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The controversial facial-recognition firm Clearview AI, best known for taking billions of images from people off of social media, is planning to expand its services and is on track to host 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, The Washington Post reported. Clearview AI is obtaining 1.5 billion photos a month, according to The Post. The sheer number of photos in the database...

Bishop Marco Mellino, secretary of the Council of Cardinals, told Vatican News that there was a substantial difference between “approval” and “confirmation” by the Holy See. St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. (photo: 2016 Thoom / Shutterstock) VATICAN CITY — In his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium, Pope Francis expressed his desire to see a “healthy decentralization” in t...

Walter Dellinger, a prominent Duke law professor who served in some of the nation’s highest legal positions during a storied career, has died. Dellinger died Wednesday morning in Chapel Hill, The Associated Press reported. He was 80 years old. “Walter Dellinger was a lion of the law, the legal profession, and legal education,” Kerry Abrams, dean of the Duke University School of Law, said in a...

LANSING, Mich. — Part-time police officers and volunteer firefighters would receive expanded worker’s compensation benefits under a bill introduced by Sen. Jon Bumstead on Wednesday. “Police officers and firefighters in our communities face the same challenges and dangers on the job, regardless of whether they work full-time, part-time or volunteer,” said Bumstead, R-Newaygo. “It does not mak...

Walter Dellinger, Duke law professor with storied legal career, dies at 80  Charlotte Observer

The Virginia House of Delegates on Wednesday passed a measure to make mask-wearing optional in schools. News of the bill's passage comes after the state Senate passed the bill on Tuesday night, according to The Washington Post. The bill now awaits the signing of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and will go into effect immediately. The legislation allows parents to decide if they want their children to...

Plaintiffs, Certain London Market Company Reinsurers (LMRs), filed suit against Lamorak Insurance Co. seeking a declaratory judgment that they were not obligated to pay reinsurance billings ceded by Lamorak. The disputed amounts stem from various settlements between Lamorak and its insured relating to numerous environmental damage claims dating back several decades. The LMRs moved for summary...

U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. HANDOUT via U.S. Senate. (Reuters) - Georgetown University’s law school shouldn’t banish a new faculty member over controversial Twitter posts questioning the nomination of a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge James Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told students there this week. Instead, it should let n...

Signage is seen outside The Blackstone Group headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 12, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Blackstone buys rental apartment owner as home prices jump Deal adds to take-private transactions Simpson Thacher has advised Blackstone on in recent months King & Spalding, Vinson & Elkins advise Preferred Apartment Communities The company and law firm nam...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Conservation Law Center at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will help manage a new designation of more than 3.5 million acres in southern Indiana as a Sentinel Landscape, a coalition to advance sustainable land management practices around military installations and ranges. Land within the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape includes wetlands. The Sentinel L...