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The Supreme Court's likely rulings in its new term are "looming disasters" for voting laws and LGBTQ issues — but also pose a mystery, wrote Vox legal correspondent Ian Millhiser in an analysis Monday.

The mystery, writes Millhiser, is whether the conservative-majority court will strike down President Donald Trump's controversial tariffs regimen. The writer points out that the court had struck down several Biden policies on the basis that they were of "enormous economic and political significance."

"The tariffs are clearly illegal under a doctrine the Republican justices used to halt many of President Joe Biden’s policies," he writes....

By Patrick Andres For the second time in the past five years, an LSU quarterback has won college football’s highest honor. Tigers signal-caller Jayden Daniels was awarded the Heisman Trophy on Saturday evening in New York over fellow finalists Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., Oregon quarterback Bo Nix and Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. Daniels, 22, is LSU’s third Heisman Trophy winner in program history. He joins running back Billy Cannon in 1959 and quarterback Joe Burrow in 2019. Both Cannon and Burrow helped the Tigers reach major bowl games. Daniels’s Heisman-winning......

By Patrick Andres A preseason game between the Dolphins and Jaguars in Jacksonville was called off Saturday evening after rookie Miami wide receiver Daewood Davis was injured and carted off the field. With 8:35 to play, Dolphins quarterback James Blackman attempted to find Davis over the middle but missed. Jacksonville linebacker Dequan Jackson leveled the 24-year-old rookie, drawing a flag for unnecessary roughness as Davis lied motionless on the turf. As both teams gathered around him, Davis was eventually removed from the field and the game canceled. In a tweet, Miami announced that Davis "......

By Mike McDaniel Unseeded Markéta Vondroušová of the Czech Republic made history on Saturday in the women’s Wimbledon final, winning her first grand slam title in historic fashion, 6–4, 6–4 over 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur. With the victory, Vondrousova became the lowest-ranked winner and first-ever unseeded woman to capture the Wimbledon title. The 24-year-old, who is No. 42 in the world, was the first unseeded woman to reach the final at Wimbledon in 60 years, according to The Associated Press. Vondroušová has been awaiting another opportunity to win a grand slam. She made the French Open fina......

By Nick Selbe The game was set up for an all-time classic finish … until it wasn’t. View the original article to see embedded media. Super Bowl LVII had all the makings of an instant classic finish—right up until the game’s most pivotal play turned on a questionable penalty. With the score tied at 35 apiece, the Chiefs were driving inside the Philadelphia 20-yard line facing a third-and-8. Patrick Mahomes’s pass to JuJu Smith-Schuster fell incomplete, but the referee threw a flag for defensive holding on James Bradberry, giving Kansas City the first down. That enabled the Chiefs to burn nearly......

By Andy Nesbitt The singer sure seemed to share some special personal news at Super Bowl LVII. Everybody was fired up for Rihanna’s Super Bowl LVII halftime show from the moment she was announced as the performer. The legendary singer didn’t disappoint, as she put on a flawless performance in Arizona that had everyone in awe. It also appeared that she may have used the performance to share some pretty big personal news: she’s pregnant with her second child. Rihanna used a subtle hand gesture during her first song of the night, “B---- Better Have My Money,” that appeared to tip everyone off to ......