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Health Information Management graduates from San Diego Mesa College participate in commencement ceremonies. Photo courtesy of the San Diego Community College District. Legislation that eases the way for community college students to earn bachelor’s degrees in specific workforce fields not offered by the University of California or California State University was signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin...

SYDNEY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Australia's top law officer has written to her state counterparts urging them to redraft the country's defamation law after a High Court ruling that publishers of social media posts are liable for reader comments sent shockwaves through the media sector. The ruling last month, https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australian-media-outlets-liable-facebook-com...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s request to halt enforcement of the recently passed Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state while the legal battle over the statute makes its way through the federal courts. In his 113-page ruling, Robert L. Pitman, a Federal District Court judge in Austin, sided with the Biden administration, which had su...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state. The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early challenges. In the weeks sin...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state. The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early challenges. In the weeks sin...

A federal judge granted the Justice Department a temporary injunction late Wednesday blocking the enforcement of Texas' strict abortion law. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued the order, which will block the state from enforcing the law, known as S.B. 8, which was passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature. The Supreme Court ruled in September that the law could be enforced while legal ch...

A federal judge has blocked enforcement of Texas' controversial new abortion law, granting an emergency request from the Justice Department. The DOJ sought the halt in enforcement just days after the department sued Texas over its new abortion law. Known as SB 8, the law bans almost all abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape, sexual abuse and incest. ...

In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, file photo, women protest against Texas’ restrictive abortion law at the Capitol in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-...

Doing the dishes and taking out the trash are going to change forever for many San Diegans on Jan. 1, 2022. That’s when California State Bill 1383 finally starts stretching its legs as law. That law will require a majority of California homes and businesses to recycle food waste with yard waste. On Wednesday, Chula Vista Mayor Mary Casillas Salas joined other local leaders and Republic Servic...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas’ near-total abortion ban Wednesday as part of a lawsuit the Biden administration launched against the state over its new law that bars abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin — a 2014 Obama nomi...