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Hawley introduces bill to strip ‘woke’ Disney of special copyright protections
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The "Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022" would cap the length of copyrights given corporations by Congress to 56 years and retroactively implement this change on companies, including Walt Disney. "The age of Re...
Alabama lawmakers send two bills limiting transgender youth protections to governor’s desk
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Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the state's legislative session that target transgender children, including one that makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gende...
In Putin’s crosshairs, Baltic ambassadors praise NATO protections, push for more Ukraine aid
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Russian President Vladimir Putin "is [in] a war that he is waging in our almost neighboring country – [a] "country and people, which we know very well, which are very dear friends to us," Latvian Ambassador Māris Sel...
Texas files lawsuit over federal guidance that highlighted protections for pediatric gender-affirming care
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday he is suing the Biden administration over guidance from federal health officials that conflicts with his legal opinion that gender affirming procedures in childr...
Biden admin facing calls to give Ukrainians in US protections from deportation
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With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, groups are arguing that the U.S. should grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Ukrainian nationals already in the U.S. TPS protects nationals of designated countries living in...
Federal judge reverses Trump era wildlife decision, restoring protections for the gray wolf
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A federal judge reversed a Trump administration decision that removed the gray wolf from the endangered species list in the continental United States after a coalition of wildlife organizations argued the move serio...
Federal judge rejects Purdue Pharma’s settlement of opioid lawsuits over legal protections for members of Sackler family
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A federal judge has overturned the opioid settlement of more than $ 4 billion that gave the Sackler family broad protection against civil litigation and resolved all outstanding civil suits against OxyContin maker ...
Biden WH memo before Taliban takeover sought to end protections for Americans trapped abroad
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Biden WH memo before Taliban takeover sought to lift protections for Americans trapped abroadThe Biden administration moved in June to dismantle a system designed to protect American citizens trapped abroad — just mo...
Biden admin moved to dismantle protections for citizens trapped overseas months before Kabul’s fall: memo
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Fox News has obtained the June 11 memo sent around the State Department which gave the green light on the "discontinuation of the establishment, and the termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR...
Trump lawsuit against Big Tech could ‘break new ground’ on First Amendment protections: Parler interim CEO
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Meckler made the comment the day after Trump announced that he will lead a lawsuit over alleged censorship against Twitter, Facebook and Google, which are the three tech companies that removed him from their platform...
Transportation Department readies new airline consumer protections
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The way airlines handle extra, optional fees -- such as the charges to check a bag or reserve a specific seat -- could change under a set of rules being developed by the Biden administration. The rules -- requirin...
Education Department says Title IX protections apply to LGBTQ students
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The Education Department on Wednesday issued guidance that Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, a reversal of the Trump administration's stance that gay and transgender ...
Biden administration plans to undo Trump-era curbs to Endangered Species Act protections
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The Biden administration announced on Friday plans to review and revise a handful of Trump-era regulations that critics feared rolled back protections for endangered and threatened species. The reviews, conducted by...
Biden administration says it will enforce federal transgender health care protections, undoing controversial Trump-era reversal
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Washington The Biden administration will work to protect transgender Americans from discrimination in health care, undoing a controversial Trump-era decision to nix federal protections for members of the community, t...
DHS reviewing humanitarian protections for Haitians and others in the US
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The Biden administration is reviewing whether to extend humanitarian protections to Haitians and other foreign nationals as part of the Temporary Protected Status program, according to Homeland Security Secretary Al...
Cuomo signs bill repealing nursing home COVID-19 liability protections
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The measure rolled back the "Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act," which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits, and comes as Cuomo’s administration is under fe...