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With homicide rates and gun violence rising nationwide, law enforcement faces significant challenges. It stands to reason that police departments that are freed from marijuana arrests will have more resources to devote to serious crimes. According to a June 2020 study by the National Institute of Justice on the Effects of Marijuana Legalization on Law Enforcement, “legalization has apparently...

DUBAI (Reuters) – The ruler of Abu Dhabi issued a new law on Sunday governing personal status matters for non-Muslims in the emirate, which includes an article on civil marriage, state news agency WAM said. The decree from Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, who is also president of the United Arab Emirates, aims to “enhance the position and global competitiveness of the emirate as one of the most ...

Ramatou Ouedraogo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Benin’s new abortion law considers a woman’s socioeconomic situation. Benin’s parliament has voted to legalise abortion in most circumstances. This is a groundbreaking...

Congress is not a party in either of the Supreme Court challenges to Texas’ new, expansive abortion law, which places enforcement in the hands of individuals in order to evade scrutiny by the courts or the Department of Justice. But it looms large over the case. In fact, “Congress” was mentioned 52 times during oral arguments Monday in the cases, which pit the Justice Department and abortion ...

The other day I came upon a stop sign, but there was no one coming, and I could have gone through very safely. I did not because 1. I obey the law. and 2. A few years ago I rolled through one on an empty highway, not coming to a full stop, and got a $100 fine. OK, I was wrong and broke the law, even though it did no harm. Meanwhile, law enforcement personnel who are refusing the mask and vacc...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Non-Muslims will be allowed to marry, divorce and get joint child custody under civil law in Abu Dhabi according to a new decree issued on Sunday by its ruler, state news agency WAM said. It is the latest step in the United Arab Emirates -- where personal status laws on marriage and divorce had been based on Islamic sharia principles, as in other Gulf states -- to maintain it...

A Pennsylvania state lawmaker claims Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf admitted to a violation of the state’s election laws when Wolf spoke during a recent radio interview. Wolf told Pittsburgh radio station KDKA-AM last week that his wife, Pennsylvania first lady Frances Wolf, dropped off his mail-in ballot at a polling station during early voting for the state’s recent elections. "I didn’t show up i...

Chickens were running up and down the road and a woman was afraid dogs would get them. The woman told the Kalispell Police Department that none of her neighbors had chickens. She waited until animal control arrived to show them where the chickens had flown onto a neighbor’s porch. A woman allegedly cried in the driver’s seat of a truck while a male passenger destroyed his phone outside. He go...

In Pictures Women’s rights activists say Poland’s newly restrictive abortion law is to blame for the death of a pregnant woman. Protests take place under the slogan "Not one more" in Gdansk, north Poland. [Adam Warzawa/EPA] Protesters have turned out in Warsaw and in many other Polish cities to decry the country’s restrictive abortion law, which they say has led to the death of a pregnant wom...

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