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The Obama Administration is looking to show it is taking a tough stand on illegal immigration. The statistics announced by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on October 6 showed 392,000 deportations in 2010, up 70 percent compared to 2008, the last year of the Bush administration. The Associated Press reports that the focus is on a “by the book approach” that attempts to hone in on criminals for deportation. The statistics from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) say that 195,000 of those deported were convicted criminals....

Is John Edwards’ jury deadlocked? As jurors reconvened on Tuesday for the seventh day of deliberations, some commentators are starting to believe that this may be the case. The jury’s inability to come to a decision suggests that the votes are split, or at the very least, some jurors can’t quite wrap their heads around complicated federal election laws. Though this seems like a good thing for Edwards, it may not get him off the hook....

Americans are growing more and more aware of the dangers of distracted driving, especially driving while texting or talking on the phone. But now a new distracted danger looms: emailing and/or texting while walking – distracted walking. It almost sounds like a punch line, and the recent report from the Los Angeles Times certainly starts out like a techie joke. Woman in Silicon Valley walking down the street, texting … walks into a sign pole....

If you are accused of theft at work, try to stay calm and to sort out what is happening. What steps to take will depend on what is going on in your specific situation. Have you been fired? Have you been charged with a crime? Did you do the things you are accused of? Have you been asked to take a lie detector test or submit to some questioning? The context of the accusation makes a big difference....

The first thing you may have thought about when starting a business is your business name. Choosing the right business name is critical. It is often a customer’s first exposure to your store, service or product. Likely, you will want to strike a balance between a descriptive name and one that is truly unique. To help you craft the best business name, take note of these five considerations: Want more business ideas or have some to share?...

Figuring out how to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace may be overwhelming and uncomfortable, but it certainly beats landing in middle of a lawsuit. A prime example in the news this week: the San Diego mayor’s sexual harassment scandal. As more alleged victims step forward, employers may want to take a more critical look at their own actions, their employees’ actions, and their workplace policies. Here are seven tips to help prevent sexual harassment at work:...

Does your child have an airsoft gun? Watch out for eye injuries. Airsoft guns have risen in popularity in the last few years. As with any gun, airsoft guns potentially could cause injuries, especially eye injuries. In the last two years, eye injuries caused by airsoft guns have risen 500 percent, hurting over 3,000 children in 2012 alone. Airsoft Guns Airsoft guns are not as innocent as they sound. Designed to resemble real machine guns, rifles, or handguns, airsoft guns fire actual pellets via gas, spring, or electrical systems....

A new report suggests that medical device company Medtronic hid its spinal implant’s cancer risk from the medical community. Amplify, Medtronic’s newest spinal implant, contains a genetically engineered protein that promotes bone growth. A 2009 report detailing the results of a large clinical study makes no mention of the product’s significant cancer risk. Medtronic paid the paper’s authors $10 million in 2010 alone. The company claims that there was no statistically significant spinal implant cancer risk, reports the Journal Sentinel....

The weekly rundown of crime stories that blur the lines between idiot and genius, justified and not so much, freedom and incarceration… you be the judge. Live your dreams. Betty Lichtenstein just wanted to thank all the little people that made this possible. She’s not a “licensed” or “trained” nurse, but she was the “Connecticut Nursing Association”’s 2008 Nurse of the Year. Just ask anyone who attended the awards dinner Betty spent $2,000 staging for the group she invented....

A central tenet of yoga practice is mindfulness. And for conscientious yoga instructors, there’s a way to bring legal peace of mind to your practice. While yoga injury lawsuits are rare, they do occur. Having liability insurance for your yoga practice could help keep you and your business safe. The Need for Liability Insurance Yoga instructors have a commitment to ethical and spiritual growth and development, but every now and then, the physical may not be able to keep up, resulting in muscle, joint, or bone injuries....

A dog is a man’s best friend, and cats will keep you company. But that doesn’t mean they don’t misbehave sometimes. If your pet gets out of control and bites or attacks someone, there might be a lawsuit in your future. But how can you tell if the incident is your fault or if it’s something you couldn’t control? Lawmakers have mostly figured out the answer to that question. While it might be better for everyone if dogs didn’t bite and cats didn’t scratch, animal-related injuries do happen, so it pays to know how to deal with it....

When it comes to drowsy driving lawsuits, are jurors asleep at the wheel? Some lawyers who’ve tried such cases say victims often face roadblocks when it comes to proof. “If you are going to try and make fatigue – sleepiness – a criminal legal issue in a motor vehicle accident, you have a lot, lot more to prove,” attorney Patrick Bruno told the Associated Press. Bruno successfully defended an alleged drowsy bus driver in a manslaughter and negligent homicide case involving a crash that killed 15 people....

The FAA claimed that under current regulations, no commercial drone could be flown without airworthiness certification by the FAA. And the FAA wasn’t issuing these certifications for any purposes other than research or experimentation. However, in March, a federal administrative court struck down this rule because the FAA had failed to follow federal rulemaking procedure. FAA Attempts to Close Drone Loophole Much of the issues the FAA has had regulating drones is that it only has one advisory rule on model aircraft between companies and unregulated commercial drone use....

Consumers should avoid using certain water-based face paint products because bacterial contamination could case adverse skin reactions, according to an announcement this week from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The affected face paint products were distributed by “Oriental Trading Co.” a company located in Omaha, Nebraska, and come in packages labeled “Face Paint.” According to the FDA, the face paint products were manufactured in China and are being voluntarily recalled by Fun Express Inc....

One day last year, Alex Boston, 14, walked into her Georgia school a normal teenage girl. But soon, things would change. Her classmates were making rude comments and staring. She didn’t know what was going on. As it turns out, two of her classmates had created a fake Facebook profile in her name. They doctored photos and implied that she smoked pot; they made obscene and racist comments on other friends’ pages....

In a bombshell op-ed published in the New York Times, an official in President Trump’s administration asserted that “senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” And then admitted this: That reference to a rather obscure Constitutional provision sent the masses scrambling for answers – so much so that Google searches for “25th Amendment” outpaced searches for “Kim Kardashian....

Every day can be beer day if you believe in yourself. But International Beer Day this Friday can give casual beer consumers a chance to cheers with connoisseurs and cicerones over the latest and greatest in IPAs, sours, or standard lagers. It also opens the door for overconsumption. Part of celebrating beer is not drinking too many beers – after all, after a few too many you can’t enjoy the subtle hop complexities in a well-executed pilsner....

After Edward Snowden’s revelations on NSA spying, many of us had to adjust our expectations of privacy when it came to email. Perhaps everything online, even private emails, is public. But there appears to be some resistance to that idea. Key parts of the Patriot Act covering bulk email collection expired last week, and a federal judge says the Yahoo must face a class action lawsuit for reading its customers emails....

Paul Manafort, once a mainstay in the Republican Party, aiding in four of the last five Republican presidential campaigns, was found guilty in a federal jury trial on eight counts: five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts, and two counts of bank fraud. A mistrial was declared in 10 other counts: three counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, and seven counts of bank fraud and bank fraud conspiracy....

As the old saying goes, when fighting monsters, a person has to be careful not to become a monster themselves. However, when a person works for a company that forces them to watch videos that are nothing less than monstrous, the company might be responsible for protecting employees’ mental well-beings. A recent lawsuit by two Microsoft employees against their employer is premised on that neglected responsibility. The two employees are suing because they were pushed too far into the belly of the beast and emerged on the other side with PTSD....