An estimated 3 million commercial truck and bus drivers must electronically record their hours behind the wheel under a new government rule aimed at enforcing regulations designed to prevent fatigue. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to release the ...
Read More »VW staff began working on cheat in 2005 to crack US market
A small group of Volkswagen engineers began working as early as 2005 on emissions cheating software after they were unable to find a technical solution to U.S. emissions controls as the automaker pushed into the North American market, executives ...
Read More »Senate Democratic leader Reid: Scalia used ‘racist’ rhetoric
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Thursday blasted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for uttering what he called “racist ideas” from the bench of the nation’s highest court. Scalia on Wednesday suggested it’s possible that some black students would benefit from ...
Read More »More than half of US renters older than 40, study says
The majority of U.S. renters are now older than 40, a fundamental shift over the past decade that reflects the lasting damage of the housing crash and an aging population. This finding in a report released Wednesday by Harvard University’s ...
Read More »Quicken Loans denies rules book violated free-speech rights
Quicken Loans’ book of employee rules didn’t violate its workers’ free-speech rights because it was irrelevant to daily operations and was largely ignored by staffers, the mortgage giant said. Attorney Russell Linden told the administrative law judge hearing a case ...
Read More »Missouri student sues professor over alleged remarks
A Muslim student at the University of Missouri has filed a lawsuit alleging that a biology professor directed a slew of sexually suggestive and religiously offensive remarks at her. Fatma El-Walid claims in the lawsuit filed Nov. 30 that professor ...
Read More »States throw money at military bases to keep them open
States with large military bases are filling what is traditionally the federal government’s role by picking up the tab for construction and repairs, saying they can’t afford not to. The number of states willing to spend taxpayer money to fix ...
Read More »Same-sex adoption case challenges what it means to be parent
The 9-year-old Kentucky girl calls the woman “nommy” and bears her middle and last name. They lived in the same household until the girl was 4, and “nommy” once carried the child on her insurance plan. But they are not ...
Read More »Cities’ policies on police shooting videos inconsistent
There’s often little consistency in U.S. cities’ policies on how quickly to release videos of police officers shooting civilians under disputed circumstances, with many municipalities making decisions as they go or waiting to act until political pressure or court rulings ...
Read More »High court weighs power of state courts in bitter tax fight
The Supreme Court on Monday struggled to resolve a bitter tax dispute between a Nevada inventor and California officials that has spanned more than two decades and raises broader questions about whether a state agency can be hauled into another ...
Read More »Kansas chief justice won’t hear case involving court funding
The Kansas Supreme Court’s chief justice removed himself Monday from a lawsuit over an attempt by legislators to curb the high court’s administrative power that’s threatened the state judiciary’s entire budget. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss and the high court’s other six ...
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