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Avis and Budget rental cars that have not been rented sit in a shopping center parking lot. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) – Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed a new law meant to empower localities across the commonwealth to cut tax rates and prevent huge tax hikes driven by dramatic increases in used vehicle values. “With prices soaring on the necessities that families and ind...

In keeping with his calls to fund the police, President Joe Biden's proposed budget announced Monday includes $17.4 billion for federal law enforcement to combat violent crime, $1.7 billion above the 2021 enacted level. During his State of the Union address this month, Biden drew support from Republicans and Democrats when he said: "We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police....

Coca-Cola has walked away from ambitious diversity requirements on outside law firms, which were developed by the company's previous general counsel. The Coca-Cola Co. has officially walked away from race-based staffing requirements for law firms doing work for the company, following blowback from some investors and the removal of the executive who developed the plan. The proposed requirement...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a highly controversial piece of legislation that restricts instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida schools. Flanked by students, DeSantis signed House Bill 1557 Monday at Classical Preparatory School, a K-12 charter school in Spring Hill. The legislation—which supporters call the “Parental Rights in Educati...

Coca-Cola has walked away from ambitious diversity requirements on outside law firms, which were developed by the company's previous general counsel. New general counsel says no diverse staffing mandate for law firms Move came amid exit of former general counsel Bradley Gayton The Coca-Cola Co. has officially walked away from race-based staffing requirements for law firms doing work for the...

ALBANY, NY – New York State Senator Daphne Jordan, New York State Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt, Assembly Republican Leader Will Barclay, law enforcement officials and members of the Assembly and Senate Republican Conferences today called on Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders to reverse failed criminal justice policies and strengthen public protection in the 2022-23 State Budget. “...

University of Louisville appoints dean to Louis. D. Brandeis School of Law  WDRB

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a highly controversial piece of legislation that restricts instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida schools. Flanked by students, DeSantis signed House Bill 1557 Monday at Classical Preparatory School, a K-12 charter school in Spring Hill. The legislation—which supporters call the “Parental Rights in Educati...

When Pueblo police responded to reports of gunfire near the 1800 block of East 5th Street earlier this month, they said they found an armed man who had eight previous felony offenses, including several that were drug-related. But legislation that took effect at the beginning of March meant they couldn't arrest him, they said. Until March 1, previously convicted felons in Colorado could not k...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, arrives on the third day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Her husband Patrick Jackson appears at left. If there is any group of people who understand the challenges Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson fac...