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All registered voters in California will continue receiving vote-by-mail ballots in future elections under a new law signed Monday. Ballots were first sent to each state voter in the 2020 election as a precaution to limit exposure to COVID-19 and continued this year during the recall election this month. Using a mail-in ballot is not mandatory, however election officials are required to send ...

Gina Rozman-Wendle, president of Chicago NOW, speaks at a news conference Monday about abortion rights. As the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term got underway Monday, a group of abortion-rights activists gathered downtown, warning of a possible return to the “Dark Ages” for women’s reproductive rights. “I’m very angry that we are facing the concrete possibility that in the immediate future, bir...

Some city and state workers around the country have already begun to resist workplace vaccination rules on religious grounds. Soon those rules will be the norm in the private sector too, with the Biden administration's announcement this month that businesses with 100 or more employees must require those employees to be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. NPR correspondents Andrea Hsu and Sh...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, September 24, 2021, Law Professor Linda Mullenix filed a motion for leave to file her second amended complaint against the University of Texas at Austin. The lawsuit, which has been pending since December 2019, alleges that the University of Texas School of Law has engaged in Equal Pay Act violations, sex discrimination, and retaliation...

PHOENIX – An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled that a law banning face mask mandates in schools violates the state constitution and can’t go into effect this week as scheduled. The mask mandate ban and other limits on COVID-19 mitigation efforts were passed as part of the state budget in June and had been scheduled to go into effect on Wednesday. “That law has been declared unconstitutional;...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs told WVLT News the county law department planned to file a motion to amend a federal judge’s order that temporarily requires masks in Knox County Schools. Jacobs said he met with the Knox County Law Department on Monday to discuss the move. U.S. District Judge J. Ronnie Greer ruled Friday that Knox County Schools must immediately requir...

OWEGO, NY – The Village of Owego is debating a flood mitigation law that could mean the end of a major affordable housing development planned for the village. Tioga Opportunities and Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services are working in conjunction with the Tioga County Land Bank to build a large residential complex along Liberty and Temple Streets. The Land Bank has already purchased 13 decrep...

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government ramps up to an expected six expulsion flights to Haiti and Mexico began busing some away from the bor...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker is spending this week sorting through the files of 123 17-year-olds with pending criminal cases in the county. By Friday, he must decide which should stay in adult court, where they could go to prison, and which should be moved down to juvenile court, where they’ll get another chance. “We’ve got homicides, we’ve got armed robber...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — State officials are reminding drivers and passengers in Connecticut the new rear seat belt law goes into effect Friday, Oct. 1. The new law, which Gov. Ned Lamont signed in July, requires all occupants in a vehicle, regardless of age, to wear a seat belt. Previously, passengers over 16 in the back seat were not required to buckle up. “Our goal is zero fatalities. Unre...