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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — State prosecutors in Abu Dhabi summoned people who shared videos on social media of Emirati defense forces intercepting missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthis at the nation’s capital, a state-run report said Wednesday. The move by prosecutors against social media users indicates the destabilizing potential of continued attacks on the United Arab Emirates, even if the ...

This satellite image provided Planet Labs PBC shows the aftermath of an attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels on an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. The United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi in a new attack early Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, its state-run news agenc...

France has passed a new law criminalising the use of so-called "conversion therapy" to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people. The measure was passed unanimously by the National Assembly, 142 votes to 0. Anyone convicted under the new law could face fines of up to €30,000 (£25,000) and two years in jail. President Emmanuel Macron praised the move, tweeting...

Imagine a public school teaching 5- and 6-year-olds to embrace Baptist doctrines and customs. The school contains three Baptist students. During “Baptist Lives Matter at School Week of Action," teachers tell Baptist children to reject the traditions of Catholics and Jews, disrupt the families and communities of non-Baptists, and focus on developing "Baptist villages." This would be an overt v...

FIU Law Trial Team Bedell Champions (pictured left to right) Alexander A. Pollock, Forrest J. Wilson, Victoria Thacker, and Christopher C. Chillingworth The College of Law trial team returned triumphant from Orlando this weekend having won the Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial Competition. Comprising the championship team were Victoria Thacker, Forrest J. Wilson, Christopher C. Chillingworth...

Abby Thompson, an instructor at Goldfish Swim School in Winter Park, says helping kids learn how to swim is great peace of mind for parents. (Spectrum News) FLORIDA — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the leading cause of death in children aged 1-4. A new Florida law, though, is aiming to change that. What You Need To Know The CDC reports that drownin...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Senate panel on Wednesday introduced legislation to set an end date for Idaho legislative sessions, a bill that has been tried before but comes in the wake of last year’s record-long session. The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to hold a potential hearing on the bill that would set the last Friday in March for lawmakers to wrap up business. The bill has three except...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, is taking heat this week for sending out campaign mailers containing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters who are 65 and older. Last year, Texas Republicans in the Legislature passed an elections law that banned local election officials f...

by Cheryl Walker | [email protected] | 336.758.6073 Stan Meiburg, former acting deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and director of Wake Forest University’s graduate programs in sustainability, says the fact that the Supreme Court agreed to take the case – Sackett v. EPA – is significant. It is the most complex area of jurisprudence in all of environmental law. Th...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) resulting from allegations that Everbridge may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public. “[s]hares of Everbridge declined in the fourth quarter after the ...