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Dozens of new laws passed in the 2021 Maryland legislative session will take effect on Friday. The bills cover a variety of topics ranging from police reform — which was at center stage this year — to racial equity and gun sales. Overall, 771 bills were passed this year in the Maryland General Assembly. A list provided by the Maryland Department of Legislative Services shows some of the most ...

TAIPEI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan respects U.S. commercial law and rules but will help Taiwanese companies if they receive any "unreasonable requests", the government said on Thursday after the United States pressed firms to provide information on the semiconductor crisis. The White House asked automakers, chip companies and others last week to provide information on the chip shortage that h...

LONDON, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, and the fourth time in the last six years, Mayer Brown has been named "European Law Firm of the Year – Transactions" at the 2021 Global Derivatives Awards hosted by GlobalCapital. The awards spotlight the leading firms, services and products in the global derivatives markets. GlobalCapital highlighted the firm's work in deve...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Chilean lawmakers on Wednesday approved a law establishing the rights to personal identity, free will and mental privacy, becoming the first country in the world to legislate on neurotechnology that can manipulate one's mind. This bill, which already passed the Senate last year, could form the basis of future lawmaking in field of human rights in other countr...

Jacob Sullum is a syndicated newspaper columnist with Creators Syndicate and a Senior Editor at Reason magazine. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who this month signed a bill that aims to restrict the editorial discretion of social media platforms, says the new law “protects Texans from wrongful censorship” and thereby upholds their First Amendment rights. The law, H.B. 20, is scheduled to take effect...

A woman was so upset to see a man outside making birdhouses that she called officers claiming he was damaging the city bench he was sitting on. A Kalispell Police Department officer made contact with the man and deemed he was not causing damage to city property and she was more upset about his presence. She was counseled. An employee reportedly was going to ask a man wearing a bright yellow r...

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Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Indonesia’s parliament approved a $190 billion state budget for next year, while moving closer to passing sweeping reforms to the country’s tax system that should help fund spending and cut reliance on debt. Lawmakers passed the 2022 budget into law at a plenary meeting on Thursday, with state spe...

The original “Law & Order” TV series is returning to NBC more than a decade after its last episode aired. A statement from the show’s production company, Wolf Entertainment, confirmed the return of the original series, which ran from 1990 through 2010. If you were a fan of the crime procedural, it sounds like you can expect more of what you loved about the original. “Season 21 will contin...