US President Donald Trump signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act into law Wednesday, a measure to combat the opioid crisis by reducing drug demand through education, awareness and prevention efforts, enhancing treatment and recovery, and cutting off the supply from traffickers. The act has been deemed “the single largest legislative package addressing a single drug crisis [...]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law America’s Water Infrastructure Act, which seeks to “provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources and authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the .” The law purports to benefit nearly every state by authorizing “construction [...]
US President Donald Trump’s administration is urging Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to stop the Honduran “caravan” that has accumulated thousands more migrants while making the trek through South and Central America to the US border, saying the US will cut off aid to the countries if the immigrants make it to the US border. Honduran migrants began [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas sentenced Texas citizen Marq Perez to 24 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for setting fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque south of Houston, in January 2017. A jury convicted Perez in July of committing a hate crime in the burning of the [...]
Egypt’s top appeals court, the Court of Cassation, on Monday upheld former president Mohammed Morsi’s three-year prison sentence for insulting the judiciary. The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Morsi and 19 others in December for inciting hatred through TV and media comments. Morsi and other defendants appealed, but the court rejected the appeal and ordered the sentence [...]
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging insulin manufacturers Sanofi-Aventis US, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly deceptively raised insulin prices. The complaint alleges the manufacturers raised prices and gave rebates to the pharmacy benefit managers, which were then supposed to go to their [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday sentenced Guy Vallerius, also known as “Oxymonster” on the dark web, to 20 years in prison for charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering. The South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force led the investigation that uncovered Vallerius’ [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in two cases, one of which challenges the detention provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and the other concerning maritime asbestos injuries. In the first case, Nielson v. Preap, the court is asked to determine: “Whether a criminal alien becomes exempt from mandatory detention under if, after the [...]
A judge for the Cole County Circuit Court of Missouri held Tuesday that the affidavit and advertisement requirements of the Missouri’s voter identification law were unconstitutional. The law, HB 1631 , was passed in 2016 to require that voters present an acceptable form of ID at the voting ballot. The law provides several ID options, [...]
Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the US Supreme Court Tuesday to hear oral argument in two cases challenging the mandatory sentencing enhancement provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). Both cases concern the “mandatory minimum 15-year prison sentence on any federal firearms offender who previously has been convicted of three ‘violent’ felonies.” The previous provision imposed a [...]
