Indiana attorney general quitting role with health firm
Indiana’s newly elected attorney general is giving up his work with a health benefits consulting firm just days before the filing deadline for his state financial disclosure report.
Far-left activists are furious with the “corporate Democrats” that sided with Republicans against Sen. Bernard Sanders’ latest push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
SharesSenate Democratic leaders failed to get a minimum wage hike to $15 per hour in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, as the chamber took up a flurry of amendments Friday to President Biden’s top legislative priority.
SharesIndiana’s newly elected attorney general is giving up his work with a health benefits consulting firm just days before the filing deadline for his state financial disclosure report.
SharesThe hack of a company that manages ticket-processing and frequent-flier data for major global airlines - including Star Alliance and OneWorld members - has compromised the personal data of an unspecified number of travelers.
SharesThe Idaho House has killed the Idaho Attorney General's budget for the upcoming year, a move that will force the Legislature's budget-setting committee to create a new budget for the office.
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SharesA Las Cruces man suspected of seriously injuring a city police officer with his vehicle during a February incident at a fast-food restaurant died Friday after a shootout with law enforcement officers in Juarez, Mexico, authorities said.
SharesPitcher Sam Dyson was suspended for the 2021 season by Major League Baseball on Friday under the domestic violence policy of the league and the players' association.
SharesA southwest Missouri real estate agent was charged Friday with conspiring to have her former mother-in-law killed.
SharesThe head of the World Health Organization called Friday for patent rights to be waived until the end of the coronavirus pandemic so that vaccine supplies can be dramatically increased, saying these “unprecedented times” warrant the move.
SharesSome Democratic members of Congress and national union leaders on Friday sought to rustle up support for unionizing a massive Amazon facility outside Birmingham, comparing Alabama workers’ organizing campaign to the civil rights movement.
SharesPresident Joseph R. Biden said Friday the American Rescue Plan Act making its way through Congress will help lift up millions of American - including those that are worried that their enhanced unemployment benefits will run out.
SharesGet ready for another season - hopefully, the last - of the most hapless act in sports.
SharesA military-style jet trainer operated by a civilian test pilot school crashed in California’s Mojave Desert on Friday and the two-member crew ejected safely, the school said.
SharesHere's what's happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
SharesBritain’s vaccines minister on Friday dismissed suggestions that the country was getting key COVID-19 jabs intended for poorer countries, insisting that 10 million doses coming from India were always intended for distribution in the U.K.
SharesThere are some very rich people about to get a whole lot richer. Who else but NFL owners?
SharesState senators abandoned a plan Friday to strip Georgia's elected labor commissioner of much of his authority, with the proposal's sponsor saying he believed Republican Mark Butler had received the message that lawmakers want faster action on complaints about delayed and denied jobless benefits.
SharesWorkers dredging muck from the Savannah harbor unexpectedly scooped up three cannons that likely predate the Civil War, officials said Friday.
SharesBorrowing by Americans fell in January for the first time in five months, as the use of credit cards fell to the lowest level in four years, offsetting gains in auto loans and student loans.
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