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US Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) WASHINGTON – U-S Senator Tina Smith is letting consumers know about a new law that aims to keep emergency medical bills from breaking Americans’ pocketbooks. The “No Surprises Act” went into effect at the start of this year and bans patients from being held responsible for most unexpected E-R charges from doctors and hospitals outside of their insurance networks t...

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday will tell everyone how he wants to spend more than $200 billion of taxpayer money over the next year as he presents the first version of his annual budget proposal to the state Legislature. The governor’s budget proposal is the first step in the complex process of spending the hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes Californians and businesses pa...

© EPA-EFE/KAZAKH PRESIDENT PRESS SERVICE NUR-SULTAN, January 10. /TASS/. Sixteen law enforcement officers lost their lives during the recent violence in Kazakhstan, while the number of civilian deaths is being clarified, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said, addressing a video conference summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Monday. "Sixteen law enforcement of...

Thomas Vitale. Courtesy Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge A Grand Rapids-based law firm named a new shareholder. Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge on Wednesday, Jan. 5, said Thomas J. Vitale became a shareholder of the firm. Vitale joined Smith Haughey as an attorney in 2019. He specializes in agriculture and agribusiness, banking and finance, business, construction, commercial litigation and rea...

Moore's Law has long been a guiding light underpinning technology innovation, but could this principle be rendered outdated as inflation continues to soar? In this segment of Backstage Pass, 10 stocks that could be the biggest winners of the stock market crash When our award-winning analyst team has an investing tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a de...

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 6: Architect Randy Popp visits an empty single family home in Palo Alto, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, after submitting plans to replace it with three new homes and an accessory unit on the property’s roughly one-acre lot size. The development proposal is one of the city’s first under the state’s new SB 9 law enacted Jan. 1, allowing some homeowners to divide...

By implementing strong gun laws, Delaware has taken important steps to protect its residents and demonstrates lower rates of certain categories of gun violence compared with other states. In 2019, for example, Delaware had the 11th-lowest rate of gun deaths and 10th-lowest rate of gun suicides in the country.1 These low numbers can likely be attributed in part to the state’s requirement of a ...

Michigan Lawmaker-Sexual Assault Michigan State Police are investigating allegations of sexual assault made against former state Rep. Lee Chatfield, who served as one of Michigan's youngest-ever House speakers, PEOPLE confirms. Chatfield denies the accusation. Chatfield's sister-in-law, now 26, has claimed the 33-year-old former lawmaker sexually assaulted her from the time she was 15 until J...

A card with the words 'Never again, always remember' commemorates the Holocaust near the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters] A Polish diplomat charged with improving contacts with Jews worldwide has been fired after he criticised his own government’s approach to regulating Holocaust speech, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Jaroslaw Nowak, th...

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