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Texas is the latest state to prohibit transgender youth from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 25 into law on Monday. It requires public school students compete in interscholastic athlete competitions based solely on their assigned sex at birth, and takes effect on Jan. 18. The law says that K-12 students who participate in inter...

Fixing a bad law should be easy, if the Legislature will make it a priority. Imagine you’re 18 years old and convicted of a murder you didn’t commit. The jury found you guilty on shaky evidence and recommended life imprisonment, but the judge decided the crime was heinous and deserved the death penalty. Your appeals went nowhere, so you sat in prison for nearly 37 years until DNA evidence pro...

Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi signed into law late Tuesday a bill that would slash the U.S. territory's debt by half, but has also sparked protests and led to fiery exchanges between lawmakers and a federal control board that oversees the U.S. territory’s finances. The law aims to end a bankruptcy-like process that began after Puerto Rico announced in 2015 that it could not pay its mor...

Earlier today, the EPA announced that it will begin work to add four types of PFAS to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act’s (RCRA) Hazardous Constituent List. Once the EPA completes the process to add certain PFAS to the RCRA list, those PFAS would automatically be designated as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCL...

People hold a banner reading "Zan law now!" at the annual Pride March in Rome, on June 26th, 2021. Photo: Tiziana FABI/AFP The Italian Senate on Wednesday voted down a proposed law against homophobia which faced vehement opposition from right-wing parties and the Vatican. The law, known as the ‘ddl Zan’, sought to punish acts of discrimination and incitement to violence against gay, lesbian,...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is criticizing China for passing a new land boundary law which it says could impact the two countries’ long-running border dispute. An Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson says India expects that China will avoid taking actions under the new law that could unilaterally alter the situation in India-China border areas. Talks between Indian and Chinese army comman...

(Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Shocking exactly no one, Donald Trump’s new social media venture — Truth Social — turned out to be a slapdash effort that played fast and loose with the law. Which is heartbreaking because I think we were all pulling for this plucky underdog to finally break through. Rather than invest the time and money required to build a legiti...

LOS ANGELES (CNN/CBSLA) – The House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection plans to subpoena former Chapman University law professor John Eastman, who worked with former President Donald Trump’s legal team and tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on Jan. 6, a committee aide told CNN on Tuesday. FILE — Chapman Univer...

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2020, file photo, an Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. India on Wednesday criticized China for its passage of a new land boundary law which it said could impact the two countries’ border dispute amid tense ties. Both countries have stationed tens of thousands of soldiers backed by ar...

Multiple crashes reported in Temple (KWTX) WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Temple police say drivers can expect delays after last night’s rain. The department says there are multiple crashes on northbound and southbound I-35, and it asks that drivers to be safe on the roads. Copyright 2021 KWTX. All rights reserved.