Longstanding education funding litigation is returning to North Carolina’s highest court hardly a year after a majority of justices — all Democrats — agreed that taxpayer money could be moved to spend on addressing schooling inequities statewide without the express approval of legislators. What’s apparently changed to permit Thursday’s scheduled oral arguments at the state Supreme Court is its composition. A few days after the court’s milestone 2022...

The Justice Department named its first-ever official focused on artificial intelligence (AI) on Thursday in anticipation of the rapidly evolving technology’s impact on the criminal justice system.  Jonathan Mayer, a professor at Princeton University who focuses on the “intersection of technology and law, with emphasis on national security, criminal procedure, consumer privacy, network management, and online speech,” according to his online biography, was selected to serve as the...