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State Capitol in Olympia.<p>{/p} OLYMPIA, Wash. — The arrival of 2022 also brings with it a raft of new laws set to take effect in Washington state, including legislation that aims to restore voting rights and ban the use of Native American images and names as school mascots. Customers who take food orders to go will now have to ask for single-use eating utensils and condiments because ...

A new federal law affirms the operation of a casino in North Carolina by the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation, ending a yearslong dispute between the tribes. President Joe Biden signed the The Catawba Indian Nation Lands Act, which was included in a larger piece of legislation authorizing military spending, on Monday. The Catawba Indian Nation will oversee the $273 million Catawba T...

Members of the Right to Die With Dignity group demonstrate in support of Spain's new euthanasia law in June in Madrid. The banner reads, "I decide how and when I die." (AP Photo/Paul White) (Newser) – Austrians with a terminal illness or permanent, debilitating condition now may seek help in ending their life. Parliament approved legalizing assisted suicide last week after a Constitutional C...

New Las Vegas law requires gender inclusive signage on single-stall restrooms (KSNV) LAS VEGAS (KSNV) – It’s now illegal in the state of Nevada for public single-stall restroom signs to not be gender-inclusive. “It’s offensive to people who don’t identify in those ways and it’s just kind of like a constant reminder right that they’re not accepted, they’re not safe,” said Susan Johnson. Assemb...

New Las Vegas law requires gender inclusive signage on single-stall restrooms (KSNV) LAS VEGAS (KSNV) – It’s now illegal in the state of Nevada for public single-stall restroom signs to not be gender-inclusive. “It’s offensive to people who don’t identify in those ways and it’s just kind of like a constant reminder right that they’re not accepted, they’re not safe,” said Susan Johnson. Assemb...

CHICAGO -- An Illinois law aimed at ending federal immigration detention in the New Year has hit another legal snag, delaying a change immigrant rights activists had celebrated as historic. Local governments in Illinois cannot enter into new federal agreements allowing jails to house immigrant detainees and must end old ones in 2022 under the law signed in August by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Other ...

CHICAGO — An Illinois law aimed at ending federal immigration detention in the New Year has hit another legal snag, delaying a change immigrant rights activists had celebrated as historic. Local governments in Illinois cannot enter into new federal agreements allowing jails to house immigrant detainees and must end old ones in 2022 under the law signed in August by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Other s...

Coalition crisis threatened over imported fruit. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a cabinet meeting on November 14, 2021 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's governing coalition will face a challenge on Monday night when it will attempt to pass the controversial electricity law.The bill would enable tens of thousands of illegally built homes to be hooked up to the national electricity gri...

Donald Trump’s actions while his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol show the former president is unfit for future office and could be held criminally responsible, said members of the House panel investigating the deadly 2021 riot. Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the bipartisan committee, described Trump’s “dereliction of duty” as he watched from the White House w...

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