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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is cracking down on leaks of information to the news media, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying prosecutors once again will have authority to use subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to hunt for government officials who make “unauthorized disclosures” to journalists. New regulations announced by Bondi in a [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have released a new proposal to allow the testing of self-driving heavy duty trucks on public roads. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles announced proposed regulations to allow the testing of self-driving vehicles more than 10,001 pounds, opening the door for companies to test self-driving technology with previously prohibited [...]
LUCKEY (AP) — State authorities plan to test the groundwater supply across a village near a former northwest Ohio weapons plant after a newspaper investigation found high levels of radioactivity in samples taken at a school, athletic field, library and other sites. The Army Corps of Engineers has been removing tons of contaminated soil from [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the country after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, federal officials said last week. The records in a federal student database maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been terminated in recent weeks. Judges [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing an executive order that a labor union says would cancel collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that a key part of President Donald Trump’s March 27 order can’t be enforced at roughly [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat. The department last week said it was withdrawing a rule proposed in August after three years of development. Officials with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection [...]
The company that owned the railcar that caused the East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won’t have to help pay for the $600 million settlement agreed to by Norfolk Southern and residents. An Ohio jury last week decided that GATX isn’t liable for the settlement even though the failure of a bearing on its railcar [...]
The judge overseeing the rewriting of the college sports rulebook threw a potentially deal-wrecking roadblock into the mix last week, insisting parties in the $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit redo the part of the proposed settlement involving roster limits that many schools are already putting in motion. “Any disruption that may occur is a problem of [...]
LONDON (AP) — European Union watchdogs this week fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules. The European Commission imposed a $571 million fine on Apple for preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The commission, [...]
The Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center has issued its first strategic report since the center’s creation in 2019 by an executive order signed by Gov. Mike DeWine. The report, which outlines the center’s work to reduce drug use, drug manufacturing and trafficking, drug-related violent crime and violence and drug-related health consequences, recorded a 14 percent drop [...]