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Jair Bolsonaro Image Credit: Wikipedia Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Monday signed the 2022 budget into law, the country's official gazette showed, with total expenses seen at 4.7 trillion reais ($862.13 billion). Bolsonaro vetoed a total 3.1 billion reais in expenses initially passed by Congress, but it was not immediately clear which sectors or activities would be affected by the m...

Wasn’t there talk in the Legislature, in the midst of a pandemic and a struggling economy, about consolidating government functions, anticipating leaner days ahead? Read more Mahalo for reading the Honolulu Star-Advertiser! You're reading a premium story. Read the full story with our Print & Digital Subscription.

1 Republican argues for a narrower approach to changing a 19th century voting law  NPR

Third graders do their work behind see-though partitions at Christa McAuliffe School in Jersey City, N.J., Thursday, April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) New Jersey is now the second state after Illinois to require schools to teach Asian American and Pacific Islander history. While advocates who pushed for the mandate are celebrating the legislative victories, they acknowledge several steps ...

Voters in at least three states could decide this year to weaken their own voices at the ballot box. Lawmakers in Arizona, Arkansas, and South Dakota have placed measures on primary or general election ballots to make it harder to pass initiatives or to more easily reverse voter-approved decisions. “It is a death by 1,000 cuts,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, an ...

Voters in at least three states could decide this year to weaken their own voices at the ballot box. Lawmakers in Arizona, Arkansas, and South Dakota have placed measures on primary or general election ballots to make it harder to pass initiatives or to more easily reverse voter-approved decisions. “It is a death by 1,000 cuts,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, an ...

Illustration: © IoT For All 2022 will witness the birth of a new reality; a virtual one which, from on silicon high, has been dubbed “the metaverse“. It’s an immersive digital world where you may soon work, play and, naturally, enter disputes. As users resolve their differences a new legal system will emerge that we may come to call by an old name: metalaw. With power in the virtual world con...

Herzog hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the Coronavirus ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, January 13, 2022. A new law that will see the government's ability to implement COVID-19 restrictions was approved by the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Monday evening and will be brought forward to the Knesset plenum for a vote by the end of the day. Th...

Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you. Over the weekend, the captain of the Miami-bound cruise ship Crystal Symphony told its passengers that they wouldn’t be ending their journey in Florida as planned. Instead, they would be making an impromptu detour to the Bahamas. The Crystal Symphony was on the...

Adam Stapledon had been a partner at A&O for nearly 11 years. Australian corporate law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth has poached Allen & Overy’s head of debt and projects in Australia as it expands its banking and finance practice. Adam Stapledon, who will join the firm’s Sydney office as a partner, has more than two decades of experience working with sponsors and lenders in Australia...