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Elton John calls US legalisation of cannabis ‘one of the greatest mistakes of all time’

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy British singer-songwriter Elton John has …

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3 weeks ago

USC and Lincoln Riley hope to halt out-of-state exodus on early signing day

LA Times

USC coach Lincoln Riley walks on the sideline during a win over Nebraska at the Coliseum on Nov. 16. The exodus that would define this cycle for USC started almost six months ahead of Wednesday’s early signing day, just as its recruiting efforts were rolling and its 2025 class had climbed into the top five. Meanwhile, 15% of USC’s offers …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why are foreign investors exiting India? 3 reasons behind stock market selloff

India Today

Foreign Portfolio Investors are pulling out of Indian markets at a pace not seen in recent times. Dr. VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, breaks it down: “The relentless FPI selling has been triggered by the cumulative impact of three factors: one, the high valuations in India; two, concerns regarding the earnings downgrade; and three, the Trump …

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RBI introduces framework for reclassification of FPI to FDI

Live Mint

The Reserve Bank of India on Monday introduced a streamlined operational framework to allow foreign portfolio investors to convert their investments to foreign direct investment when equity holdings in Indian companies surpass the prescribed 10% limit. The RBI’s new framework mandates that this reclassification be finalized within five trading days following the transaction that breaches the limit, subject to approvals …

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1 month, 1 week ago

RBI, Sebi issue framework for reclassifying FPI investments as FDI

New Indian Express

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board have directed foreign portfolio investors to obtain necessary approvals from the government and concurrence from the investee companies in cases of acquisition of equity holdings beyond the prescribed limits. The direction better aligns with the Fema rules, the regulators said in separate notifications Monday and helps lift the …

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2 months ago

Can $7-an-hour nannies spur a baby boom? One city aims to find out

LA Times

Only a few children play at Dochang Elementary School in Seoul as Principal Lee Eun-sook watches. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon has billed the service as a “win-win” for migrant workers and South Korean parents. The average number of babies a South Korean woman has over her lifetime has been steadily falling for decades, last year hitting record low of 0.72, …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump signals support for reclassifying pot as a less dangerous drug, in line with Harris’ position

Associated Press

▶ Follow the AP’s live coverage and analysis as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet for their first debate. WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has signaled support for a potentially historic federal policy shift to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, putting his position in line with that of his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. The commonality reflects a major shift …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Garlic– Vegetable Or Spice In MP Krishi Upaj Mandi Law? High Court Upholds Order Reclassifying Garlic As Vegetable In Bye Laws

Live Law

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in a recent order discussed the classification of garlic–as a vegetable or as a spice–under the state's agricultural produce market law. The high court allowed a review plea filed by petitioner–Aaloo Pyaj Commission Agents which trades in garlic, and set aside an earlier order that curtailed the authority of the Managing …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

MAGA spy network of gov't workers feeds names of colleagues who might resist Trump: report

Raw Story

Legal experts have raised red flags repeatedly about Project 2025, a plan backed by the extreme-right Heritage Foundation to help Donald Trump — or any other future Republican president — purge the federal government of rank-and-file employees who will follow the law over the orders of the president and institute Christian nationalist principles, among other things. "With a $100,000 grant …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Overturns Federal Bump Stock Ban

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court Friday overturned a federal agency’s rule banning bump stocks, the devices used in some of America’s deadliest mass killings carried out by lone shooters. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle is a machinegun because with a single pull of the trigger, a shooter can fire continuous shots without any human input beyond maintaining forward pressure.” The …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

A mother and daughter went missing 20 years ago. Police are still searching for their remains

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7 months ago

Top U.S. drug agency a notable holdout in Biden's push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions

Hindustan Times

In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody could take notes. Top U.S. drug agency a notable holdout in Biden's push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions Over the next half hour, …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Joe Biden says ‘No one should be in jail merely for using marijuana’ as US proposes reclassifying the drug as low-risk

Hindustan Times

US President Joe Biden's administration formally proposed on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion. Biden administration moves to reclassify marijuana as less dangerous drug The proposal to reclassify cannabis was unveiled by the Biden administration at the end of April and the Justice Department …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Biden’s plan to reschedule marijuana may finally end ‘Reefer Madness’

LA Times

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency plans to reclassify marijuana from the most restrictive category — Schedule I, up there with heroin — down to Schedule III, in the company of testosterone and Tylenol with codeine. It’s ridiculous that we lack the answers, especially considering that 24 states plus the District of Columbia have made marijuana legal for adult recreational use …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Reclassifying marijuana is not decriminalization, but is a welcome step in that direction

LA Times

The news Tuesday that the Justice Department plans to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug is most welcome. Moving the substance from Schedule I, for the most dangerous and abused drugs, to Schedule III as the DOJ proposes, wouldn’t go that far, but it would be a meaningful step in the right direction. Americans have scoffed at marijuana prohibitions …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden’s historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters

Associated Press

PHOENIX — President Joe Biden may eventually ban TikTok, but he’s moving to give something back to the young people who dominate the popular social media app — a looser federal grip on marijuana. Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, Biden has made a number of election year …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

New rule strengthening federal job protections could counter Trump promises to remake the government

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The government’s chief human resources agency issued a new rule on Thursday making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees, hoping to head off former President Donald Trump’s promises to radically remake the workforce along ideological lines if he wins back the White House in November. AP AUDIO: New rule strengthening federal job protections could counter Trump …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Are potatoes a vegetable or grain? Why lawmakers are fighting over how they're classified

Salon

Every five years, the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA publish the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a collection of evidence-based recommendations to promote overall health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. That said, lawmakers, including 14 senators, have spoken out on the potential change, saying that any modification to potatoes’ current classification under the …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Trump wants to fire thousands of government workers. Liberals are preparing to fight back if he wins

LA Times

The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s chief human resources agency, has proposed a rule against reclassifying tens of thousands of workers, which would make it easier to fire them, as Donald Trump wants to do. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s chief human resources agency, proposed a rule against reclassifying tens of thousands of workers, which …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Senate Democrats Urge Biden To Deschedule Marijuana Entirely

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A group of 12 Senate Democrats on Monday urged the Biden administration to remove marijuana from the list of harmful drugs outlawed by the federal government, arguing that simply reclassifying it as less dangerous would be insufficient. In the letter, addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Anne Milgram, the senators said a …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Supreme Court to consider challenge to federal bump stock ban

CNN

CNN — The Supreme Court agreed to take up a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that essentially allow shooters to fire semiautomatic rifles more rapidly, discharging potentially hundreds of bullets per minute. Under federal law a “machine gun” is interpreted as “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Fungal outbreak threatens tricoloured bat with extinction in US

The Hindu

US federal officials announced plans on Tuesday to list the tricoloured bat as endangered — the second US bat species recommended for the designation this year as a fungal disease ravages their populations. “White-nose syndrome is decimating hibernating bat species like the tricoloured bat at unprecedented rates,” said Martha Williams, the agency director. The service is deeply committed to continuing …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Fungal outbreak threatens tricolored bat with extinction

Associated Press

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials announced plans Tuesday to list the tricolored bat as endangered — the second U.S. bat species recommended for the designation this year as a fungal disease ravages their populations. “White-nose syndrome is decimating hibernating bat species like the tricolored bat at unprecedented rates,” said Martha Williams, the agency director. The service is deeply committed …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Michigan AP D3 hoops Player of Year: Flint’s Carmelo Harris

Associated Press

For the fourth consecutive season, a Flint Beecher point guard has been named the Michigan Associated Press Division 3 Player of the Year in boys basketball. The 6-foot Carmelo Harris received the honor in voting by AP’s panel of eight sportswriters from around the state. First-year Beecher coach Marquise Gray, who played at Michigan State, said Harris is the victim …

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Elton John calls US legalisation of cannabis ‘one of the greatest mistakes of all time’

USC and Lincoln Riley hope to halt out-of-state exodus on early signing day

Why are foreign investors exiting India? 3 reasons behind stock market selloff

RBI introduces framework for reclassification of FPI to FDI

RBI, Sebi issue framework for reclassifying FPI investments as FDI

Can $7-an-hour nannies spur a baby boom? One city aims to find out

Trump signals support for reclassifying pot as a less dangerous drug, in line with Harris’ position

Garlic– Vegetable Or Spice In MP Krishi Upaj Mandi Law? High Court Upholds Order Reclassifying Garlic As Vegetable In Bye Laws

MAGA spy network of gov't workers feeds names of colleagues who might resist Trump: report

Supreme Court Overturns Federal Bump Stock Ban

A mother and daughter went missing 20 years ago. Police are still searching for their remains

Top U.S. drug agency a notable holdout in Biden's push to loosen federal marijuana restrictions

Joe Biden says ‘No one should be in jail merely for using marijuana’ as US proposes reclassifying the drug as low-risk

Editorial: Biden’s plan to reschedule marijuana may finally end ‘Reefer Madness’

Editorial: Reclassifying marijuana is not decriminalization, but is a welcome step in that direction

Biden’s historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters

New rule strengthening federal job protections could counter Trump promises to remake the government

Are potatoes a vegetable or grain? Why lawmakers are fighting over how they're classified

Trump wants to fire thousands of government workers. Liberals are preparing to fight back if he wins

Senate Democrats Urge Biden To Deschedule Marijuana Entirely

Supreme Court to consider challenge to federal bump stock ban

Fungal outbreak threatens tricoloured bat with extinction in US

Fungal outbreak threatens tricolored bat with extinction

Michigan AP D3 hoops Player of Year: Flint’s Carmelo Harris