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St. Peter’s Dome. / dade72 via Shutterstock. Vatican City, Feb 16, 2022 / 06:30 am (CNA). In his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium, Pope Francis expressed his desire to see a “healthy decentralization” in the Catholic Church. He used the term again in his latest amendments to the canon law of both the Latin and Eastern Churches, issued on Tuesday. The changes were contained in the ...

Richmond Heights City Council will soon discuss whether to ban residents' fireworks use by opting out of state House Bill 172. RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- City Council has begun the discussion as to whether it will allow residents to set off consumer grade fireworks, as allowed by the recently passed House Bill 172, or vote to opt out of the state law and forbid their use. HB 172 is set to go i...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson speaks as (L-R) U.S. Sen. ... [+] Getty Images Despite the bitter partisan divide in Congress, both the House of Representatives and Senate recently passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (H.R. 4445). This law received extensive bipartisan support, as it passed the House 3...

York County Deputy Fifield carries the urn, inside which are the cremains of Nitro II, the K-9 deputy killed in the line of duty. The York Fire Department gets in place ahead of the arrival of K-9 Deputy Nitro II before the Tuesday afternoon motorcade arrived at the Holthus Convention Center. YORK -- “The relationship between a police service dog and his handler is that of a team, a committed...

Dear Minister, As the EU General Affairs Council prepares to hold a hearing on 22 February on the rule of law in Poland under the Article 7.1 TEU procedure, the undersigned civil society organisations would like to draw your attention to some alarming developments. Since the Council last discussed the situation in June 2021, a severe and steady decline in the respect for EU values in Poland h...

Brugger: Should the State Define Morality or Statutory Law?  Twin Falls Times-News

Cost of Care is a recurring column about the cost of U.S. healthcare, including drug pricing policy, regulatory decisions, investment in research and development, and more. The disparity between the cost of drugs in the U.S. and abroad is pressuring legislators and experts to think creatively about the issue even as government-led efforts stall. The price of branded pharmaceuticals in the U....

DUBAI, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Kuwait's Constitutional Court on Wednesday overturned an article of the penal code criminalising the imitation of the opposite sex, in a move welcomed by Amnesty International as a "major breakthrough" for transgender rights in the Gulf Arab region. The court said in a statement on its website that article 198 was unconstitutional because it did not provide "objectiv...

Lukas Flippo, Senior Photographer Student activists in the Endowment Justice Coalition claimed in a complaint filed Wednesday that the University’s continued investments in the fossil fuel industry violate state law. The EJC, a group of student activists focused on the ethical allocation of University endowment funds, acted alongside students at Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt and the Massach...

There was a time when online platforms “moved fast, broke rules,” and were rewarded with massive consumer (and financial) growth while encountering limited regulatory pushback, if any at all. This was the case for Meta (formerly Facebook) and Uber, who were able to exploit some regulatory “gaps” because their business models were so novel that they didn´t really fit under the existing framewo...