(Headline USA) Michael Cohen can’t hold his former boss, ex-president Donald Trump, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir, an appeals court said Tuesday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in an order that it would not revive a lawsuit...
(Headline USA) North Carolina's election board finalized on Tuesday the candidates for the state's March 5 presidential primaries, leaving President Joe Biden as the lone Democrat for the job on ballots and former President Donald Trump among the Republican competitors.
The five-member State Board of Elections voted unanimously to stick with the candidate lists provided by...
(Headline USA) Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.
Gay is the second Ivy League president to resign in the...
(Headline USA) A man leaving the scene of a car wreck Tuesday shot his way into the Colorado Supreme Court building and inflicted “extensive damage” to the building before being arrested by police, authorities said, adding the incident seems unrelated to the court's recent ruling banning former President Donald Trump from the...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Two of California’s leading Pizza Hut franchises are firing all of their delivery drivers—over 1,200 Californians—ahead of the state’s minimum wage increase to $20 per hour for fast food employees in April of 2024.
Under AB 1228, passed earlier in 2023, the fast food minimum wage will...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Americans pay hundreds of dollars per year in taxes on their wireless “family plan” for their cell phones.
The Tax Foundation research shows the average American household with four phones would pay about $300 per year in taxes on a family plan costing $100 per...
(Headline USA) Just a year and a half since the July 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shook the world, another Asian leader was attacked in broad daylight, raising questions as to whether there might be some connection---and it so, who is behind them and why?
The...
(David Mastio, The Center Square) - In 2024, as the possibility of a Donald Trump/Joe Biden presidential rematch looks more and more possible, the University of California system will take on a prominent role in national politics, not for cutting edge political science research, legal theories or technology, but...
(Kevin Bessler, The Center Square) – A new animal welfare law going into effect in California Jan. 1 that mandates space requirements for pigs, cows and chickens has some livestock farmers on edge.
Proposition 12 prohibits sales in California of pork, veal and eggs from livestock whose confinement doesn't meet...
(Headline USA) An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime at a gas station and approaching the two suspects, officials said.
The police sergeant, whose name hasn’t been released, was a 22-year veteran of the Greensboro Police Department, Chief John Thompson said during...
(Headline USA) Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis.
The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) – Washington drivers may see new stickers on the fuel pump next year when filling up their gas tanks.
A state lawmaker is backing legislation in the form of House Bill 2050 that would require the Washington Department of Agriculture to amend the gas tax stickers...