The city of Chicago has settled a police brutality lawsuit with a woman who lost an unborn child after being repeatedly shocked by a Taser-wielding officer. According to the Chicago Tribune, the award is still pending the approval of City Council – a requirement in cases when litigants are due to receive more than $100,000.
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California is at the forefront of an effort to restore some of the internet privacy protections revoked by Congress earlier in the year. Back in March, web providers began begging Washington to roll back Obama-era internet privacy rules. Several weeks later, the petitioning paid off, leading to a reversal of Federal Communications Commission regulations on
Just two days into Donald Trump’s ‘Made in America’-themed week in Washington, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would issue an additional 15,000 visas to foreign workers. Despite working tirelessly to curb legal and illegal immigration to the United States, the administration’s decision to offer an excess of H-2B visas was apparently made out
A federal appeals court dealt a blow to activists’ attempts to override the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision not to ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered its ruling on procedural grounds, opining that the coalition, led by the Pesticide Action Network North America, hadn’t followed proper protocol. The three-judge panel
Donald Trump’s hopes of decimating predecessor Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act were seemingly dashed after two Republican senators defected from the party line Monday. The joint announcement made by Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas places conservatives two votes under the threshold needed to begin debate on a proposed repeal and
A study released this month by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the Climate Accountability Institute claims that 71% of the greenhouse gases released since 1988 were the output of a mere 100 companies. Out of those 100 companies, a slim 25 were responsible for half of the world’s total greenhouse gas pollution in that same time period.