Tag: Law

These policies don't just hurt the marijuana industry. They hurt everyone and take away rightful powers from the states. (AP Photo/Mathew Sumner)

Illinois poised to make recreational marijuana legal

Grayce McCormick · June 1, 2019 1:52 pm

Beltway Confidential

Liberals sue so they can make doctors violate their religious beliefs on transgenderism

Nicole Russell · May 31, 2019 10:10 pm

FILE - In this May 17, 2019 file photo, Teresa Pettis, right, greets a passerby outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis. Pettis was one of a small number of abortion opponents protesting outside the clinic on the day the Missouri Legislature passed a sweeping measure banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood says Missouri's only abortion clinic could be closed by the end of the week because the state is threatening to not renew its license, which expires Friday, May 31.

Judge rules Missouri’s last abortion clinic will remain open — for now

Cassidy Morrison · May 31, 2019 8:45 pm

In this May 17, 2018, photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens stands off to the side before stepping up to the podium to deliver remarks to a small group of supporters near the capitol announcing the release of funds for the state's biodiesel program in Jefferson City, Mo.

National Security

Former Missouri governor’s new military assignment prompts Navy investigation

Diana Stancy Correll · May 31, 2019 7:40 pm

Police K-9 units search the woods for missing person Jennifer Dulos at Waveny Park in New Canaan, Conn. Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Dulos was reported missing Friday evening and police searched the area surrounding her neighborhood on Tuesday and the woods of Waveny Park on Wednesday.

Search intensifies as police find blood in home of missing Connecticut mother of five

Diana Stancy Correll · May 31, 2019 5:55 pm

The Finance Committee will hold a hearing on a bipartisan tax bill that would expand the child tax credit and includes business provisions

Nationwide injunctions: Obstruction by other means

Craig Trainor · May 31, 2019 4:05 am

Ashley Oleson, with the League of Women Voters of Maryland, carries signs of Maryland's districts, as nonpartisan groups against gerrymandering protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington.

The game behind Democrats’ redistricting lawsuits

Washington Examiner · May 31, 2019 4:05 am

Doug Collins (left) and Peter Strzok (right) are seen.

Doug Collins suspects ex-FBI leaker is Peter Strzok

Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin · May 30, 2019 11:34 pm

Juan Orlando Hernandez, the president of Honduras, waves to people after an event.

US investigating Honduran president for cocaine smuggling and money laundering

Anna Giaritelli · May 30, 2019 10:34 pm

Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Critics say the citizenship question on the census will inhibit responses from immigrant-heavy communities that are worried the information will be used to target them for possible deportation.

New evidence suggests Trump officials hid GOP motive for census query on citizenship

Melissa Quinn · May 30, 2019 8:10 pm

In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, photo, a police vehicle responds in New York. That long, droning police and ambulance siren that has become part of the soundtrack of New York City for generations could be changing. A pair of city lawmakers has proposed switching to the high-low, European-style wail heard on the streets of London and Paris.

NYPD: Gay man who claimed to be hate-crime victim was the aggressor

Zach Halaschak · May 30, 2019 7:16 pm

Robert Mueller and William Barr.

William Barr: Robert Mueller ‘could’ve reached a decision’ on obstruction

Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin · May 30, 2019 6:48 pm