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FILE – In this April 23, 2014 file photo, a man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago. Teen vapers prefer Juul and mint is the #1 flavor among many of them, suggesting a shift after the company’s fruit and dessert flavors were removed from retail stores, U.S. research suggests. The results are in a pair of studies published Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, including a report from the Food and Dru...

Schools on tribal land lax in enforcing community's mask rules, parents say  AZCentral.com

While the infrastructure package recently passed by the Senate is a critical piece of legislation for the future of the U.S., it leaves out one important area: data. As a significant challenge facing all businesses in the U.S., data is a modern kind of infrastructure that needs to be addressed with the same care and consideration as roads and bridges. It’s also a critical underpinning for man...

Carmelita was still trying to understand why so many migrants were allowed into Del Rio, Texas, where they camped in squalor under a bridge near her home. “I felt terrified,” she said. “There were, like, a lot of nights where I could not sleep.” She and her friend Kimberly, both 16, were studying for school outside Starbucks, minutes from the Mexico border. They had been living on the margins...

Although the terms are not ironed out, changes to our federal tax laws will be implemented in the next several months. Upon announcement, the details will likely spur significant, immediate changes to people’s estate plans, especially for people who own small businesses or farms. The immediateness of the desire to adapt to those tax law changes will be amplified if any tax increases are appli...

(Ethan Miller/Getty Images) An attendee looks at Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifles at the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas in this 2012 file photo. The law, just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, requires the DOJ to verify the validity of a hunting license for those under 21 Like the many gun safety bills that have come before it...

Earlier this month, Alan Braid did what no other surgeon in Texas had dared: He violated his state’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Then he announced it to the world. In a Sept. 18 op-ed in The Washington Post, Braid explained that he’d performed the procedure on a woman who was in her first trimester but beyond the state’s new limit, because she had a “fundamental right to re...

Bringing the law into the 21st century, the New York legislature has updated the state's telemarketing statute to add text messaging. Joint bills in the Senate and Assembly modified Section 399-z of the General Business Law to include the term "electronic messaging text" to multiple definitions in the statute, such as "telemarketer," "telemarketing" and "telemarketing sales calls." The amende...

Labor Law: Employees are exhausted and burnt out – and so are employers.  Richmond.com

The Supreme Court's 1973 decision on Roe v. Wade shut down all democratic debate on abortion, leading to an inevitable weaponization of the issue by each party. One of the problems with abortion law is that it’s difficult to separate how we feel about abortion from how we feel about the law. This is worth keeping in mind as Texas and Florida Republicans, who are pushing legislatively against ...