Law

News brief: vaccine-or-test ruling, Jan. 6 charges, Novak Djokovic

6:38am January 14, 2022

Supreme Court delivers two key decisions on vaccine rules. The Oath Keepers leader is charged with conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot. Australia's revokes tennis star Novak Djokovic's visa again.

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The leader of the Oath Keepers is charged with conspiracy for Jan. 6 riot

5:17am January 14, 2022

The federal government has charged Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, and 10 others with seditious conspiracy in the most serious case to emerge from its probe into the Capitol riot.

Sirhan Sirhan is seen arriving for a parole hearing in August 2021 in San Diego. On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked the parole recommendation for Sirhan, who killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

California governor denies RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan parole

7:38pm January 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

The parole panel's recommendation to release Sirhan, 77, in August was based in part on new California laws since he was last denied parole in 2016 — the 15th time he'd lost his bid for release.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a 2017 rally outside the White House.

Politics & Government

Oath Keepers leader arrested, charged with seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 riot

7:04pm January 13, 2022

The federal government has charged Stewart Rhodes and 10 others with seditious conspiracy in the most serious case to emerge from its investigation into the Capitol riot.

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The Supreme Court's vote to invalidate the vaccine-or-test regulation was 6 to 3, along ideological lines.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court blocks Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate for large private companies

6:32pm January 13, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

But the court upheld a separate mandate for almost all employees at hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that receive federal funds.

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How the health care worker vaccine mandate will work, with SCOTUS' go-ahead

6:18pm January 13, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the Supreme Court ruling on the vaccine mandate for health care workers.

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Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a vaccine mandate for many health care workers

5:10pm January 13, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

Employers won't have to require their workers to get the COVID vaccine or get regularly tested. The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's push to get more of the private sector vaccinated.

The movie Rust was being filmed at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., where the fatal shooting took place in October.

The 'Rust' armorer is suing the film's ammo supplier over the deadly, on-set shooting

2:19pm January 13, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer and key props assistant on the movie set, said in the complaint that she bought live ammunition she believed to be dummy rounds.

Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attends the ceremonial funeral procession of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle in April 2021.

Prince Andrew is stripped of his royal patronages and military titles

2:19pm January 13, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The move comes with Queen Elizabeth II's "approval and agreement," Buckingham Palace said. The announcement comes one day after Prince Andrew lost his bid to quash a sex-abuse lawsuit.

Amtrak reached a settlement after the Justice Department said the company failed to make stations in its intercity rail transportation system accessible, including to wheelchair users.

National

Amtrak paid $2 million to travelers with disabilities in a discrimination settlement

12:47pm January 13, 2022

by Nell Clark

The money is part of a settlement agreed to in 2020 after the Justice Department found that Amtrak violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to meet accessibility standards.