Alabama’s State Legislature voted to legalize medical marijuana late Thursday, becoming the most recent state to approve its use amid ongoing talks over revamping cannabis laws. The measure will create a medical cannabis commission to regulate, license and oversee distribution of medical marijuana. Doctors can prescribe medical marijuana for several conditions including cancer, a terminal…… MORE
A source close to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tells CNN that she will not be running for reelection. Bottoms has scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. Friday at Atlanta’s City Hall. This story is breaking and will be updated.… MORE
A triple amputee war veteran who was indicted last year along with Steve Bannon and two others, in an alleged scheme to defraud donors to a crowdfunding effort to build a private US-Mexico border wall, was indicted Thursday for filing false information on his 2019 federal income tax returns, the Justice Department announced. Brian Kolfage,…… MORE
Alleged US Capitol rioter Anthony Antonio was hooked on Fox News and developed “Foxitis,” his lawyer said Thursday in a virtual hearing interrupted multiple times by another defendant’s profane outbursts. Antonio, his lawyer Joseph Hurley said, had lost his job at the beginning of the pandemic and for the next six months watched Fox News…… MORE
Two Democrats on the Federal Election Commission are criticizing Republican members after the commission deadlocked and did not take action against former President Donald Trump‘s campaign related to the $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. “Because of Trump’s apparent role in orchestrating the transaction, we supported (the…… MORE
Unaccompanied migrant children now spend an average of around 24 hours in Border Patrol custody, a Biden administration official said Thursday, down from the more than 100 hours that CNN reported in March. US law permits children to remain in these jail-like border facilities for only 72 hours before being transferred to the custody of…… MORE
A Capitol riot defendant has asked a federal judge for permission to call his mother, his Capitol riot co-defendant, on Mother’s Day. Eric Munchel, the so-called “zip tie man,” and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, are charged in the January 6 Capitol riot, with prosecutors alleging they picked up zip ties inside the building and went…… MORE
South Carolina is joining Montana in ending federal pandemic unemployment benefits for its residents next month. The Republican governors of both states say the enhanced jobless programs are dissuading people from returning to the workforce and are creating labor shortages. They are the first two states to halt participation in the historic federal expansion of…… MORE
Almost a million people signed up for 2021 health insurance coverage on the federal Affordable Care Act exchange during the first 10 weeks of President Joe Biden’s special enrollment period, according to data released Thursday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s well over double the number who turned to the exchange in…… MORE
The Biden administration is weighing unfreezing $1 billion in Iranian funds that the country could use for humanitarian relief, amid the negotiations for the US to reenter the 2015 nuclear deal and bring Iran back into compliance with its terms. It is not clear whether the release of the funds would occur unilaterally, but one…… MORE
