Left: Heather Cross. Right: Darcy Cross (Crow Wing County Jail). A mother and father from Minnesota are behind bars after they allegedly locked up their 10-year-old daughter with autism in a bed, left her alone for at least 10 or 12 hours and found her unconscious under a bed frame. Heather Lynn Cross, 49, and…
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that it is suing six states for failing to produce their statewide voter registration lists after they were requested. California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania were among the states targeted by the DOJ in identical lawsuits after they did not produce details pertaining…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for ready-to-eat meals containing a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated pre-cooked pasta that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). FSIS expects more updates as this investigation continues. As more information becomes available, FSIS will update this public health…
Eight companies marketing generic human medicinal products in the EU have each succeeded in persuading the General Court that a decision of the European Commission to grant an additional year of marketing protection to Biogen’s multiple sclerosis treatment, Tecfidera, should be annulled.1 The General Court concluded that the correct interpretation of Article 14 (11) of…
The assassination of Charlie Kirk — shocking, disgraceful, horrid, any number of adjectives fit here. Whether you agreed with his philosophy in whole or in part, whether you disagreed vociferously with him in whole or in part, the wanton killing of a 31-year-old husband and father of two young children was an act of ruthless…
Inset: Andrew Watson (San Joaquin County District Attorney”s Office). Background: The strip mall where a truck crashed after Watson shot and killed the driver in Lathrop, Calif. (Google Maps). A California man will spend the next several decades behind bars for killing an Amazon semi-truck driver during a highway shooting. In August, Andrew Christopher Watson,…
In an executive order issued on Thursday, US President Donald Trump formalized a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping to operate TikTok as a “newly established joint venture” in the US. ByteDance Ltd., TikTok’s parent company, and its affiliates will own less than 20 percent of the US-based entity. However, the joint venture will have…
All Reciprocal:Implemented(effective Apr. 5, 2025; amended June 16, 2025) 10% baseline See exemptions below Baseline may be replaced by country-specific rate below Details ▾ De minimis exemption suspended (effective Aug. 29, 2025): With the exception of shipments sent through the international postal network, which are subject special duty rates, shipments that would have otherwise qualified…
On March 1, 2026, the Connecticut Transfer Act will be sunset and a new set of remediation regulations will go into effect. These new regulations will be much more similar to what we see in other states (e.g., Massachusetts ch. 21E and the Massachusetts Contingency Plan). The Release Report series highlights key features of the new…
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) announced today she’s introducing articles of impeachment against which Trump cabinet member (who received his JD from the University of Virginia)? Hint: She cited the “chaos” and “reckless cuts” in his department in her announcement. See the answer on the next…
