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Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geri Richmond recently testified about the department’s organizational efforts to increase interchange between basic research, applied R&D, and deployment initiatives. Meanwhile, a number of senior R&D leadership roles at the department remain unfilled. Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geri Richmond testifies at...

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is celebrating a "monumental" moment in both U.S. history, and in her life: a new law that allows survivors of workplace sexual assault and harassment to file suit against their perpetrators. Carlson, 55, has been advocating for Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act for the past five years. On Thursday, she spoke at a spe...

The neighbors living next to Breonna Taylor, whose apartment was pierced by bullets fired by Brett Hankison, are upset with his not guilty verdict. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Cody Etherton and Chelsey Napper, the neighbors living next to Breonna Taylor whose apartment was pierced by bullets fired by Brett Hankison, are upset with his not guilty verdict. They are pursuing a civil lawsuit against...

Vaccine card (JJ Gouin via Shutterstock) Credit: JJ Gouin / Shutterstock The Judiciary Committee is proposing a bill that would make it a misdemeanor punishable by one year in jail for forging a COVID-19 vaccination card. The bill would make altering or forging a COVID-19 card or an electronic record of COVID-19 vaccination on par with the state’s forgery law, said Senate President Martin Loo...

Cable companies, like Spectrum, will now have to prorate customer's bills in Maine (WGME). STATEWIDE (WGME) -- After nearly two years of legal challenges, Maine's law requiring cable companies to prorate bills is now in effect and being enforced. The Maine Attorney General's Office says all Mainers who have canceled service since the law took effect in June of 2020 are entitled to a prorated ...

An electric vehicle maker considered – and then rejected – North Carolina for a $5 billion manufacturing plant, and public records show it likely came down to politics. Rivian, an Amazon-backed company that in December confirmed plans for a 7,500-job facility near Atlanta, Georgia, took North Carolina off the site list because a state bill it thought could pass was never brought forward. Whil...

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On February 11, 2022, we reported on Congress’ enactment of legislation barring the use of mandatory arbitration provisions in cases of sexual assault or sexual harassment. On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed the bill into law, as expected, making it illegal to compel an employee to arbitrate a claim of sexual assault or sexual harassment. The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault ...

WASHINGTON – Duke Edward Wilson, 67, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for assaulting a law enforcement officer and other actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes for the presidential election. According to court document...

Associated Press BBC pauses reporting from inside Russia in response to media bill and posts instructions on Twitter for skirting Kremlin ban to access Russian-language information The Russian flag flutters Friday night atop the building housing the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament, in central Moscow. DUSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Frida...