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1of3 Show MoreShow Less As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, all eyes are on Justice Amy Coney Barrett — and her religious beliefs. Vanderbilt University law professor Suzanna Sherry said in The Hill newspaper that Barrett shouldn’t ponder abortion cases because her Catholic faith prevents her from rendering an impartial judgement. It’s one of the dumbest argumen...

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates -- Over a dozen unmarried women huddled in a jail cell south of Dubai last year, locked up for the crime of giving birth, when a guard entered and declared them free. The incident, described by one of the women, was among the first concrete signs that the United Arab Emirates had decriminalized premarital sex in an overhaul of its Islamic penal code. But a year l...

Emirates Invisible Children Maya, 36, plays with her one-year-old undocumented daughter in a dank, overstuffed section of an apartment, subdivided by hinged partitions, that she shares with eight other women, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. A year after the United Arab Emirates decriminalized premarital sex in a bold expansion of personal freedoms, the law has strugg...

1 of 6 Maya, 36, plays with her one-year-old undocumented daughter in a dank, overstuffed section of an apartment, subdivided by hinged partitions, that she shares with eight other women, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. A year after the United Arab Emirates decriminalized premarital sex in a bold expansion of personal freedoms, the law has struggled to fulfill its pr...

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Over a dozen unmarried women huddled in a jail cell south of Dubai last year, locked up for the crime of giving birth, when a guard entered and declared them free. The incident, described by one of the women, was among the first concrete signs that the United Arab Emirates had decriminalized premarital sex in an overhaul of its Islamic penal code. But a year la...

Europe's buildings are in desperate need of renovation, but there are now fears that the latest legislative push to increase energy efficiency is being watered down [ Erik Tanghe / Pixabay] This article is part of our special report Building decarbonisation. There are growing concerns that the European Commission is considering to water down a key piece of legislation that would drive emissio...

In this week’s Murphy’s Law, the Iowa State Cyclones are undefeated because T.J. Otzelberger found enough talented guys willing to play the kind of basketball not every player will. Photo: AP

Pictured is an Amtrak Lakeshore Limited train. The line extends from Chicago to Massachusetts, with five stops in northern Ohio. Getty photos. WASHINGTON — The leader of Amtrak told a U.S. House panel Thursday that the recently enacted infrastructure law made great strides to solving the passenger rail system’s financial woes and placed it on equal footing with other modes of transportation. ...

Credit: Adobe Stock Pay wars used to happen because the best law firms upped their salaries forcing everyone else to do the same. But this current market has gone way beyond that. No one is immune from the struggle to retain talent anymore. Not the biggest and best law firms. Not even the richest firms. Since the start of December we have seen Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s largest firm by...

The FDIC established a new Office of Supervisory Appeals to "consider and decide appeals of material supervisory determinations." The new Office replaces the Supervision Appeals Review Committee and is intended to enhance the independence of the appeals process and ensure accountability in the examination process. The Office will operate under the FDIC's January 2021 Revised Guidelines for Ap...