House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a hard line Thursday against funding President Donald Trump’s long-stalled border wall, a move that could gridlock Capitol Hill negotiations that just got underway. “There’s not going to be any wall money in the legislation,” ...
Read More »New rulings on medical marijuana use go against employers
Connecticut health-care worker Katelin Noffsinger told a potential employer that she took medical marijuana to deal with the effects of a car accident, although when a drug test came back positive, the nursing home rescinded her job offer anyway. A ...
Read More »Republican law limiting labor powers defeated in Missouri
The steady march of new right-to-work laws in Republican-led states hit a wall in Missouri, where voters resoundingly rejected a measure that could have weakened union finances after national and local labor groups poured millions of dollars into the campaign ...
Read More »US brands suffer collateral damage in Chinese corporate war
The rivalry is so notorious it’s been called the “great cat-and-dog war.” On one side towers Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China’s e-commerce market leader, embodied by the black cat mascot of its Tmall platform. On the other is JD.com Inc., ...
Read More »Indictments highlight lax rules on water parks
Ken Martin remembers a Travel Channel episode about the world’s tallest waterslide. The Richmond, Virginia-based amusement-park safety expert said he was horrified that test sandbags flew off the ride and that nylon straps with Velcro restrained multiple riders on rafts ...
Read More »Texas bomber’s change in tactics could hint at future
The bombs were left on porches, then by the side of the road, then at a FedEx facility. The victims were black, then Hispanic, then white. The targets were in different parts of Austin, Texas, and then in San Antonio. ...
Read More »Tiny houses are trendy, unless they go up next door
As he tows a 96-square-foot house around Des Moines, Joe Stevens is overwhelmed by the intense, sometimes tearful support he receives from churches, schools and service groups for his plan to use the trendy little structures to help homeless people. ...
Read More »Appeals court taking foie gras off the menu in California
A federal appeals court reinstated California’s ban on foie gras Friday, finding that a state law preventing sales of the luxury liver pate made by force-feeding ducks and geese was not pre-empted by federal authority to regulate poultry products. The ...
Read More »Judge: Racism behind Arizona ban on Mexican-American studies
Racism was behind an Arizona ban on ethnic studies that shuttered a popular Mexican-American Studies program, a federal judge said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima found that the state enacted the ban with discriminatory intent. He had previously ...
Read More »Secret hearings held in ex-Oklahoma City cop’s rape case
The high-profile case of a former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of raping women while on duty focused the public’s attention on the problem of sexual misconduct on the force, but his appeal raising questions about DNA evidence is playing ...
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