Republicans embarrassed President Barack Obama by winning veto-proof House approval of legislation blocking Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the U.S., but from here the effort may take a different turn in Congress. Six days after the Paris attacks, the House ...
Read More »Lenders taking more borrowers to court over student loans
Fall behind on your student loans these days and you could end up getting more than hectoring phone calls and threatening letters. Some lenders are taking more people to court, attorneys say. The number of lawsuits filed over delinquent student ...
Read More »In America’s Little Syria, a divide on accepting refugees
A few days ago, a pastor asked Syrian-born restaurant owner Marie Jarrah to donate food to a welcoming event for recently arrived Syrian refugees. Jarrah, who said she regularly helps people in need, declined. Like many of Allentown, Pennsylvania’s establishment ...
Read More »Both Kansas Cities raise age to buy tobacco products to 21
Young Kansas City smokers will have to drive a bit farther to buy their cigarettes, e-cigarettes or vapor products under an ordinance that’s getting widespread support in the metropolitan area. On the same day as the American Cancer Society’s annual ...
Read More »Suit challenges Missouri law limiting municipal court fines
A dozen St. Louis-area municipalities are suing the state in hopes of halting a new law limiting the ability by Missouri cities to profit from traffic tickets and court fines. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Cole County, challenges the 4-month-old ...
Read More »Ex-Subway pitchman Fogle gets more than 15 years in prison
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes, with the judge describing his “perversion and lawlessness” as “extreme.” Judge Tanya Walton ...
Read More »Legal experts urge caution as tribes enter pot business
Tribes across the U.S. are finding marijuana is risky business nearly a year after a Justice Department policy indicated they could grow and sell pot under the same guidelines as states. Federal raids on tribal cannabis operations in California followed ...
Read More »Genetically modified salmon OK’d for human consumption in US
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States. The Obama administration had stalled in approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years amid ...
Read More »St. Louis Zoo agrees to buy Grant’s Farm; heir wants it, too
The St. Louis Zoo wants to buy the sprawling animal park Grant’s Farm from the heirs of August Busch Jr. for about $30 million, but one son of the beer baron is making his own offer to keep it in ...
Read More »NFL set to defend $1B concussion settlement amid appeals
The NFL will ask a U.S. appeals court to uphold a potential $1 billion plan to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by former players. Critics appealing the settlement on Thursday complain it protects some retirees at the expense of ...
Read More »Senator pushing medical exam bill to benefit pilots like him
Sen. Jim Inhofe, an 81-year-old avid pilot who had quadruple heart bypass surgery two years ago, is trying to loosen medical exam requirements so that private pilots like him don’t have to make so many doctors’ visits to show they ...
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