The Latest: Clinton campaign slams Trump Supreme Court list

Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman has released a scathing statement in response to likely rival Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court picks. John Podesta says Trump's list of 11 Supreme Court candidates includes "no people of color, but does include a judge who upheld a law requiring doctors to use scare tactics to impede reproductive rights and another judge who equated homosexual sex to bestiality, pedophilia and necrophilia."

Morning News Call – India, May 19

To access the newsletter, click on the link: here FACTORS TO WATCH 10:30 am: Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu at Smart City investors conference in New Delhi. 10:30 am: Minister of State for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences Y.S. Chowdary at an event organized by ASSOCHAM in New Delhi.

Trump unveils list of potential picks for Supreme Court seat

In this May 7, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Wash. Trump is moving quickly to install political operatives in more than a dozen states, targeting Maine and Minnesota among others that traditionally favor Democrats, as the Republican White House contender lays the groundwork for an expanded electoral battlefield.

Trump unveils list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices

In this May 7, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Wash. Trump is moving quickly to install political operatives in more than a dozen states, targeting Maine and Minnesota among others that traditionally favor Democrats, as the Republican White House contender lays the groundwork for an expanded electoral battlefield.

Judge in Texas temporarily blocks Obama’s transgender rules

In this May 25, 2016, file photo, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announces Texas' lawsuit to challenge President Obama's transgender bathroom order during a news conference in Austin, Texas. A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now the Obama administration's directive to U.S. public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

UPDATE 1-Halliburton shareholder class action to settle for $100 million

The deal resolves a lawsuit in federal court in Dallas accusing Halliburton of misrepresenting its potential liability in asbestos litigation, its expected revenue from certain construction contracts and the benefits of a merger in 1998. Halliburton said the company itself would pay $54 million of the $100 million settlement, while its insurer would fund the rest.

‘He’s not understanding the magnitude of it’

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday he favored punishing women who obtain abortions if the procedure were outlawed, before retreating hours later amid criticism from his rivals for the White House. Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

Sean Hannity’s Twitter disappears; conspiracy theories ensue

Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio says he's always worked with the correct authorities in cases involving sexual assault allegations. Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio says he's always worked with the correct authorities in cases involving sexual assault allegations.

Set executions before Jan. 1, governor says

Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday that he wants the state to execute death-row inmates before one of the drugs that would be used expires in January. The governor, in Berlin to open an economic development office, spoke by telephone to reporters at the state Capitol a day after prison officials announced they acquired a new supply of vecuronium bromide.

Sen. John McCain’s illness could complicate President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick

Trump's Monday night prime-time announcement of the nomination of Kavanaugh, a former attorney and top aide to President George W. Bush, would move the high court in a more conservative direction for decades to come. The president described Kavanaugh as "one of the finest and sharpest legal minds" of the modern era and called on the U.S. Senate to move quickly to confirm him.

NC high court reviews death penalty of man who beheaded wife

North Carolina's highest court is reviewing whether justice means the death penalty for a survivor of El Salvador's blood-soaked civil war of the 1980s who strangled and then decapitated his estranged wife. The state's Supreme Court hears oral arguments Monday on whether the state can execute 41-year-old Juan Carlos Rodriguez of Winston-Salem for the 2010 murder of his wife, Maria.

Shell faces possible Dutch lawsuit over Nigerian activist’s execution

The widow of a Nigerian activist is planning to sue Royal Dutch Shell in the Dutch courts alleging the oil company was complicit in the execution of her husband by the Nigerian military in 1995, court documents filed in the United States last week show. Esther Kiobel has filed an application in New York to secure documents from Shell's U.S. lawyers, which she could use in the Dutch action.