California’s decision to postpone revoking thousands of immigrant truck drivers’ licenses could cost the state tens of millions in federal funding. After the state announced it would hold off the cancellations to comply with a class-action lawsuit, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the federal government would not wait to pullContinue Reading
An appellate court is scheduled to consider a temporary hold on a first-in-the-nation 11% tax on passenger cruise ships sailing to the Hawaiian islands — but not before the state begins collecting the tax. The “green fee” to fund climate change mitigation is set to take effect on Jan. 1.Continue Reading
A former U.S. Department of Agriculture employee will spend nearly two years in prison for her insider role in a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food assistance fraud scheme that bilked the government out of more than $66 million. The sentence is a fraction of the decades in felony charges sheContinue Reading
The Department of Justice deadline to release all relevant files in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation has come and gone without the agency fully completing its task. This has the sponsors of the bill requiring them to do so threatening to call Attorney General Pam Bondi before a judge. The EpsteinContinue Reading