Criminal networks in the European Union are penetrating legal businesses across the 27-nation bloc and rely heavily on corruption to develop their activities. That’s the bleak picture emerging from a report published Friday by the EU crime agency. Europol has identified 821 particularly threatening criminal networks with more than 25,000 members in the bloc. According […]
Police in Costa Mesa, California, were ordered by a court to return drugs worth $800,000 wholesale to a legal marijuana manufacturer. The Costa Mesa Police Department had accused the owners of the Se7enleaf dispensary of illegal operations and seized the product in September 2023, according to Bay Area news site SFGate.com. The seized narcotics included […]
In what The Wall Street Journal called a “capitulation” by the Walt Disney Co., the entertainment giant is dropping its war with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over control of development around its Florida resort. “Everything we’ve done has been in the best interests of the state of Florida, and we have been vindicated on all […]
President Biden has made tackling environmental justice a pillar of his climate change agenda. Now an ambitious regulation at the heart of the president’s plan to use environmental rules to go after businesses accused of making poor communities unhealthy is about to be thrust under a legal microscope. The Environmental Protection Agency is suing to […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling. A divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold enforcement of […]
In the midst of March Madness, the NCAA is pushing for states with legal wagering on sporting events to ban prop bets on college athletes. “Sports betting issues are on the rise across the country with prop bets continuing to threaten the integrity of competition and leading to student-athletes getting harassed,” NCAA President Charlie Baker […]
The courtroom battles between The Walt Disney Corporation and the state of Florida are finally over. Less than two months after a judge dismissed Disney’s federal lawsuit against the state and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), Disney has settled its state suit. “This dismissal is made with the understanding that […]
NBC News has taken heat from both sides of the political aisle for the announced plans to hire former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel — and now the story has taken a twist. The network reportedly has abandoned the plans to hire McDaniel. “SCOOP … NBC NEWS plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel […]
Officials with President Biden’s reelection campaign on Monday portrayed a pending Supreme Court case over nationwide access to the abortion pill as an example of the extreme limits that former President Donald Trump would place on reproductive health care if elected in November. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who is a Biden-Harris campaign advisory […]
What began as a tempest in a teapot has morphed into a PR disaster for the celebrities who capitalized on the public frenzy surrounding the “disappearance” of Catherine, Princess of Wales, from public life following major abdominal surgery. From hysterical conspiracy theories, to celebrities like actress Blake Lively and professional useless person Kim Kardashian making […]
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