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Focus U.S. to resume enforcement of unlawful bird deaths by industry Associated Press – September 29 The Biden administration said Wednesday that it will draft rules under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act over the next year to govern the killing of wild birds by industry and resume enforcement actions, which the Trump administration had declined to pursue, against companies responsible for ...

The Town of Barnstable on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) that it says threatens to undermine efforts to implement its 30-year Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan (CWMP) designed to restore and preserve water quality in and around Barnstable. “The town is fully committed to protecting and improving the environmental hea...

"I think about the things, particularly in healthcare, that we focus on," said Gov. John Carney Friday. "There's not much that's more important than this, right? It's trying to get more of our healthcare service delivery upfront, primary care physicians, and that's what this bill is all about." On October 1, 2021, Carney signed into law Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 120, a substantial p...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has joined the vast majority of states in setting up a way to strip the badges of police officers who act criminally or with bias, a change that was among several criminal justice reforms signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The nation’s most populous state was one of just four without such a statewide system alongside Hawaii, New Jersey and Rhod...

Mihoko Owada / Mihoko Owada/STAR MAX/IPx Protesters breach the Capitol in Washington, DC, Jan. 6. In the days after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the Oath Keepers gained notoriety almost overnight as a symbol of right-wing extremism in America. Images of members in battle armor pushing their way into the Capitol went viral, clips of the group’s leader challenging the results o...

A Manatee County Commissioner worked with a Texas pro-life advocate to draft an ordinance banning abortion in the county. Commissioner James Satcher is now ignoring constituents and media, while reproductive rights groups call for him to be investigated. LISTEN: In recent months, Satcher has made fighting abortion access in Manatee County a personal mission. The only thing is, Manatee County...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (WJRT) LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) - New laws taking effect Friday will lift drivers license suspensions for 73,000 Michiganders. Of those 73,000 drivers, those getting the lifted suspension are those drivers who may have failed to pay tickets or court fines or failed to appear in court for certain non-moving and other violations. “By lifting suspensions f...

When Teresa Miller, a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law, showed her documentary film about the Attica Correctional Facility during a panel discussion at the Glimmerglass opera festival in 2014, it sparked an idea. Why not, she thought, bring an opera to the prison? Francesca Zambello, the director of the festival, in Cooperstown, N.Y., had the same notion and joined the eff...

Decades-old peeling paint which contains lead. SPRINGFIELD — A federal judge has ruled that a local fair housing center’s lawsuit can proceed against the state over its law requiring landlords to abate lead paint hazards in their housing only when children below the age of six are living there. In 2019, the Holyoke-based Massachusetts Fair Housing Center sued the state over its 1971 Lead...

WINNETKA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Two attorneys, Phil Brewster of Brewster Law Firm, Illinois and Patrick Mincey of Cranfill Sumner, North Carolina, were recently mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article for their representation of a North Carolina whistleblower who exposed an alleged international conspiracy to launder no less than $100 million through major U.S. securities firms, including...