Law
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US
Federal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun?
For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the ...
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Newyork
Holly Maguigan, Who Fought for the Rights of Battered Women, Dies at 78
Through her scholarship and her teaching, she made it possible for women in abusive relationships to claim self-defense when fighting back.
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World
In Canada, a Judge Sentences an Incel Killer as a Terrorist
A Toronto teenager who killed a woman in a massage parlor was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison. The case was the first time gender-based violence in the country was labeled terrorism.
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US
They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Law Made Decades Ago Might Not Help
First came the hurricanes — two storms, two weeks apart in 2020 — that devastated Honduras and left the country’s most vulnerable in dire need. In distant villages inhabited by Indigenous people known as the Miskito, homes were leveled and growing ...
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US
Biden Campaign Aims to Weaponize Trump’s Threat to Obamacare
The president’s aides quickly jumped on a statement by Donald Trump that he was “seriously looking at alternatives” to the health law.
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Books
Young Thug’s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know
Hip-hop collective or street gang? In a blockbuster case against the famed Atlanta rap crew YSL, headed by Young Thug, prosecutors say it is both.
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Books
Sean Combs Accused of Sexual Assault by a Second Woman
The rap mogul denied a rape accusation made in a new lawsuit that was filed days after Mr. Combs settled another suit in which the R&B artist Cassie had accused him of abuse.
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Newyork
Gen Z-ers and Millennials React to ‘L.A. Law’
Thanks to a splashy relaunch on Hulu, new generations have their first encounter with the soapy, sax-heavy legal drama that made its debut in 1986.
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Newyork
NYU Langone Fired Him for His Anti-Hamas Posts. He’s Suing.
The lawsuit, filed by the director of a cancer center, comes amid debate over how companies handle employees’ public remarks about the Israel-Hamas war.
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US
Courts Strike Down Gun Control Measures in Two States
The rulings in Maryland and Oregon come amid a shifting legal landscape in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that has imposed new limits on gun regulation.