Arkansas Governor Signs Revenue and Property Tax Cuts into Law

Arkansas Governor Signs Revenue and Property Tax Cuts into Law

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

Assault on US Avocado inspectors in Mexican state leads to suspension of inspections

Assault on US Avocado inspectors in Mexican state leads to suspension of inspections

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two U.S. Department of Agriculture employees were assaulted and temporarily detained by an attacker in the Mexican state of Michoacan, prompting the U.S. government to suspend inspections of avocado and mango shipmentsthe U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Tuesday. Ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement that the assault occurred while the … Read more

Watch Live: Boeing CEO Tests Before Senate Committee

Watch Live: Boeing CEO Tests Before Senate Committee

The United States emphasized and pressed The CEO of Boeing On Tuesday, he spoke about the company’s plans to resolve its manufacturing problems and its willingness to heed warnings from whistleblowers, while relatives of those who died in two Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashes were present in the room to remind him of the issues. … Read more

Judge rules federal agency can’t enforce abortion rule in Louisiana, Mississippi

Judge rules federal agency can’t enforce abortion rule in Louisiana, Mississippi

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

Judge orders BNSF to pay Swinomish Tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trains

Judge orders BNSF to pay Swinomish Tribe nearly 0 million for trespassing with oil trains

SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding the company intentionally trespassed when it ran trains to several times 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik initially ruled last year that … Read more

The US surgeon general calls for labels on social media, like on cigarettes

The US surgeon general calls for labels on social media, like on cigarettes

The U.S. surgeon general has asked Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those currently available. obligatory on cigarette boxes. In an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said social media contributes to the mental health crisis among young people. “It is time to require … Read more

Texan whose husband died of electrocution at spa in Mexican resort files wrongful death suit

Texan whose husband died of electrocution at spa in Mexican resort files wrongful death suit

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American tourist was killed and his wife hospitalized after she was electrocuted in a hot tub in a Mexican beach town earlier this week, an incident that prompted the family to sue the resort for wrongful death and negligence, their lawyers said. SATURDAY. The seriously injured woman, Lizette Zambrano, 35, … Read more

California’s Democratic leaders are clashing with businesses to combat retail theft. Here’s what you need to know

California’s Democratic leaders are clashing with businesses to combat retail theft.  Here’s what you need to know

SACRAMENTO, California. (AP) — As retail theft rises, California’s Democratic leaders are facing a coalition of law enforcement and business groups in a bitter political fight over how to crack down on the problem. The state is currently working to preserve its progressive policies and avoid putting more people behind bars. The two most likely … Read more

Judge rejects challenge to federal rules on lawsuits aimed at making it easier for workers to have abortions

Judge rejects challenge to federal rules on lawsuits aimed at making it easier for workers to have abortions

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

Supreme Court overturns Trump’s gun stockpile ban

Supreme Court overturns Trump’s gun stockpile ban

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Friday reversed a Trump-era ban on increase stocksaccessories for rapid-fire firearms used in the Deadliest mass shooting In modern U.S. history, in a decision that put guns back in the country’s political spotlight. The High Court conservative majority found that the Trump administration overreached by changing course from … Read more