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The FBI arrested a Santa Ana man March 30 after he was suspected of accepting kickbacks from sober living homes in a process known as “body brokering”. Darius Jarell Moore, 27, was charged with one count of solicitation and receipt of payment, a federal charge, for referring a patient into a recovery home or clinical treatment facility. According to the criminal complaint filed with the […]

The Victorian government has implemented Australia’s first Gender Equality Act that will require public sector employers to “promote and advance” gender equality in the workplace. The legislation (pdf), which came into effect on March 31, will see the public sector—including local councils and universities—“close the gender pay gap, improve gender equality at all levels of

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has declared that “Easter is good to go” with the most severe lockdown restrictions due to end at 12 p.m. local time on Thursday, the day before the Easter holidays begin. “After discussions … the lockdown will be lifted from 12 noon today,” Palaszczuk told reporters on Thursday. The premier hopes

Before a skeptical Supreme Court on March 31, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) defended its rules that preclude paying student-athletes. The Biden administration sided with the student-athletes during telephonic oral arguments that ran 94 minutes instead of the allotted 60. The case is actually two cases heard together: National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston,

A woman from Long Island, New York, has tested positive for COVID-19 after receiving both doses of the Moderna vaccine. Melanie Rosen, a secretary who went to pay respects to a friend whose father passed away, believes she might have caught the virus at the gathering, PIX11 reported. “There was probably at least 10 family members there,”

A group of around 25 conservative Maine Republicans has split from the state Republican Party to form a new grassroots caucus, days after the state GOP decided against censuring Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for her vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. John DeVeau, who chairs the Aroostook County Republican Committee—one

A Texas bill that aims to purge elements of critical race theory from public schools is advancing through the state legislature, in the wake of a growing trend of Republican states pushing back against the race-centered ideology. Introduced on Monday by Republican state Rep. James White, the House Bill 4093 does not explicitly call out

Huntington Beach city council will continue to meet virtually rather than convening in chambers due to Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz’s refusal to wear a mask. It moved to do so during a March 29 meeting, where the five councilmembers in attendances voted to stick with Zoom meetings. Ortiz was absent during the vote, after

In a speech in Pittsburgh, President Joe Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, consisting of traditional projects like roads and bridges as well as funding to combat climate change and money for the care economy, a service industry. To pay for it all—corporate tax hikes. “Today I’m proposing a plan for the nation that

ROME—Italy ordered two Russian Embassy officials expelled Wednesday and arrested an Italian Navy captain on spying charges after police caught the officer allegedly giving classified documents to one of the Russians in exchange for money. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told a joint session of the Italian Parliament’s foreign relations committees that the documentation concerned