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The city seal outside Ann Arbor's city hall on Nov. 4, 2021. ANN ARBOR, MI — Amid calls to decriminalize sex work in Ann Arbor, the city attorney’s office is defending a law against prostitution on the city’s books. The local ordinance is an important tool to help police investigate human trafficking and get vulnerable people out of bad situations, the attorney’s office maintains.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors say that the hundreds of millions of euros the bloc has poured into six Western Balkan nations to improve the rule of law there just doesn’t pay off. The report by the European Court of Auditors, or ECA, that was published Monday shows that the countries often continue to show a lack of commitment to tackle anything from pervasive corruption to state in...

The U.S. is home to some pretty weird local laws — like the Iowa towns that banned ice cream trucks in the 1960s, or the entire state of Wisconsin, which has a ban on margarine. In Oklahoma, it's actually illegal to take a bite of someone else's food, even as a joke. To be fair, these laws have fairly sturdy reasoning to them (or at least they did when they were first enacted). Ice cream tru...

BRUSSELS -- European Union auditors say that the hundreds of millions of euros the bloc has poured into six Western Balkan nations to improve the rule of law there just doesn’t pay off. The report by the European Court of Auditors, or ECA, that was published Monday shows that the countries often continue to show a lack of commitment to tackle anything from pervasive corruption to state interf...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors say that the hundreds of millions of euros the bloc has poured into six Western Balkan nations to improve the rule of law there just doesn’t pay off. The report by the European Court of Auditors, or ECA, that was published Monday shows that the countries often continue to show a lack of commitment to tackle anything from pervasive corruption to state in...

15 E. Midland Ave., Paramus - File photo Cushman & Wakefield said last week that it arranged a 12-year, 20,120-square-foot lease for Hall Booth Smith P.C. at 15 E. Midland Ave. in Paramus, an Onyx Equities property. Hall Booth Smith is a full-service law firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Cushman & Wakefield’s Kevin Landers, Barry Zeller, Jonathan Serko, David DeMatteis and Mina ...

(Public domain photo) A law that bans so-called conversion therapy in Canada took effect on Jan. 7. Canadian lawmakers late last year approved the law that amended the country’s Criminal Code. The law took effect 30 days after it received royal assent, which happened on Dec. 8. “As of today, it’s official: Conversion therapy is banned in Canada,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Jan. 7...

On 10 January 2022, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) issued a study on “The interrelationship between counter-terrorism frameworks and international humanitarian lawPDF”. The study, prepared in accordance with Security Council resolution 2617 (2021), builds on CTED’s engagement with Member States and other relevant stakeholders, including in the context of the coun...

--> Sorry, we're having issues playing this video. In the meantime, try watching one of the videos below. Well, ski season in Michigan is underway, and with snow in the forecast and people looking for safe ways to get out of the house, the slopes are bound to be busy. But before you head out, you might want a refresher on the basic legal rules of skiing. Joining us again is Grand Rapids ...

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) I frequently rail about hypocrisy and, in particular, the hypocrisy of politicians. In that regard, I’m nonpartisan: I rail about hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle. But the hypocrisy of January 6 is uniquely one-sided. One way to check if you’re being honest with yourself — to see if you’re suffering from partisan bias — is to hypothetically reverse the ...