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Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Every week, Dear Prudence answers additional questions from readers, just for Slate Plus members. Q. On the move: In my husband’s family, it is a “tradition” to hand down baby items to the next pregnant family member. I am an only child and respect this to an extent, but most of the stuff isn’t valuable like a christening gown—it’s ones...

Arianna Anderson had just gone into labor with her fifth child in March 2021 when a bathroom pipe burst. She scrambled to pack for the hospital and, with her husband working out of state, shuttle her young children off to a sitter. Water rushed from a cabinet, pooling on the floor. “Can you imagine? My water was breaking, and there was water coming from underneath the sink,” Anderson recalls....

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From July 2020 to July 2021, there were 1,619 reports of newborns born in Arkansas with an illegal substance present in their system. This is a 20% increase from the year before. The House and Senate Committees for Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs reviewed the number of Garrett's law reports last week. In 2005, the Arkansas General Assembly passed a law expanding th...

The Civil Procedure Law of China was amended on 12 December 2021 and the revised law became effective on 1 January 2022. The modifications, some of which are summarised below, are intended to facilitate and accelerate the current procedure. Online hearings The new Article 16 provides that, if the litigants agree, a hearing may be organised online. Single judge According to Article 40 (ex 39)...

Outdoors Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos has named new directors for the Division of Law Enforcement and the Division of Fish and Wildlife. Both positions were vacant due to retirements. The director’s slot opened up in the Division of Law Enforcement last summer when Bernie Rivers decided to wrap up a career in law enforcement that spanned more than 37 yea...

As Google extended its dominance as a search engine over the past two decades, the Czech Republic stood out as a surprising holdout. People in the European nation preferred Seznam, a search engine started in Prague in 1996, two years before Google. For about 15 years, the company’s focus on its local market provided a feel-good story about a hometown underdog prevailing against a rising globa...

There's a move afoot at the General Assembly to legalize happy hour drink specials, creating certain designated times when alcohol prices are reduced at restaurants and bars. This would undo a more than 35-year-old law, with some caveats. The background on why happy hour is banned in RI: A 1985 Rhode Island law banned promotions such as two-for-one drink specials, open bars for which a fixed...

A group of Englewood Cliffs residents and officials is asking a judge to prevent the borough from continuing to pay a law firm that has amassed nearly $1 million in legal billings. The group also wants the court to hold the mayor and three councilmen personally responsible for some of the fees. Their motion comes as part of a lawsuit they filed in January against Englewood Cliffs, Mayor Mari...