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Federal Judge Rules USDA Acted Unlawfully: Huge Win for Harvard Animal Law Clinic in Psychological Well-Being of Primates Case
March 31, 2023
Are you ready for some positive news about primates used in research? Well, buckle up! A federal judge in Maryland has recently ruled in favor…
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Harvard expert ‘takes issue’ with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta layoffs: Cutting jobs over email is ‘absolutely horrific’
March 30, 2023
As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to let go of 10,000 more workers in his company’s latest round of layoffs, a Harvard University expert says…
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Union-busting, to borrow from H. Rap Brown, is as American as cherry pie. Employers get charged with violating federal labor law in no fewer than…
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
The policymaking body of the federal courts recently issued revised rules requiring all judges to offer a fuller accounting of meals, trips, and gifts they…
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Dueling court cases in Washington state and Texas could determine legality of abortion pill
March 30, 2023
Two federal judges are poised to issue rulings soon in dueling cases that could dramatically affect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In Washington state,…
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USDA Acted Unlawfully In Denying Petition To Improve Lab Primates’ Treatment, Judge Rules
March 30, 2023
A federal judge has left little unsaid in her ruling that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted unlawfully when it denied a petition…
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Revisiting the Brock Turner Case
March 29, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In 2016, Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside…
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The last time Alibaba made a radical move to reorganise its business the Chinese tech group set in motion a train of events that led…
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Top law enforcement officers in red and blue states are leaning on never-before-tested legal strategies to probe the boundaries of reproductive restrictions nationwide since the…
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After Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed this month, one veteran adviser was picked to head the clean-up crews. Todd Snyder, an expert on…
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A number of women are in search of non-traditional relationships too, as seen in TLC’s latest show Seeking Brother Husband. The six-episode series focuses on…
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Puffer coat Pope Francis fooled many with his ‘drip.’ But experts say image underscores danger of AI misinformation.
March 29, 2023
Over the weekend, an image of Pope Francis spread like wildfire on social media platforms. In place of his daily attire of austere white cassocks,…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: Former President Donald Trump once promised that, under him, his supporters would “get tired of winning.” He must not…
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Howard Schultz Takes the Hot Seat
March 28, 2023
When Starbucks founder Howard Schultz appears before U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday, he can expect a…
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Deep freeze and data concerns test Southeast power market
March 28, 2023
When several large electric utilities launched a first-of-its-kind energy trading platform in the Southeast last fall, the pitch was simple: Lower energy bills and deliver…
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Israel’s Political Crisis Will Harm the Economy — In Time
March 28, 2023
Karnit Flug was the governor of the Bank of Israel, the nation’s central bank, from 2013 to 2018. “One of my biggest challenges was the…
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Are We Actually Arguing About Whether 14-Year-Olds Should Work in Meatpacking Plants?
March 27, 2023
An op-ed by Terri Gerstein: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas signed a bill this month rolling back the state’s child labor protections, making it…
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Support Grows to Have Russia Pay for Ukraine’s Rebuilding
March 27, 2023
When the World Bank released its latest damage assessment of war-torn Ukraine this week, it announced that the price of recovery and rebuilding had grown…
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On Friday, Michigan repealed an 11-year-old law that weakened unions’ power in the workplace. Known as a “right-to-work” law, this type of legislation has been…
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The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a state law that it said would limit competition for electric transmission projects, just as bidding is…
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Scientists have created mice with two biologically male parents for the first time – a significant milestone in reproductive biology. The team, led by Katsuhiko…