ruling. “Time and again, the court has ruled in our favor on the…