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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a $64 million unemployment tax cut into law on Friday, saying it will help businesses hang on to more earnings. The bill locks a lower unemployment insurance rate into place for the next two years. Little signed the bill while at Henggeler Packing Company in Fruitland. The legislation is part of a package of tax cuts Little promoted during his...

The supreme court’s ruling against Bloomberg News in a landmark case is a threat to legitimate investigative reporting Prince Andrew’s decision to cut his losses and settle out of court with Virginia Giuffre grabbed all the headlines. But the most far-reaching legal activity this week may have taken place in London rather than New York, with disturbing implications for the freedom of the pres...

Where a contract specifies its governing law, but is silent as to the governing law of the arbitration agreement, the question arises as to which law governs the arbitration agreement – the governing law of the contract, or the law of the seat? The UK Supreme Court recently delivered its second judgment in as many years on this question in Kabab-Ji SAL (Lebanon) (Appellant) v Kout Food Group ...

(WAFB) BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - This upcoming session the Education Committee will be focusing on trying to improve students’ future, and lawmakers believe they will have the extra money to do that. Louisiana’s general fund is budgeting at $8.5 million, along with federal COVID aid of $1.4 billion and $700 million leftover from last year. “For the first time in 9 years, the state is like flu...

Ghost guns displayed at San Francisco Police Department headquarters in 2019. Proposed legislation could provide a pathway for Californians to sue manufacturers and distributors of ghost gun kits. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday unveiled his plan to challenge the U.S. Supreme Court and test a Texas law that authorizes citizen-led lawsuits against abortion providers with a California bill that ...

Social media is a video game. You can win at it, and you can definitely lose at it. It’s being played all the time. Sometimes, the game is playing you. This week, the losers were the development team of The Sims 4. Last week, that team announced that the new Sims expansion it had been working on, My Wedding Stories, would not be published in Russia, citing “federal laws.” Most interpreted thi...

Missouri Capitol/Jefferson City, Mo. (KY3) COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A crime-fighting partnership between Missouri and the Justice Department is caught in the middle of a dispute over a new Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws. At issue is the Safer Streets Initiative, under which Missouri assistant attorneys general are deputized as assistant U.S. attorneys so that th...

Ukrainian parliamentary body Verkhovna Rada supported the amendments of the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the country’s law on virtual assets, creating a legal market for cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the nation, according to a press release Thursday (Feb. 17). After the vote, which was supported by 272 of the Rada’s 450 members, the National Securities Commission will...

Mid-South law enforcement will be hitting the roads in force this weekend after a recent spike in deadly crashes. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Slow Down Memphis. Mid-South law enforcement will be hitting the roads in force this weekend after a recent spike in deadly crashes. The Tennessee Highway Safety Office joined with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Memphis Police, and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office F...

Thousands of Texans have had their absentee ballot applications denied as a result of regulations put in place under the state’s new election law, a jump in rejections that could force many older and disabled voters to either vote in person or not at all in primary elections early next month. With a Friday deadline, election officials in the state’s most populous counties have rejected 10 per...