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California's Supreme Court ruled that employers must pay workers for the time they spend completing off-the-clock tasks, such as locking up after work. The decision, issued this week, marks a win for labor advocates who say requiring hourly workers to spend minutes doing unpaid tasks amounts to wage theft.
The U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to rule on whether existing civil rights law banning sex discrimination covers discrimination based on gender identity. A Michigan funeral home operator, represented by the anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom, has asked the high court to review an appeals court's decision that its firing of a transgender employee violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title VII bans sex discrimination.
Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff now accuses Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill of pursuing a criminal investigation against him in retaliation for supporting Gill's 2010 election opponent. An amended lawsuit filed Friday in federal court spells out in detail Shurtleff's contention that the now-dismissed public corruption case him was politically motivated.
The Brady Campaign :Until a few weeks ago, the United States government held the longstanding and reasonable policy that enabling terrorists, domestic abusers, and international crime rings to make their own undetectable guns with 3D printers posed a danger to national security and international peace. On Friday, July 27th, using Orwellian, "Lies are Truth" logic, the Trump Administration announced that enabling international terrorists to download plans for, and then make, AR-15s and other guns "is in the interest of the security and foreign policy of the United States."
Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks to EPA staff, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at EPA Headquarters in Washington. Wheeler, acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has reversed the final policy act of his predecessor, Scott Pruitt: granting a loophole that would have allowed more highly polluting trucks on the nation's roads.
Sheldon Silver, the former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades before corruption charges abruptly ended his career, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison. The punishment, announced by U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, was five years less than the 12-year sentence she gave to Silver after he was initially convicted in the case in 2015.
After rigorous testing that included many drops, the display continued to work normally without any damage to the front, edges, or sides. Samsung Display, the subsidiary at Samsung Electronics to research and develop new displays for the company has just announced an 'unbreakable smartphone display.'
Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that "the administration is seriously weakening EPA's mission." On his last day as an EPA employee, Mike Cox sent a tough letter to then-Administrator Scott Pruitt about administration policies.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan plan to announce a proposed court agreement Friday afternoon that would govern reforms in the troubled Chicago Police Department . A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m., and city officials are holding briefings for attorneys and other stakeholders beforehand, sources said.
The audio recording of Trump and his then-lawyer, Cohen, captures the two men discussing hush money payments to a former Playboy model alleging an affair. . FILE - In a Wednesday, May 30, 2018 file photo, Michael Cohen arrives to court in New York.
Human trafficking doesn't just happen internationally - it's happening here in West Virginia and affects all ages and genders, according to the West Virginia Attorney General's office. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced his office, in coordination with the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute, will offer law enforcement professionals intense training to target and reduce human trafficking.
A Las Vegas doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in connection with a sweeping crackdown on health care fraud by the Department of Justice. A Las Vegas doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in connection with a sweeping crackdown on health care fraud by the Department of Justice.
This was because an A.P. reporter recently learned of Department of Justice plans to reopen the 1955 Emmett Till lynching case. Federal officials say the decision was spurred by revelations in my book, "The Blood of Emmett Till," published a year and a half ago.
The attorney for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, says Rudy Giuliani is "inventing words" as he defends Trump after the release of a tape Cohen secretly made of Trump discussing a potential payment for a former Playboy model's account of having an affair with him. Giuliani, Trump's current lawyer, says he's had an expert enhance the muffled recording.
Fighting so-called organized crime is not easy. When it comes to criminal street gang activity, preventing it through gang injunctions actually has worked, according to at least one study.
In this July 11, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks to EPA staff at EPA Headquarters in Washington. Wheeler says there should be a single national standard for fuel efficiency for cars and trucks, speaking out as a showdown looms with California that could throw the car market into turmoil.
U.S. president Donald Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen can be heard taking about "financing" a payment in a tape of a recorded conversation released to CNN . Lanny Davis, the lawyer for Cohen, provided a copy of the tape to CNN Tuesday.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to repeal the controversial medical device tax created by former President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law. "The House just voted to repeal Obamacare's Medical Device Tax," House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted.
In 1996, Bill Clinton signed a strict workfare bill, which was so popular that it helped him get re-elected. A Brookings Institute study by welfare scholar Ron Haskins proved those reforms moved more than half of those on welfare into the workforce, and millions eventually gained economic self-sufficiency.
The editorial was so filled with hyperbole, half-truths and untruths that I found it difficult to decide which issues to address. Pure socialists believe in government ownership of essential industries such as munitions, telephone, electricity, transportation and postal services.