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The Little Rock Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, is shown Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Grant Lancaster) Little Rock FBI agents and law enforcement leaders from across the state met Thursday to address the rising threat of violence directed at officers of the law, which FBI data suggests has already surpassed previous years nationally. The event i...

JOCE/Bauer-Griffin/Getty This is one bar tab Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) may regret not paying. Faced with an onslaught of accusations that he engaged in underage sex trafficking—and bracing for criminal charges—Gaetz has allowed his license to practice law in his home state of Florida to lapse. As of Wednesday, Gaetz had not paid the fees he owes to The Florida Bar, which regulates lawyers there,...

Last week, Sen. Tom Cotton used the term "surveillance scheme" to describe the proposed expansion of IRS access to aggregate bank activity over $600. His polite terminology presumably arose in deference to his status as a member of the "world's greatest deliberative body." Unbridled government arrogance leads to abusive, intrusive and oppressive ideas that are packaged and promoted with noble...

JOCE/Bauer-Griffin/Getty This is one bar tab Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) may regret not paying. Faced with an onslaught of accusations that he engaged in underage sex trafficking—and bracing for criminal charges—Gaetz allowed his license to practice law in his home state of Florida to lapse this month. On Friday, The Daily Beast revealed that Gaetz had not paid the fees he owes to The Florida Bar,...

by JIM JONES/Special to The Press Having served as Idaho Attorney General for eight years back in the 1980s, I feel qualified to provide a little friendly legal advice to Attorney General candidate Arthur Macomber. Those who wish to be the state's chief legal officer should learn the law and try to abide by it. Macomber held a press conference in Ammon, along with wanna-be Governor Janice M...

In response to the letter from Ellen Field on “retroactive laws” in the Sun Journal on Oct. 16, she’s just wrong on the facts, as are the advertisements from “Mainers for Fair Laws” that have been filling our mailboxes and air waves. Title 1, Chapter 11, Section 302 of the Maine Revised Statutes has long given elected officials the right to pass retroactive laws — there are no new powers bein...

It’s hard to choose which is worse. Is it the results of an important new study revealing that the rule of law has deteriorated around the world, including within the United States? Or is it the fact that too few are paying attention? The rule of law is foundational to a just society. At its core, it addresses judicial independence, access to the justice system, and other basic human and econ...

Singapore’s new foreign interference law will exacerbate the “pervasive culture of academic self-censorship,” critics have warned, despite assurances that routine university activities will not be affected. The Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act empowers the government to investigate and obstruct “hostile information campaigns” designed to incite social discord in Singapore, influenc...

FILE PHOTO: Children leave a school in Shekou area of Shenzhen, China SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has passed an education law that seeks to cut the "twin pressures" of homework and off-site tutoring in core subjects, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Beijing has exercised a more assertive paternal hand this year, from tacking the addiction of youngsters to online games, deemed ...

At least 34,000 women in Poland are known to have sought abortions illegally or abroad since the country introduced a near total ban on terminations a year ago. According to Abortion Without Borders (AWB), an organisation that helps women access safe abortion services, more than 1,000 Polish women have sought second-trimester abortions in foreign clinics since the country passed draconian new...