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Credit...Illustration by Shoshana Schultz/The New York Times; Photograph by lillisphotography via Getty Images A libertarian constitutional law scholar named Ilya Shapiro sent out some ugly tweets last week. Shapiro, who’d recently been hired by Georgetown University’s law school, criticized Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, arguing that the Indian-born judge ...

Austria is the first Western democracy to mandate Covid vaccinations for nearly its entire adult population, a once-unthinkable move that is being seen as a test case for other countries grappling with pockets of vaccine resistance. The sweeping measure, which easily cleared its final parliamentary hurdle on Thursday when it was approved by lawmakers in Austria’s upper house, will be signed i...

Hong Kong national security police arrested a 75-year-old pro-democracy activist, according to a Chinese state media report that called him an “anti-China disruptor.” Koo Sze-yiu, a member of the League of Social Democrats, was arrested shortly after 6 a.m. Friday on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power under the city’s national security law, according to China’s official Xinhua Ne...

As a peer recovery coach and a person in long-term recovery, I support L.D. 1862. The expansion of this bill will protect all at the scene of an overdose where 911 is called, in this medical emergency. At this time the bill only protects the person who makes the 911 call and the person who has overdosed. I have lost too many friends to overdose because my friends were hesitant or refused to c...

(Image credit: CBS/NBC) Law & Order is on the way back to television, despite originally coming to an end more than a decade ago. A lot has changed on the small screen in the years since it went off the air, including Law & Order: SVU making television history and the premieres of no fewer than seven other hit shows that now share the same TV universe. The return of Law & Or...

Online Safety Bill strengthened with new list of criminal content for tech firms to remove as a priority List includes online drug and weapons dealing, people smuggling, revenge porn, fraud, promoting suicide and inciting or controlling prostitution for gain New criminal offences will be added to the bill to tackle domestic violence and threats to rape and kill Flagship UK laws to prot...

Most Fridays, advice columnist Carolyn Hax takes your comments and questions. Carolyn has hosted this chat since 1998, answering your wide-ranging questions about life, family, relationships and more. Some questions may be adapted into full columns. This week’s live chat is over, but you can read a transcript from the discussion below. Carolyn’s next live chat is at 12 p.m. on February 11 and...

The Harvard Law Review elected Priscila E. Coronado as the first Latina president in its 136-year history. The Harvard Law Review elected second-year law student Priscila E. Coronado as its president late last month, making her the first Latina to hold the role in the journal’s 136-year history. A California native, Coronado completed a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Cali...

A store owner called the Kalispell Police Department after staff and claimed a man upset about a package damaged during shipping had called the business saying he was on his way there and they should call the police. An officer spoke with both parties. The man told the officer he was not headed to the store and he had said he “would make a scene later if they did not make it right.” He was en...

Wikimedia Commons The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, co-chaired by law professor Cristina Rodriguez, released its final report assessing various reform measures in December. Now, as there is an open seat to fill and the court considers high-profile cases on abortion and affirmative action, the composition of the court has gained significant attention. The b...