Report: 3 Miami officers fired over target practice ‘jokes’

Three new police officers were fired for making comments on a group chat about using Miami's primarily black neighborhoods for target practice, a newspaper reported Friday. Officers Kevin Bergnes, Miguel Valdes and Bruce Alcin were let go on Dec. 23, after an internal affairs investigation concluded that they violated department policies, said the Miami Herald , citing documents it obtained.

Obama to meet lawmakers in attempt to protect health law

President Barack Obama plans to meet Democratic lawmakers in Congress next week to discuss how to protect his signature healthcare law from Republican efforts to dismantle it, a White House official said on Friday. Obama, who is leaving office on Jan. 20, will attend a meeting with Democrats from the House of Representatives and the Senate on Wednesday, the official said.

11th-hour Obama moves to thwart President-elect’s agenda

President Barack Obama will head to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with House and Senate Democrats on a strategy to block the Republican effort to dismantle his signature health care law. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced earlier this month that repealing Obamacare was the first item on the agenda for the new Congress in 2017 and President-elect Donald Trump has called for the program to be repealed and replaced.

Widespread Drug Price Increases Point to Collusion, Study Finds

About one in 19 generic drugs sold in the U.S. during the past three years have undergone major price hikes that may be consistent with collusion, according to a wide-ranging study that comes in the middle of a sprawling Justice Department investigation into pharmaceutical price-fixing. Fideres Partners LLP, a London-based consultancy that works with law firms to bring litigation against companies, analyzed price moves in 1,670 generic drugs sold in the U.S. from 2013 to 2016.

Obamacare subscribers decry possible repeal

Josh Scussell has fought his non-Hodgkins lymphoma for years, enduring stem-cell transplants and rounds of chemotherapy as doctors worked to sustain his life. But the Guilford resident on Wednesday said the real reason he's still among the living is the federal Affordable Care Act - otherwise known as Obamacare - that the newly elected Republican majority in Congress intends to repeal.

EPA issues long-delayed chemical plant safety rule

The Environmental Protection Agency has updated a 25-year-old regulation intended to reduce chemical plant accidents and protect communities, workers, and emergency responders. The revision to EPA's Risk Management Program is part of a sweeping regulatory overhaul of federal industrial safety regulations ordered by President Barack Obama in 2013.

The Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show, coming to the Wilson County Expo Center, draws huge crowds.

The nationally-famous Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show will be held at the Wilson County Expo Center Jan., 28-29 after being forced out at the State Fairgrounds in Nashville amid what the show's organizer calls false accusations. "Let's start with the so-called 'gun show loophole'," says David Goodman, whose late father founded the Kentucky-based trade show 49 years ago and has made annual appearances at the Fairgrounds for 35 years.

Republican attorneys general eager to dism…

As soon as President-elect Donald Trump assumes office Jan. 20, Republican attorneys general who have spent the past eight years battling the Obama administration's climate change agenda will have a new role: supporting the Republican president's complex legal effort to roll back that agenda. By contrast, states with Democratic leadership - such as California, where Gov. Jerry Brown has promised all-out war against Mr. Trump on global warming - will go from being environmental partners with the federal government to legal aggressors on their own.

Obama says he would have outrun Trump, but Trump says, ‘No way!’

U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday that he would have won most Americans' support if he had been able to run against Donald Trump for a third term. U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the podium after speaking to journalists during his last news conference of the year at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2016.

Mass. measure seeks protections for undocumented immigrants

For municipalities with large populations of undocumented immigrants, it's one of the biggest challenges for law enforcement: How do we create a relationship of trust with a community taught not to trust us? After the presidential race spurred heated national debate on immigration, state Sen. Jamie Eldridge announced last month plans to refile a bill to allow state and local law enforcement to take a lighthanded approach to federal immigration laws. The Acton Democrat filed the bill in two previous legislative sessions, but he has hopes it will find more support this year.

The Practical LawyerOne of the most controversial features of the…

One of the most controversial features of the recent presidential candidate was Donald Trump's promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and possibly charge Hillary Clinton with a handful of criminal offenses. Clinton's fans responded with outrage, claiming it is bad form for a presidential candidate to threaten jailing an opponent.

Imprisoned Blagojevich awaits Obama decision on commutation

In this July 15, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse in Chicago. Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing.

Trump to Dissolve Foundation

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.