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Metro U.S. Supreme Court sides with Cleveland attorney’s argument in cases over post-prison supervision Published: Jun. 20, 2025, 4:57 p.m.

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Rational persuasion employs logical arguments and believable evidence. Rational persuasion requires that the target or audience make an active effort in receiving and evaluating the information.

We know the arguments in favor of doing so — namely, that Iran’s government is a malevolent force in the world and that it has made substantial progress toward acquiring a nuclear weapon.

It’s possible to be so rational that you are cut off from warmer ways of being—like the student Bazarov, in Ivan Turgenev’s “ Fathers and Sons,” who declares, “I look up to heaven only ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court in San Francisco heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Trump administration should return control of National Guard troops to California after they were ...

After nearly two months of trial — and 31 total days of testimony — Karen Read retrial jurors have begun deliberating whether she killed Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

President Trump on Friday lost his latest effort to get a retrial in the case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll. After the U.S. Court ...

The victim was outside the Franklin Gourmet Deli on E. 169th St. and Franklin Ave. in Morrisania at about 9:20 p.m. Thursday when he got into an argument with another man.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Police ruled the death of a 31-year-old El Paso man an accident after authorities said he jumped out of a moving vehicle on I-10 at Loop 375 following an argument.