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Mayor Eric Adams urged state legislators in Albany to toughen bail laws. Mayor Eric Adams urged state legislators in Albany on Wednesday to toughen bail laws and make changes to Raise the Age legislation as he advocated for the needs of New York City. Testifying during a remote hearing on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $216 billion executive budget plan — on what has come to be known as “Tin Cup Day” in...

Iowa Workforce Development Director Beth Townsend speaks at an Oct. 20, 2021, press conference. (Photo by Katie Akin/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa Workforce Development violated the law last year when it failed to retrieve Director Beth Townsend’s text messages in response to a formal document request, the legal counsel for the Iowa Public Information Board says. But despite that finding, IPIB ...

This article is the first in a new project at Just Security that assesses the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual with a goal of providing constructive opportunities to address some of its errors or shortcomings. This article concerns the legal status of a rule applicable to military targeting operations. The rule states that in situations of doubt as to whether a person or an obje...

Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 18,2021: Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador standing ... [+] Barcroft Media via Getty Images Debate is passionate right now in Mexico’s Congress over a proposal to guarantee its own state-owned power company market dominancy. At stake is Mexico’s relatively recently developed wholesale power market. “If this refor...

Daphne Howland/HR Dive Dive Brief: Party City failed to pay a group of employees on time, in violation of New York labor law, a class action lawsuit alleged (Guzman v. Party City Corporation, No. 22-cv-00666 (S.D.N.Y., Jan. 25, 2022)). The plaintiff worked in two New York Party City stores, and was paid an hourly rate of $16. His duties included unpacking and sorting inventory, reshelving r...

Linda Greenhouse and Chinh Q. Le ’00 are distinguished fellows of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy. Greenhouse: courtesy photo; Le: Photo by Bill Petros An award-winning journalist and a public interest lawyer are teaching short courses this spring at the University of Virginia School of Law under the sponsorship of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy. Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer ...

The shaman lights a hand-rolled cigarette, inhales, and blows plumes of pungent Amazonian tobacco smoke onto the heads, chests, backs, and clasped hands of his acolytes. Next, he might move about the room while beating on a drum. Standing six foot four, with an unruly shock of platinum-blond hair, he’s accustomed to being the center of attention. These ceremonies have taken place nearly every...

In contemporary politics, important and substantive bills tend to narrowly pass amid fierce partisan divisions, which made it all the more notable when the House approved worthwhile legislation with relatively broad support. The New York Times reported overnight: The final roll call showed the bill clearing the chamber, 342 to 92. Democrats were unanimous in the support for the legislation, a...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis condemned assisted suicide as an unacceptable deviation from medical ethics on Wednesday as Italy’s parliament resumed talks on a law to regulate it. Speaking at his general audience, Francis praised palliative care aimed at helping terminally ill patients live as comfortably and humanely as possible. “But we have to be careful to not c...

VATICAN CITY, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Pope Francis condemned assisted suicide as an unacceptable deviation from medical ethics on Wednesday as Italy's parliament resumed talks on a law to regulate it. Speaking at his general audience, Francis praised palliative care aimed at helping terminally ill patients live as comfortably and humanely as possible. "But we have to be careful to not confuse this ...