Man texting while driving

California drivers who cross double lines to access carpool lanes and those who enter them alone to avoid traffic jams must pay $100 in fines, plus $390 in penalty assessments if they are caught. While these vehicle code violations might slow down traffic, they rarely if ever cause accidents or... Read More »

Small Business Administration chief Isabel Guzman attends a Cabinet meeting with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Philip Greer, a restaurateur who owns a cafe in Texas, has received a preliminary ruling in his favor after he filed suit against the Small Business Association in the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division. Greer alleges that he was discriminated against by the SBA through a recent aid... Read More »

Business help wanted sign

States across the country are deciding to no longer offer the additional $300 in federal pandemic unemployment benefits for their residents. The move will also end benefits entirely for those who were not traditionally eligible for unemployment insurance, such as gig-workers, freelancers, individuals who had exhausted their benefits, and those... Read More »

The firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, in 2010. (Trent Nelson/AP via NPR)

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against hearing the appeal of death row inmate Ernest Johnson, who is seeking death by firing squad instead of lethal injection. The conservative majority justices did not explain the court's decision. Before the Supreme Court denied Johnston's request for a hearing, a lower court... Read More »

AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File

Federal agents seized sixty-eight big cats from the private zoo Tiger King Park in Oklahoma a few days ago as part of a court-approved agreement. The US Department of Justice announced the seizure of the animals, stating it is part of the agreement by the Department of Justice against owners... Read More »

Matthew McConaughey spoke at the March For Our Lives rally in Austin in 2018.

Actor Matthew McConaughey, who has starred in movies like Dallas Buyers Club, Magic Mike, and Interstellar, is planning to run for governor of Texas. McConaughey, 51, was born in Uvalde, Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and children. In March, he said on a Texas podcast that... Read More »

Vilma Iris Peraza, 28, a migrant from Honduras, with her two children Adriana, 5, and Erick, 2, after being deported to Mexico.

An innocent mistake leads to a missed court date and a hardhearted order to remove a mother and her four-year-old son. In America this year, Independence Day will be written as 07/04/2021. Most of the world, however, would indicate it by writing 04/07/2021. A similar, understandable mix-up was the basis... Read More »

Mississippi Supreme Court during arguments over a lawsuit that challenges the state's initiative process and seeks to overturn a medical marijuana initiative that voters approved in November, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. (Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today)

Over 20 years ago, the State of Mississippi lost a Congressional seat, reducing its representation in Congress by one member. Now, the State Supreme Court has cited that lost seat as the reason to rule that a voter-approved medical marijuana initiative is unconstitutional. In a 6-3 decision issued on May... Read More »

May 13, 2021, file photo, although no longer required outside, a sign advises visitors to wear masks at the Denver Zoo in Denver. A number of states immediately embraced new guidelines from the CDC that say fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors or out in most situations. But other states - and some businesses _ are taking a wait-and-see attitude. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

The CDC recently released new guidance about mask-wearing saying that people who are fully vaccinated do not need to wear masks in most situations. According to changes listed on the CDC website, as of May 13, 2021, “Risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection is minimal for fully vaccinated people. The risk of... Read More »

People who knew shooting victim Neven Stanisic comfort each other at a makeshift memorial outside a King Soopers grocery store on March 25, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images via NBC News)

With an increase in mass shootings over the year such as the Colorado shootings which left six dead at a birthday party and ten dead at a Colorado grocery store, a rising number of businesses and institutions have turned to insurance policies covering them in the event of a mass... Read More »

Former President Donald Trump

On the heels of a sweeping civil probe, the offices of the New York Attorney General and the Manhattan District Attorney announced they are jointly investigating the Trump Organization for criminal charges. Former President Donald Trump's company the Trump Organization is under scrutiny by both the New York AG and... Read More »

Carole Baskin

The family of Carole Baskin’s first husband, Don Lewis, has hired celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro to investigate his 1997 disappearance. Some of Spiro’s clients include New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and rapper Jay-Z. Questions of Lewis’s disappearance have resurfaced after the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King” was released last... Read More »

Kevin Spacey attends a 2019 hearing in Nantucket, Mass (Steven Senne/Associated Press via The New York TimeS)

Sexual assault cases are growing steadily, with RAINN reporting every sixty-eight seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Among these reported horrific sexual assaults are numerous lawsuits made against celebrities. Traditionally, accusers are not always named in court papers in some circumstances if it protects them from further harassment or harm... Read More »

A Peloton Tread treadmill in use at the CES trade show in Las Vegas in 2018. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

High-end exercise machines implicated in one fatality and more than 70 injuries to children and pets on or near the equipment. Popular exercise brand Peloton dominated the fitness world throughout the pandemic and redefined how people worked out. Their popular internet-connected bikes and treadmills drew a cult-like following that propelled... Read More »

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, surrounded by other county elected officials, explains why he believes the results of the 2020 election were correct and everything else pushes "the Big Lie."

Arizona Republicans are pushing back against the statewide audit of over 2.1 million ballots after the most recent allegations of voter fraud. Over the weekend, Former President Trump reignited the spotlight on the Arizona audit after he made claims that the "entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been... Read More »