May 2, 2016 States flouting post-9/11 ID law, giving cards to illegal immigrants that mirror licenses After the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the REAL ID Act to prevent foreign nationals from fraudulently obtaining a U.S. driver's license -- by requiring any ID issued based on unverifiable foreign documents look different in "design or color" from an official driver's license. But more than a decade later, several state and local governments are openly flouting the law, issuing ID cards that are barely distinguishable from a bona fide driver's license.
May 2, 2016 Vermonter earning $300,000 put on Medicaid and can’t get off Steve Cairns has had enough. The Stowe, Vt., tax preparer has worked 14 years to help clients dutifully pay taxes. In the past year, however, Cairns learned two of his clients -- through no fault of their own -- are on Medicaid despite earning $300,000 and $90,000, respectively.
May 2, 2016 Growing numbers seek faith-based alternative to ObamaCare With just over 100,000 members, Medi-Share is part of a small, but growing, movement of health care-sharing ministries -- emerging as an ObamaCare alternative.
May 2, 2016 Hawaii’s $205M ObamaCare system on life support, critics fear ‘complete waste’ Federal taxpayers dumped more than $205 million into Hawaii's ObamaCare insurance exchange, but after a steady downward spiral the once-highly praised Hawaii Health Connector is on life support.
May 2, 2016 Bid to force ObamaCare expansion on states backfires, triggers lawsuit Trying to force an ObamaCare expansion onto Florida by cutting funding for an existing Medicaid program has backfired on President Obama.
May 2, 2016 NYC in talks to keep Times Square billboards after federal law called for lights out Times Square -- the "crossroads of the world" -- is beautiful just as it is, thank you. That's New York City's official response following reports that the city was facing pressure under a federal law to remove its iconic oversized billboards from the site, perhaps best known as the backdrop to the country's New Year's Eve celebrations.
May 2, 2016 States wasting millions by keeping ineligible recipients on ObamaCare’s Medicaid rolls, critics say States are wasting millions of taxpayer dollars under ObamaCare's massive Medicaid expansion by failing to regularly check the eligibility of program recipients, critics charge.
May 2, 2016 Holder announces changes to asset forfeiture program Attorney General Eric Holder is curbing the federal government's role in a civil asset forfeiture program involving local and state law enforcement agencies.
May 2, 2016 Washington state attorney general calls for raising smoking age to 21 Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson is pushing a proposal that would make his state the first in the country to raise the legal smoking age to 21.
May 2, 2016 Colorado lawmakers look to ban asset seizures without convictions A freshman Colorado state senator wants to stop police from seizing assets unless the owner is convicted of a crime.
