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Newswise — Valentine’s Day brings proposals, extended families and high expectations. It can also be a time to confront difficult or unhealthy relationships. University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW) faculty are available for interviews on discussing relationship dynamics in the following areas: Healthy Bonds between Black Fathers-in-Law and Sons-in-Law Assistant Professor Ericka M...

Setting up your family business correctly allows you to hit the ground running and prevent major issues from popping up down the road. To that end, DWT's Family Business Resource Center is running a series of articles to provide guidance on how to set up your business the right way. Our first article in that series, on entity selection, can be found here. The series continues with this articl...

Civilians eat at an open kiosk operated by a street vendor selling food as Uganda reopens its bars and night clubs after nearly two years of restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Jinja, Uganda February 2, 2022. REUTERS/Miriam Watsemba KAMPALA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Uganda is preparing legislation to make COVID-19 jabs mandatory in a country with low levels of vacci...

Credit: Mary Szmolko. All Rights Reserved. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law in University Park students work alongside faculty in a hands-on atmosphere that takes them beyond the books. Penn State Law faculty encourage experiential learning – both in courses, and in nine clinics and one practicum – to augment students’ coursework and help them develop the confidence to serve as leaders i...

WASHINGTON — A North Carolina man was arrested today for assaulting law enforcement during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Matthew Jason Beddingfield, 21, of Middlesex, North Carolina, is charged in a criminal compl...

This Nov. 27, 2019, file photo shows “ghost guns” on display at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File) Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón and law enforcement officials called on three major credit card companies Tuesday to stop accepting online payments for the purchase of ghost gun kits. Ghost guns are sold mostl...

Redistricting lawsuits offer limited option DOJ voting section hiring spree expands bandwidth The Justice Department’s voting section faces significant hurdles in challenging new state election laws and redrawn maps that Democrats say will suppress or dilute minority votes. The newly staffed-up section of the Civil Rights Division that’s already sued Georgia and Texas confronts long odds in...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi addresses members of the City Club of Chicago Jan. 21, 2020, at Maggiano's Little Italy in Chicago. Pardon my skepticism, but I’ll wait and see whether a new state law addressing affordable housing is all it’s cracked up to be. Lawmakers gathered for a virtual news conference Monday to celebrate the launch of a program that offers developers property tax incen...

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced that Civic Works in Baltimore will receive $200,000 for workforce development and job training to help spur economic opportunity and advance environmental justice in underserved communities. The lawmakers fought to deliver these funds through the pass...

Two stories straight out of Alabama this week really encapsulate how the panic over "critical race theory," the war on schools and the war on democracy itself are all a piece of a singular racist right wing movement. Last week, AL.com reported that school officials across the state say parents are freaking out over the very existence of Black History Month, accusing schools of promoting "crit...