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A Staten Island gas hookup is shown Friday, Jan. 14, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Paul Liotta) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City became the nation’s largest municipality in December to ban natural gas hookups from new construction projects. Now, a similar measure seems closer to reality at the state level. During Kathy Hochul’s 2022 State of the State — her first since replacing former Gov....

ALBANY – A pair of his bills aimed at improving safety standards for residents and workers in adult care and nursing home facilities have been signed into law. The two bills, S1783 and S1784A, sponsored by Senator James Skoufis (D, Cornwall) implement a nursing home infectious disease inspection protocol as well as a new requirement for every long term care facility to establish infectious di...

OHIO – Members of the Ohio congressional delegation Friday asked House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law that would address a global shortage of Computer chips for technology. A shortage of these chips is a crisis is holding us hostage, said GOP U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson, “It’s past time to bolster this production here at home.” By enacting the CHIPS for America Act in the FY 2021 Nationa...

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons in London on Oct 22, 2019. (Photo:AFP/Pru) LONDON: Britain's main opposition leader on Sunday (Jan 16) accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of breaking the law, but the government vowed changes after a bruising series of revelations about lockdown-breaching parties. In the latest, Johnson's wife Carrie was photographed ...

The Supreme Court, with six conservative justices, has shown a different attitude toward precedent and the Constitution. At the start of this new semester, we face a sobering reality. As law and political science professors, we’re in new territory: instructing our students about the foundations of constitutional law when neither they nor we have faith that the current Supreme Court will re...

Should former President Donald Trump run for the White House again, an obscure Reconstruction-era law could keep him off the ballot in six southern states, including North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, because of his incitement of the Jan. 6 insurrection. The third section of the 14th Amendment prohibits people who swore to defend the Constitution, but who subsequently took part in an insurr...

SYDNEY, Australia — The day before the Australian Open was set to begin, Novak Djokovic, possibly the greatest tennis player of all time, ran up against a group of determined opponents that no amount of talent, training, money or willpower could overcome. He lost his final bid to stay in Australia on Sunday when a three-judge panel upheld the government’s decision to cancel his visa. More bro...

British Labour Party leader Kier Starmer arrives at the BBC Headquarters in London, Britain, January 16, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party said Prime Minister Boris Johnson had broken the law and then lied about it over parties held inside his Downing Street residence during coronavirus lockdowns. "I think he broke the law....

The demands of law enforcement has been something Tamara Garber has dealt with all her life, but has found work to be challenging and rewarding. Garber, who is data specialist supervisor at the Cole County Sheriff's Department, started working in the sheriff's office right out of high school, doing work in the records department before attending the University of Central Missouri in Warrensbu...

A partner at law firm Cooley LLP got an unexpected call late last year from a lawyer for one of the firm’s most famous clients, Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., with an ultimatum. The world’s richest man wanted Cooley, which was representing Tesla in numerous lawsuits, to fire one of its attorneys or it would lose the electric-vehicle company’s business, people familiar with the matter said. The targe...