The Data Law That Nobody in Trenton Apparently Read

Most California senators supported this ADA lawsuit bill. It died anyway

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. For years, state Sen. Roger Niello has attempted to address what he sees as a persistent issue: predatory law firms and their disabled clients suing swaths of small businesses for disability access violations. It started when he heard about Scott Johnson, a quadriplegic []

ट्राफिक प्रहरीको कारबाहीबाट शनिबार मात्रै २० लाख बढी राजस्व संकलन

काठमाडौँ। पछिल्लो २४ घण्टामा दुई हजार जना सवारी चालक सवारी नियम उल्लंघनको कारबाहीमा परेका छन्। ट्राफिक प्रहरीका अनुसार उक्त कारबाहीबाट राज्यकोषमा रु २० लाख चार हजार १४ राजस्व दाखिला भएको छ। काठमाडौँ उपत्यका ट्राफिक प्रहरी कार्यालयका अनुसार मादकपदार्थ सेवन गरेका ६१, नियमविपरीत ‘राइड सेयरिङ’ गरेका १२९, संकेत बत्ती उल्लंघनकर्ता ६१ र तीव्र गतिमा सवारीसाधन हुइँक्याएका []

The many ways U.S. Hispanics describe their identity

Fifty years ago, Congress passed a law to improve data collection on people in the United States who have roots in Spanish-speaking countries – a group that came to be labeled “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in federal surveys and publications. The law was meant to help decision makers better understand the fast-growing Hispanic population, but it also []

Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show

Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press. DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a weapon of mass destruction. Agents and experts, however, said the tactic amounted to a gamble with public safety that potentially imperiled communities in and around Albuquerque and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public...