PETIT ROCH, Ark. (AP) – The governor of Arkansas. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Wednesday cutting state spending. property and income taxes after concluding a special session in which they also approved legislation to maintain the state’s hunting and fishing programs. Sanders signed the measure cutting the state’s highest corporate and personal income tax rates, … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, along with employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to grant to workers on holidays and other workplaces. accommodations for abortions. Judge David Joseph granted the preliminary injunction … Read more
CHICAGO (AP) – ONE Lawsuit filed by 17 states Tough federal rules allow workers to take leave and other accommodation for abortions lacks standing, an Arkansas federal judge ruled Friday. Republican attorneys general from each state, led by Arkansas and Tennessee, sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April, days after the agency published the … Read more
HOUSTON (AP) — Scattered power outages Wednesday in storm-weary Texas could persist into the weekend after storms flooded the streets of Houston for the second time this month and ripped off roofs in Dallas, killing a teenager and injuring others. The teen was killed Tuesday at a construction site while working on a house that … Read more
HOUSTON (AP) — Severe storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail slammed Texas Tuesday, leaving more than a million businesses and homes without power as much of the United States was recovering from severe weather, including tornadoes, which killed at least 24 people during this period. on the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Widespread outages were … Read more