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Tanzania has selected U.S. law firm Baker Botts LLP as an adviser to help conclude talks with international oil companies over a long-delayed $30 billion liquefied natural gas terminal. The nation wants to sign a Host Government Agreement with oil majors, including Equinor ASA and Shell Plc by April, Energy Minister January Makamba said. The move will give further impetus to the LNG project t...

President Biden and the U.S. Department of Transportation Tuesday announced more than $1.2 billion for the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) toward the timely completion of designated corridors in 11 states in the Appalachian region. Under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, annual funding for the ADHS will increase 146% compared to Fiscal Year 2021, providing dedicat...

Cleveland State University (Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer) The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland City Council Monday unanimously passed a resolution urging Cleveland State University to remove the name of slaveholder U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall from the name of CSU’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Keeping the name atop a college at Cleveland’s public university a...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says "the biggest misconception people have" when Supreme Court rulings are weighed and handed down is that "the law is clear" to begin with. "Most people think of the law as black and white, that there's an answer," Sotomayor said Tuesday during an appearance on "Live with Kelly and Ryan." "But the reality is, there isn't a clear answer. Most of the time when the Supr...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says "the biggest misconception people have" when Supreme Court rulings are weighed and handed down is that "the law is clear" to begin with. “Most people think of the law as black and white, that there's an answer,” Sotomayor said Tuesday during an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Ryan." “But the reality is, there isn't a clear answer. Most of the time when the Supr...

Dana Boal and Tim Boal of Howell sign the Secure MI vote petition on Friday Oct. 8 in Howell. LANSING, MI — The Michigan Supreme Court struck down parts of a Republican-led 2018 law Monday that made collecting signatures for voter-led ballot initiatives more difficult. In the majority opinion in the case, League of Women Voters v. Secretary of State, Justice Megan Cavanagh said the high court...

Apostasy and blasphemy may seem to many like artifacts of history. But in scores of countries around the world, laws against apostasy and blasphemy remain on the books – and many are enforced to various degrees. A new Pew Research Center analysis finds that 79 countries and territories out of the 198 studied around the world (40%) had laws or policies in 2019 banning blasphemy, which is defi...

Staten Islanders visited polling sites like Our Lady Help of Christians, Tottenville, shown here, to cast their vote with a new ranked choice voting system on Primary Day 2021. June 22, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Annalise Knudson) Annalise Knudson Giavanni Alves STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City’s Board of Elections (BOE) needs a non-citizen voting plan by July 1, but a letter sent last w...

El Paso election administrators are rejecting a higher number of absentee voter applications than in previous years because of new statewide voting restrictions. El Paso County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise said her office rejected 7% of 2,400 mail-in vote applications received for the March 1 primary election as of Friday. The majority of those 166 rejections were due to new identificati...

LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON (ABC4) – The Traction Law is in effect in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Tuesday morning. Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) officials say the law only applies to SR-210 at this time, but SR-190 in Big Cottonwood Canyon is also covered in snow, creating dangerous road conditions. All vehicles traveling in the areas must be equipped with snow tires or traction devic...