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A line of voters wraps around Converse City Hall on the first day of early voting for the 2020 election in October. Early voting begins Monday for the 2022 primary elections — the first election since Republicans passed an “election integrity” law. Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa called the new law “a barefaced attack on Texas voters — one that should never have seen the light ...

Credit: vejaa/Adobe Stock Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to offer paid support for their U.K. people going through the menopause, as more law firms recognise the issue. The firm has rolled out a U.K. menopause policy for its colleagues, including paid time off, effective from earlier in February. This premium content is reserved exclusively for International Edition subscribers. Benefits o...

Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson excused one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by describing him as "a devout Christian." It's safe to surmise that he wouldn't have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American. Since Sept. 11, 2001, and even before that ominous date, they have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate ...

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins recently urged progressive advocates to defend changes to New York's bail laws, warning hard-fought gains on a variety of issues are at stake if Democrats lose power in Albany and Washington. At the same time, Stewart-Cousins accused Republicans of conducting a national effort to stoke opposition to the measures, which ended cash bail requirements...

At the very moment when Gov. Gavin Newsom and his appointed attorney general, Rob Bonta, were talking tough on crime just after last fall’s wave of smash-and-grab burglaries, an influential new state panel was plumping hard to soften California’s signature law for getting tough on career criminals. The first-in-the-nation “three strikes and you’re out” law – passed with 72 percent approval as...

(Eric Harkleroad/KHN illustration; Getty Images) A Texas consulting company that arranges spine surgery and other medical care for people injured in car crashes has come under scrutiny in a widening federal bribery investigation. The Spinal Tap Meg Health Care, run by Dallas personal injury attorney Manuel Green and his wife, Melissa Green, is the focus of a search warrant recently unseal...

John P. "Jack" Talbot, a lawyer from Pine Bluff, has joined the law firm of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. He will work at the firm's Little Rock office, according to a news release. Talbot has experience as a trial lawyer with a focus on business law, agriculture and real estate. He assists agribusinesses, agricultural lenders and other commercial clients with liti...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Rhythmic - Individual All-Around - Medal Ceremony - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 7, 2021. Gold medallist Linoy Ashram of Israel poses with her medal If an Israeli wins the Jewish state's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, it will be even more valuable, after the Knesset plenum passed into law late Monday a bill that will e...

Larry Colton and Maria Kendall visit the former home of her mother Natalia Esteban (not pictured) in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Aug. 4, 2021. When the house title changed over to a stranger, all of Natalia’s family photos and trinkets from her life in Mexico were thrown out. Maria Kendall y Larry Colton visita la antigua casa de su madre Natalia Esteban (ella no está en la foto) en Marshalltown...

Two individuals were arrested this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion. Thus far, law enforcement has seized over $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency linked to that hack. “Today’s arrests, and the department’s largest financial seizure e...