After years of court hearings, investigations, open rescues, and protests, the notorious beagle breeding and research facility Ridglan Farms has finally agreed to release 1,500 dogs to rescue organizations. This is certainly a win for animals, but the era of animal testing is far from over, particularly because the federal government enables it. While the […]
Australian lawmakers are considering a new scheme to regulate and to extract revenue from American technology. If enacted, it would impose a 2.25% levy on the Australian revenues of three major platforms unless they strike commercial deals with local news publishers, with the rate falling to as low as 1.5% if enough agreements are reached. […]
The labor union funding California’s Billionaire Tax Act initiative filed more than 1.5 million signatures on April 27, almost double the 875,000 needed to put the measure on November’s ballot. California voters are now a step closer to driving out one of the last remaining engines of economic growth in their state, which is already […]
Derby Day at Churchill Downs begins long before the crowd arrives, with horses training at the track since March and a backside community of 600 workers on-site.
The president has not come close to showing a balance-of-payments crisis, the statutorily required precondition for imposing tariffs under Section 122.
Almost immediately after James Hundley was appointed interim U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia to replace the predecessor who was found to have held the role unlawfully, the Department of Justice fired him.
Labor Department deploys specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion in improper payments during the pandemic.
President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for Washington, D.C., allowing FEMA to coordinate emergency relief efforts over the Potomac River sewage crisis.
Elon Musk is touting the Department of Government Efficiency’s release of open-source Medicaid data as a transparency breakthrough. But prosecutors and privacy experts say converting online tips into courtroom convictions could prove far more complicated.
Months before a mass school shooting in British Columbia, OpenAI employees raised alarm about the shooter's violent chatbot prompts and debated calling police, but ultimately opted not to, according to a new report.
1996—In Fierro v. Gomez, a Ninth Circuit panel, in an opinion by Judge Harry Pregerson, rules that California’s method of execution by lethal gas violates...
In a Texas town at the edge of the Rio Grande and a tall metal border wall, rumors swirled that federal immigration officials wanted to purchase three hulking warehouses to transform into a detention center.
Maryland sheriff fears ending law enforcement's cooperation with ICE will lead to more chaos on the streets, after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation ending long-standing 287(g) agreements.
Obama Presidential Center taxpayers face hundreds of millions in infrastructure costs with no federal agency tracking total public spending on the project.
The diverging approaches from hospitals in New York and California preview of what could become a fight over compliance, and threatening millions in federal funding.
