The Scoop Top Democratic consultants debated Wednesday, before an audience of large Democratic donors, whether they could push Joe Biden from the race for president — and whether Vice President Kamala Harris would be worse than a “comatose” or “dead” Biden. “Seventy-two percent of people want something different. Why not give it to them?” asked […]
Georgia attorneys are weighing in on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding presidential immunity in criminal cases. “Essentially it’s gutted the Georgia case as far as going forward anytime soon,” Attorney Manny Arora said. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted six to three, rejecting Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. [DOWNLOAD: Free […]
The federal government “has a strong interest” in a lawsuit challenging a controversial Florida law requiring teachers to use pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth, according to a brief filed this week by the Biden administration. Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the […]
Thursday night, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off on the debate stage for the first time this election cycle. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
MUMBAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s worsening water shortage, triggered by high consumption amid rapid economic growth and frequent natural disasters, can negatively impact the South Asian nation’s sovereign credit strength, Moody’s Ratings said on Tuesday. Millions of Indians face water shortages every summer when water demand rises in farms, offices and homes against a limited supply, but […]
Like the rest of America in the mid-1990s, Dan Byron remembers watching the murder trial involving former football player OJ Simpson on television. At the time, Byron — now a senior partner with the Dentons Law Firm — said he felt Indiana could do a better job showing what actually goes on inside courtrooms. But […]
The Supreme Court last week struck down a federal ban on bump stocks, but some Virginia legislators say the debate isn’t over. “We will continue talking about it,” said U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, speaking Thursday at a virtual news conference. “The bump stock ruling by the Supreme Court was more about that you couldn’t do […]
Sacramento needs to hear your gripes about streets near you. The city is creating a new plan to make walking, rolling and biking on city streets safer and more pleasant. The extensive plan includes areas where officials want to fix sidewalks, slow down cars and plant more trees. The plan emphasizes neighborhoods in south Sacramento, […]
Do surgeon general warnings work? That’s a question being asked after U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy wrote a New York Times op-ed on Monday calling for such warnings — which would have to be approved by Congress — to be applied to social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. “It is time to […]
As anyone who has ever dealt with hair loss will tell you, there’s no shortage of different treatment options out there claiming to be the end-all, be-all solution for sparse strands. And sure, while there are things that may help make hair stronger or look fuller, there’s only one treatment that’s FDA-approved to actually help […]
Though Tesla (TSLA) shareholders voted to reinstate Elon Musk’s pay package on Thursday afternoon, some investors and analysts told Yahoo Finance they remain skeptical. “The whole thing is a game of chicken and the shareholders blinked,” early Tesla investor Ibrahim AlHusseini said. “Fear of loss is a big motivator and Elon wielded that psychological mechanism […]
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