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Ailan Evans A federal court upheld an earlier district court ruling on Wednesday that blocked Missouri’s recently passed abortion law. The law, titled the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, prohibits abortions for women eight or more weeks pregnant and for women seeking an abortion solely…
Read More Block On Missouri Abortion Law Upheld By Federal Court
Kendall Tietz Smugglers transporting illegal migrants across the border have been operating at a new level of sophistication, according to two sheriffs in the Houston area. Sheriffs Justin Marr of Victoria County and A.J. Louderback of Jackson County told the Washington Examiner that deputies in their area are used…
Read More Smugglers Transporting Illegal Migrants Becoming More Violent, Sophisticated, Texas Sheriffs Say
Steven Hall A Goldman Sachs survey released Tuesday showed that most small businesses are concerned about inflation, and many have raised their prices due to increasing costs. The survey found that 48% of small businesses raised the prices of their goods and services due to inflation,…
Read More Nearly Half Of Small Businesses Raised Prices Due To Inflation, Survey Finds
Harry Wilmerding Wisconsin pharmacist Steven Brandenburg was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for attempting to ruin over 500 COVID-19 doses. Brandenburg, 46, worked as a pharmacist at the Advocate Aurora Health Center in Grafton, Wisconsin. He pleaded guilty in February to two counts…
Read More Pharmacist Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Attempting To Spoil 500 Vaccine Doses
Ailan Evans Ohio’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking for a court declaration classifying tech giant Google as a public utility. The state’s attorney general, Dave Yost, argued Google’s size, complexity, and market dominance made the tech company a public utility or common carrier,…
Read More Ohio Lawsuit Argues Google Should Be Treated As A Public Utility
Andrew Trunsky Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill Monday requiring all registered voters in the state to receive mail-in ballots, breaking from GOP leaders in other states that have restricted the measure. The bill, S.15, sailed through Vermont’s legislature, and made permanent expansions that were first…
Read More Vermont’s Republican Governor Signs Legislation Expanding Mail-In Voting
Thomas Catenacci The U.S. government recovered much of the cryptocurrency ransom payment worth approximately $4.4 million that Colonial Pipeline made to hackers last month, the Justice Department announced. U.S. law enforcement was able to track and seize the transaction back to a cryptocurrency wallet belonging…
Read More US Recovers Millions In Colonial Pipeline Ransom After Tracking Cryptocurrency Payment
A new United States federal program is helping to pay funeral expenses of people who died from COVID-19. Unfortunately, scammers are using this as a chance to steal personal information from bereaved family members. How the Scam Works You get a call, email, or text…
Read More BBB Scam Alert: Government Imposters Pose As FEMA And Trick Grieving Family Members
Who says common sense has fled California? On Friday, a federal judge tried to restore that and invoke some reason and reality into the gun control debate by overturning California’s “assault weapons” ban. In his ruling Judge Roger Benitez specifically singled out the AR-15 as…
Read More Judge: California’s Assault Weapons Ban ‘Disrespects’ Freedom, And Therefore Is Unconstitutional
BEL AIR, MD – A federal grand jury has indicted Donald Hildebrandt, age 51, of Bel Air, Maryland, on the federal charges of obstruction of justice, production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The federal charges were announced by Acting United States Attorney…
Read More Baltimore Police SWAT Officer, Bel Air Man, Facing Federal Indictment, Obstruction Of Justice, Production, And Possession of Child Porn