LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Clark County officials held a workshop Thursday night, just over a week after a new ordinance went into effect requiring street vendors to operate legally. “We’re kind of afraid daily on what can happen,” local vendor Felix Prado said. Prado spoke with 8 News Now about the troubles that other street vendors have been […]
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Florida bans lab-grown meat. Have any other states passed their own bans against it?
Florida became the first state to outlaw lab-grown meat last week. But have any other states started their own bans with man-made beef? Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would outlaw the manufacture and distribution of lab-grown meat in the state, warning those to “take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere … we’re not doing that in […]
Bill spurred by Ohio State Dr. Strauss sex abuse scandal passed by Senate, heads to House
Legislation aimed at better protecting patients from sexually abusive medical professionals such as Dr. Richard Strauss was unanimously passed by the Ohio Senate and is headed to the House. Senate Bill 109, proposed by State Sen. Bob Hackett, R-London, and approved by Ohio senators April 24, would require doctors on probation for sexual misconduct to […]
Zelenskiy thanks Johnson, Schumer for helping get US aid bill passed
(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his gratitude on Thursday for the U.S. aid bill for Ukraine during calls with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Zelenskiy said on X that he had thanked Johnson, a Republican, who had been blocking a vote on the bill, “for his […]
Photos of 2022 southern China floods passed off online as 2024 deluge
Severe floods in southern China’s Guangdong province claimed the lives of four people and forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 in April 2024, however, online posts have shared old photos of record flooding there in 2022. The earlier crisis left some Chinese towns submerged by floodwaters and forced hundreds of thousands of people to […]
Congress passed a TikTok bill. Will the US really ban the app?
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the United States. The Senate passed it less than a week later. Joe Biden signed it a day after the Senate voted yes. TikTok is facing its biggest existential threat […]
A look at what’s in the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by the House
FILE – 155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stacked during manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2023. The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and […]
The House Just Passed the TikTok Ban. Here’s What That Means for Meta Stock.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Saturday that’s not good for popular social-media app TikTok. But it may have gone unnoticed by many investors because it was packaged inside of a foreign aid bill for Ukraine and Israel. Because of the bill, TikTok’s parent company is faced with the choice of selling […]
What passed and what failed
The Iowa Capitol in springtime. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch) As Iowa lawmakers ended the 2024 legislative session, Republican leaders said they passed their priorities, including changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies, many K-12 education initiatives and income tax cuts. “Iowa has set a course for transformation, and it was the driving force of […]
TikTok raises free speech concerns on bill passed by US House that may ban app
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – TikTok on Sunday raised free speech concerns about a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if its Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year. The House passed the legislation on Saturday by […]
The Kansas Legislature Unanimously Passed a Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill
The Kansas Legislature unanimously passed a bill overhauling the rules for when police can seize property under a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. The Kansas House and Senate voted 120-0 and 35-0, respectively, to send S.B. 458 to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk earlier this month. Among its provisions, the legislation would make offenses […]
Procession held Saturday for Jacksonville firefighter who tragically & suddenly passed away
The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department waited outside of HCA Florida Memorial Hospital on Saturday… To escort the body of Heath J. O’Shea to a funeral home. O’Shea was an engineer with JFRD who had been with the department for two decades, however, the 44-year-old father and husband is now being put to rest after […]