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Halter Marine LAW design (as seen on a poster on display on VT Halter stand during Sea Air Space). The U.S. Navy’s upcoming Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) is one of the top acquisition priorities for the U.S. Marine Corps in their strategy to counter China’s Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) in the Indian Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) region. The LAW is meant to patrol the INDO-PACOM region, ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is enacting a new law that says state and local government agencies cannot withhold services or refuse jobs to people who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The ban applies to state agencies, city and county governments and schools, community colleges and universities. COVID-19 vaccination mandates have not been widespread in Mississippi, but some...

A California law that took effect this year and that was supposed to help the environment while combating hunger is instead causing chaos for food banks, businesses, and small cities and towns throughout the state. The law, S.B. 1383, which took effect in January, "requires supermarkets and other big food providers to divert as much as a quarter of edible food now destined for dumps to food b...

Image by: Decentraland In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of 1,200 city blocks. But did it? It turns out tha...

NEW LOOK Scam Alert Computer Generic POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office warned residents of Dutchess County and surrounding areas Friday about scams that once again seem to be on the rise. The latest scam, say police, involves the scammers posing as representatives of law enforcement. The Sheriff’s Office received two calls about this scam on April 20 and April...

Special to Fort Myers News-Press Q: I participated in the "How to Run a Board Meeting Effectively" seminar several weeks ago, that you put on and I had a quick question. A statement was made that any time there is a quorum of the board, that the formalities of a board meeting must be adhered too. However, my question is, if the formalities of the board are established, could there still be r...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union reached a landmark deal early Saturday to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content. The law will force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines. EU officials finally clinched the agreement in principle in the ...

Local attorney Jevera Kaye Hennessey is joining Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan, a full-service law firm based in Greenwich. Jevera Kaye Hennessey joins local law firm Greenwich-based law firm Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan is welcoming Jevera Kaye Hennessey as a partner in its Trusts & Estates Department. She is joining the law firm from Kaye and Hennessey in Greenwich. “It is a pr...

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong speaks outside the Connecticut Supreme Court on the new agreements reached in the long-running Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, in Hartford. After 33 years, in and out of court, a final settlement has recently been reached in the landmark Sheff v. O’Neill school segregation case. Given that school finance and school s...

A group of Georgia voters is hoping an arcane Constitutional law could knock U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off the ballot. Greene, R-Ga., on Friday testified in an administrative hearing on a challenge to her candidacy for reelection, raised by a group of Georgia voters, who claim that the congresswoman helped facilitate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The riot stemmed from efforts to stop the ce...