Illinois bans contracts with companies that pay disabled workers below minimum wage
Illinois will not allow state agencies to hold contracts with vendors that pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage.
Illinois will not allow state agencies to hold contracts with vendors that pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage.
Volvo is recalling more than 460,000 vehicles globally because of faulty airbag inflators, which after prolonged exposure to heat and humidity could pose a mortal danger when activated."The driver's air bag inflato...
Joel Greenberg, a former Florida county tax collector and an associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), is requesting another sentencing delay as he continues to cooperate with authorities on multiple cases....
President Biden on Tuesday said the United States sat at an "inflection point" in terms of economic competitiveness, arguing passage of his agenda is necessary to ensure adversaries do not surpass the nation.Biden...
President Biden on Tuesday said the United States sat at an “inflection point” in terms of economic competitiveness, arguing passage of his agenda is necessary to ensure adversaries do not surpass the nation.Biden traveled to Michigan as...
Republican voters are increasingly breaking with corporate America over political issues, according to a poll from the Public Affairs Council and Morning Consult released this week.The survey found that 51 percent of Democrats trust the political...
President Biden’s breathtaking $5 trillion infrastructure agenda — about $50,000 in debt for each American family — is stalling on broad skepticism on both the goals and means of spending that money. There’s bipartisan agreement on at least some of...
About 1,440 workers at four U.S.-based Kellogg cereal plants went on strike Tuesday, grinding the company's production to a halt, ...
Florida developer Stephen Alford will go on trial on Dec. 6 over accusations of organizing an extortion plot associated with the federal sex investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the The Associated Press reported. Alford...
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) said that the media are an "evil" force in America during recent remarks that were recorded on video."That television set is a one-eyed devil sitting right in your living r...
An oil spill off the coast of southern California has sent up to 144,000 gallons from an oceanic pipeline into the sea, closing beaches and serving as a reminder of how U.S. energy sources can be calamitous to the environ...
A Florida medical examiner confirmed on Tuesday that a body that was found in a wooded area close to an apartment complex in Orlando, Fla. was 19-year-old Miya Marcano.“A positive identification of a female whose body was recovered in a wooded area...
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday signaled he may cancel the chamber's October recess to allow more time to resolve the stalemate over raising the nation’s borrowing authority.“We’re going to stay here until we get this...
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's (D) campaign is targeting fans of Taylor Swift with new digital ads highlighting GOP gubernatorial opponent Glenn Youngkin's role in music mogul Scooter Braun's purchase of Swi...
The British government is launching an independent inquiry into "syst...
A California state park has been renamed to reflect the name used by the Indigenous Yurok people.The California State Park and Recreation Commission ...
The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Tuesday opened a Hispanic Community Center in a Texas border town, as the party ramps up its Latino outreach efforts ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
The Iowa legislature on Tuesday rejected the state's first redistricting proposal, punting the authority back to a nonpartisan agency to draw another map.The state Senate voted 32 to 18 to block ...
San Diego will pay a former city worker nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a Black employee who said he was discriminated against because of his race and complaints about working conditions.Demetris Wimbe...
An actor who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $650 million by falsely claiming to have deals with major media companies agreed to plead guilty to one count of securities fraud...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled against four Democratic-leaning states that mounted a legal challenge to the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction created by Republicans’ 2017 tax law.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of...
A mother-son duo from New York have been charged with aiding in theft of a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) office during the Jan. 6 riot.Maryann Mooney-Rondon, 55, and her son, Rafael Rondon, 23, of Watertown, N.Y., ...
President Biden is slated to deliver remarks Tuesday afternoon on his economic agenda in Howell, Mich.The event is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.
Leading counterintelligence officials issued a memo to all of the CIA's global stations saying that a concerning number of U.S. informants were being captured and executed.The CIA's counterintelligence mission cent...
President Biden met Tuesday with nearly a dozen vulnerable House Democrats as he and party leaders race to adopt his massive economic agenda before month's end.Democrats consider enactment of Biden's two-piece dome...