Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday in multiple states across the country for a closely watched off-year election that observers note could serve as a bellwether for next year's congressional and White House races. Here are the times when polls close on Election Day for states holding major elections Tuesday. All times are listed...
In September, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed increasing by as much as 70 percent the salary threshold that determines which workers are eligible for overtime pay. The intent of this proposal is laudable, and a regulation that disability service providers would love to fully support. But the magnitude of this increase, without a federal...
Commercializing the production of synthetic dietary fats could relieve pressure on a global agricultural sector that is struggling to decarbonize, a new study has found. The widespread manufacture of farm-free food could yield numerous environmental and societal benefits — enabling people to “eat our way” out of a burgeoning climate crisis, according to the study...
The Senate GOP's campaign arm is clashing with former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) over his bid for an open Senate seat in Michigan. Meijer, who lost his House seat last cycle to a Trump-backed challenger over his vote to impeach the former president, announced he was running for retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) seat. The...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will review a chemical used in tire production in response to a petition from three Native American tribes that cited its history of killing salmon. California’s Yurok Tribe and Washington state’s Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and Puyallup Tribe petitioned the agency this summer to consider prohibiting the use of 6PPD, a...
Barbra Streisand says after discovering iPhone’s Siri was mispronouncing her name, she went straight to the top with her concerns. “I said my name isn’t with a ‘z’ — it’s Streisand, like sand on the beach,” the legendary singer said in a Sunday interview with the BBC after learning Apple devices weren’t reading the name correctly....
Ohioans will decide on Tuesday whether abortion access will be enshrined into the state constitution in a vote that has captured the attention of the entire country post Roe.
Former President Trump testified on the stand Monday that New York Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James are “trying to hurt" him for “political reasons."