March 29, 2017 9:25 pm Published by admin Any day now, President Donald Trump is expected to sign legislation that will undo an Obama-era regulation about drug testing the jobless. Ever since unemployment insurance was created by the Social Security Act of 1935, states were forbidden from drug Read More
March 29, 2017 9:23 pm Published by admin Even if white and black men are the same heights and weights, people tend to perceive black men as taller, more muscular and heavier. So said a psychological survey, published Monday in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Read More
March 29, 2017 9:21 pm Published by admin It’s clear from the numbers. Google has a diversity problem. For the past few years, the company has publicly shared its workplace makeup in a report detailing the race, gender and ethnicity of each employee hired the previous year. Continue Read More
March 29, 2017 9:07 pm Published by admin Being a pedestrian in the United States is much more dangerous for black, Native American and Hispanic people than for whites. Blacks make up 12.2 percent of the population but accounted for 19.3 percent of all pedestrian deaths in the Read More
March 14, 2017 7:17 pm Published by admin New Mexico’s jails and prisons would face new limits on the use of solitary confinement for inmates under a bill approved 38-22 by the state House late Saturday. The proposal now heads to the Senate, as the legislative session moves Read More
March 14, 2017 7:15 pm Published by admin Tennessee became the first state in the nation on Monday to sue the federal government over refugee resettlement on the grounds of the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Continue reading.
March 14, 2017 7:12 pm Published by admin Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced Monday that state workers for executive branch agencies will now be able to receive paid leave when they have a child. Under the policy, executive branch employees will be eligible for six weeks of paid Read More
March 14, 2017 7:09 pm Published by admin A group of states renewed their effort on Monday to block President Donald Trump’s revised temporary ban on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, arguing that his executive order is the same as the first one that was halted Read More
March 14, 2017 7:06 pm Published by admin Dozens of 17-year-olds voted illegally across Wisconsin during last spring’s intense presidential primary, apparently wrongly believing they could cast ballots if they turned 18 ahead of the November general election, according to a new state report. Continue reading.
March 14, 2017 7:02 pm Published by admin In April 2000, 23-year-old Floyd Bledsoe sat in an Oskaloosa, Kansas, courtroom awaiting the verdict in his first-degree murder trial in the death of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, Zetta Camille Arfmann. Throughout the trial, he maintained his innocence. But the jury Read More