Herald columnist was wrong when it comes to pressing need for indy Neil Mackay seemed to evoke the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign mantra “it’s the economy stupid” and to draw a sharp distinction ... 04/24/2024 - 6:13 am | View Link
US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts across Amercia. A noncompete agreement typically ... 04/24/2024 - 5:30 am | View Link
Parties differ on handling of death penalty issue Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday clashed over the death penalty a day after the Constitutional Court heard oral arguments about its ... 04/24/2024 - 5:01 am | View Link
MPs save Unra in last-minute fight over merger The lawmakers, however, supported a proposal, moved by MPs Denis Oguzu (Maracha; FDC) and Muhammad Nsereko (Kampala Centra; Ind), to amend the 2006 Unra Act to grant the minister responsible for road ... 04/23/2024 - 6:50 pm | View Link
Lawsuit abolishing City of Mableton dismissed, city officials say A Cobb County judge granted the city's motion to dismiss the case on Monday, April 22. The judge's decision was made after hearing oral arguments in March. 04/22/2024 - 10:55 am | View Link
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November.
Defendants in Colorado sexual assault cases soon will be prohibited from using what a victim was wearing or a victim’s hairstyle as evidence of consent.
Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, who is the acting governor this week, signed House Bill 1072 Wednesday afternoon. The bipartisan legislation is aimed at strengthening protections for sex assault victims in court by expanding the rape shield law.
John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically impossible to know with absolute certainty how he would feel about the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University.
But the question emerges after New York Times columnist John McWhorter, a music humanities and linguistics professor at Columbia, wrote that he was forced to stop students from playing Cage’s 4’33”—a seminal work that’s effectively four minutes and 33 seconds of silence (though Cage-heads might disagree with that description)—because of the demonstrations.