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Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is “the last person” to lecture Poland over its apparent rule-of-law lapses because of the Netherlands’ reputation for offering very low corporate taxes, a Polish government spokesman said. Poland has an ax to grind with the Netherlands after Rutte told his government ...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appears before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee at the Russell Senate Office Building on Oct. 5. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Matt McClain London’s “The Sun” tabloid needed to sell more copies in 1970, so editors started publishing large photos of topless women inside the cover. Conservatives decried softcore pornogra...

In remarks at the Practising Law Institute's 2021 SEC Speaks program, SEC Division of Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal asserted that the "decline in trust in our financial markets" is in part a result of "repeated lapses by large businesses, gatekeepers, and other market participants." He said that regulators do not hold these parties sufficiently accountable. Mr. Grewal stated that the Div...

Santo Domingo, RD. First Lady Raquel Arbagi is waiting for the new director of the National Police Law and Order and “The Cudgel”. The comment comes after the publication of a video clip of then-General Eduardo Alberto, this morning, the new director of the National Police, who held a party hosted by the mayor of Barahona during the hours of the curfew. “This is the new Director of Police, th...

Prison inmates walk in single file along a marked pathway. The U.S. Supreme Court has the opportunity to address the inequities in applying the “three strikes” criminal punishment law to minors. Two board members of Human Rights for Kids, Polsinelli’s Tony W. Torain II and Chairwoman Suzanne S. LaPierre, react to the court’s Oct. 4 oral arguments in Wooden v. United States and say the justice...

A drive-through mail ballot drop-off site at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas on October 7, 2020. Texas leaders assiduously laid the groundwork after the 2020 presidential election for new restrictions on voting by repeatedly referencing a “lack of confidence” in Texas’s elections—doubts that they generated by whipping up hysteria about “voter fraud,” asserts James Slattery, attorney for the Tex...

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A skinny woman with long dark hair in a red Buick was purportedly causing a huge scene at a drive-thru when she started screaming at employees and throwing a bunch of stuff out of the car. Employees asked Kalispell Police Department to ban her from the premises. Thor, a 2-year-old chocolate lab, unleashed his mythical power and slipped out of his collar then took off. Thor was returned home. ...

The war for legal talent is raging. We are seeing it in Canada, in Australia, in the U.K. in Europe and in the U.S. Law firms are poaching lawyers — even those with minimal training — from one jurisdiction to another, desperate for warm bodies that can help them handle the massive workload that shows no sign of tapering off in the near future. In some cases, they are hiring lawyers who live i...

transcript Public Health Officials Face Fury Over Covid Rules At public meetings across the country, local officials making health decisions have endured threats and hostility over pandemic restrictions. You, doctor, are going to be arrested for crimes against humanity. The governing body should fear the people. We are pissed off. Dr. Berry, we’re coming for you. [music plays] Quit abusing ou...