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People take photos as helicopters fly past with a Singapore flag during the 54th National Day Parade in Singapore August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Feline Lim SINGAPORE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Singapore's main opposition, The Workers' Party, has called for changes to be made to a draft foreign interference law, citing a need for more transparency, after experts and rights groups also raised concerns about...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - For the first time this school year, South Carolina schools can now require students and staff mask up. The shift came after a federal judge temporarily blocked the one-year state law limiting school mask mandates on Tuesday, ruling it violates the rights of students with disabilities. Proviso 1.108 states, “No school district, or any of its schools, may use any fund...

Police respond to the scene of an attack carried out by a man shot dead by police after he injured multiple people at a shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand, September 3, 2021. Stuff Limited/Ricky Wilson via REUTERS Sept 30 (Reuters) - New Zealand on Thursday passed a new security law to criminalise preparing a terror attack, tightening a loophole that was exposed by a man who went on to co...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, at right, displays the seven bills signed as he joins city leaders in Los Angeles in celebration of legislation to support the state’s expansion of mental health services and behavioral health housing as part of California’s package to address the homeless crisis on Sept. 29, 2021. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Ima...

Do I qualify for a religious exemption from masks and COVID vaccines? Here's what Iowa law says.  desmoinesregister.com

SEOUL, Sept 30 (Reuters) - South Korea's ruling party has backed down on a controversial bill to impose tougher penalties for the publication of false information, after critics at home and abroad labelled it a move to stifle a free press and critical coverage. Rather than put its proposed "fake news" bill to a vote this week, President Moon Jae-in's liberal Democratic Party agreed late on We...

“Supreme Court keeps abortion legal” by Adam Fagen / CC BY 2.0 Scene outside Supreme Court after decision on Texas abortion case On Wednesday, Sept. 1, a new Texas abortion law went into effect. The law bans abortions at the point when a fetal cardiac activity can be detected — an event that occurs approximately five to six weeks into pregnancy. Despite the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v...

This week’s Law & Order: Organized Crime finally will reveal, at least in part, what Stabler wrote to Benson in the letter he gave her last season. But before that happens, we have some thoughts. If for some reason you’ve been living in Italy for 10 years and aren’t quite sure what we’re talking about, let’s catch up. Law & Order: SVU‘s Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler were very close...

California governor signs laws aimed at homeless crisis  ABC News

The shift came after a federal judge temporarily blocked the one-year state law limiting school mask mandates on Tuesday, ruling it violates the rights of students with disabilities. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - For the first time this school year, South Carolina schools can now require students and staff to mask up. The shift came after a federal judge temporarily blocked the one-year state law li...