Billions in election bets are raising the stakes in the US presidential race politics Article 1648 words 28 votes
The insidious legal theory behind the US abortion rights rollback politics Article 1682 words 33 votes
German government plans to reform adoption law, allowing unmarried couples to adopt and a child to have two mothers politics Article 1300 words 31 votes
Swedish government accused of trying to ‘outlaw poverty’ over begging ban – critics say proposal may not be lawful and would not tackle root cause of vulnerability politics Article 542 words 36 votes
Young Donald Trump appointed US judge declares centuries old qui tam case practice unconstitutional politics Article 1981 words 32 votes
California just passed the Freelancer Worker Protection Act (SB 988) politics Article 730 words 17 votes
EU supreme court will hear arguments on whether Danish law limiting the concentration of ethnic minorities in certain neighbourhoods violates EU anti-discrimination law politics Article 206 words 5 votes
Mexico's Senate just approved changing the constitution politics Article 903 words, published Sep 11 2024 18 votes
California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes politics Article 677 words 30 votes
Norway's government wants to relax restrictions on abortion to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the eighteenth week of gestation politics Article 347 words 27 votes
Protections for police who report illegal or unethical behavior lag far behind politics Article 1045 words 22 votes
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation politics Article 1474 words 32 votes
Finland's deportation law puts EU's migration norms to the test – human rights organizations sound the alarm over the controversial measure politics Article 20 votes
National security or legal niceties? Norway picks a path – closing down opportunities for members of the authoritarian axis is not always as easy as it looks. politics Article 899 words 7 votes
Finnish lawmakers narrowly approved controversial bill that will allow border guards to turn away third-country migrants attempting to enter from neighboring Russia politics Article 536 words 11 votes
Finland's PM Petteri Orpo urged parliament not to weaken a deportation bill that would allow Finnish border authorities to refuse to accept asylum applications in certain circumstances politics Article 327 words 5 votes
The US Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision politics Article 721 words 67 votes
US Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside politics Article 363 words 35 votes
US Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Donald Trump faces politics Article 578 words 24 votes
In blow to Benjamin Netanyahu's government, Israel's top court rules state must draft ultra-Orthodox into IDF politics Link 54 votes
US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre Article 564 words 29 votes
Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication politics Article 637 words 46 votes
Illinois Democrats speedily change candidate law; Republicans call measure ‘election interference,' "undemocratic" politics Article 622 words 16 votes
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is weaponizing consumer protection laws against nonprofit organizations politics Article 3249 words 23 votes
France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots politics Article 1092 words 21 votes
The existence of a Roma police register is shocking but not surprising. It is directly linked to Norway's long history of antigypsyism. politics Article 1648 words 16 votes
7,000 Maui short-term rentals could be eliminated under new county bill politics Article 691 words 20 votes
Denmark to liberalize its abortion law to allow the procedure until eighteenth week of pregnancy politics Article 598 words 22 votes
US Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages politics Article 217 words 33 votes
Opinion: The many US campaign finance violations divulged in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial politics Article 1154 words 25 votes
Ronald Reagan-era emergency health care law is the next abortion flashpoint at the US Supreme Court politics Article 358 words 18 votes
Norway's top authority revokes decision by city to only take Ukrainian refugees – was contrary to the constitution and the Scandinavian country's discrimination laws politics Article 330 words 13 votes
Indiana appeals court upholds injunction on abortion ban, citing religious liberty politics Article 591 words 17 votes
Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use politics Article 432 words, published Feb 23 2024 72 votes
Brazil's military leaders told police Jair Bolsonaro involved in a plan to reverse 2022 election result politics Article 855 words 16 votes
Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time politics Article 892 words 13 votes
A state by state review of how easy or difficult it is to enforce open records laws in the US reveals many obstacles politics Article 3094 words, published Mar 10 2024 7 votes