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New details have emerged from Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit against Los Angeles County involving photos of the victims of the deadly chopper crash where her husband, Kobe Bryant, their daughter Gianna and seven others died. Bryant's lawyers claim the pictures of Kobe and Gianna's bodies were passed around on 28 LA County Sheriff's Department devices and others belonging to a dozen firefighters, CB...

A voter casts an absentee ballot early in October 2020 in Athens. Photo: John Bazemore/AP Former senator and gubernatorial hopeful David Perdue says he wants to create an “Election Law Enforcement Division” within the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to enforce election laws, investigate election-related crimes and arrest offenders. Why it matters: This is the latest Republican proposal circul...

Providence, R.I. (January 19, 2022) - 2021 was a productive year for the members of the Rhode Island General Assembly. Against the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Assembly passed several significant pieces of labor and employment legislation. Out of the remote hearings of the socially distant session emerged a bill to comprehensively address wage discrimination on the basis of...

Momentum is growing for making changes to an archaic election law after former President Trump and his allies tried to overturn Electoral College results. Multiple groups on Capitol Hill are working on reforms to the Electoral Count Act, which lays out how the Electoral College results are counted. And in a rare area of overlap, GOP leaders in both chambers and President Biden are opening the...

The number of rejected mail-in ballot applications is skyrocketing in Texas counties under new Republican-authored voting restrictions recently signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. The Texas crackdown on mail-in voting appears to be hitting hardest in the state's most densely populated counties, which also tend to have more voters of color and predominantly vote Democratic. In Travis County, ...

Law & Order is just over a month away from returning with its first new episode in more than a decade with the revival for Season 21. The show is bringing back some familiar faces while also adding plenty of new ones, and will fill out a full night of Law & Order action for NBC on Thursdays. The return was announced back in the early fall, and the premiere date was set in November, bu...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Artemis Rayford was 12-years-old when he wrote a letter last year to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, expressing concern about a new state law that allows most adults to legally carry a gun without a permit. “I am a sixth-grader at Sherwood Middle School, and it is my opinion that this new law will be bad, and people will be murdered,” Artemis wrote the governor. His predi...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned debt collectors and credit agencies last week that they need to step more carefully when it comes to trashing people’s credit scores because of stratospheric medical bills. The agency’s notice underlines that the federal No Surprises Act took effect this month, protecting people from many unexpected health care charges. “Too many Americans have ...

'A lot of quality in a small space': Tiny home owners take step forward with new Maine law  Seacoastonline.com

An aerial photo shows the Provo Canyon School campus on Jan. 30, 2021, in Springville, Utah. Five days after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law meant to provide stronger oversight of the more than 100 residential youth treatment programs operating in the state, a 12-year-old boy arrived at one of them, Provo Canyon School. Before long, he was forced into seclusion, denied communication with h...