test

thumb_17157.png HARRISBURG, Pa. — With aggressive driving on the rise throughout the pandemic, officials are concerned there could be a perfect storm this holiday week. “PA roadways are an increasingly dangerous place to be,” AAA Central Penn Public Relations Manager Doni Lee Spiegel tells CBS 21 News’ Samantha York. “Central Penn region is always really busy when it comes to traffic, especia...

While China's sweeping new data privacy laws have left tech companies confused about how to comply, they also put the U.S. even further behind in the global race to set digital standards. What's happening: China enacted its Personal Information Privacy Law earlier this month, following Europe as the second major international player to have its own sweeping data privacy regulations. The law,...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When Texas imposed the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, doctors and clinics were forced to move their patients quickly to out-of-state providers. And for the past two months, providers have had to work in a sort of limbo as they wait to see if the new law passes the Supreme...

A district court judge has ruled an Iowa law that blocks Medicaid coverage of gender confirming surgery is unconstitutional. The ACLU of Iowa filed a lawsuit after Aiden Vasquez and Mika Covington were denied state-paid Medicaid coverage for surgeries their doctors said were medically necessary to treat gender dysphoria. Judge William P. Kelly’s ruling says those denials violated the Iowa Civ...

The Department of Education has put out proposed rules on how to enforce the state's new law, which limits teaching race in the classroom. Share: Tennessee has issued new guidance on how they plan to discipline schools that teach banned concepts around race and gender. It’s part of legislation passed this spring to limits classroom discussions around racism, white privilege and unconscious bi...

This article is part of our latest DealBook special report on the trends that will shape the coming decades. The first time the Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig told computer scientists they were the unwitting regulators of the digital age — about 20 years ago — he made a coder cry. “I am not a politician. I’m a programmer,” Mr. Lessig recalls her protesting, horrified by the idea. Now, ...

Kimble Richardson, manager of Business Development Referrals at Community Health Network in Indianapolis, speaks to first responders from the Greenwood Police Department, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Johnson County 911 Center, probation officers and clinicians from Adult and Child Mental Health, along with a member of the Johnson County Council on Friday at the Greenwood Police Department...

Former convenor of pro-independence group Studentlocalism, Tony Chung Hon-lam arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates‘ Courts in a police van after he was arrested under the national security law, in Hong Kong By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - The former leader of Hong Kong pro-independence group Studentlocalism was sentenced on Tuesday to a total of 43 months in prison for trying to separate ...

Rights activist Khurram Parvez, left, speaks with lawyer Parvez Imroz inside the office of Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Srinagar [File: Dar Yasin/AP] Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – India’s top anti-terrorism investigation agency has arrested prominent Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez under a stringent terror law following a day-long raid at his office and ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The former leader of Hong Kong pro-independence group Studentlocalism was sentenced on Tuesday to a total of 43 months in prison for trying to separate the city from China, and for money laundering. Tony Chung, 20, was charged with secession, under a sweeping national security law, and money laundering in October 2020 and was denied bail. Local media reported at the time...