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After Texas ruling, states seek to fill reproductive health data privacy gaps

In the absence of federal protections, legal experts have their eyes on states laws that dictate how companies can interact with reproductive health data.

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AI might not be coming for lawyers’ jobs anytime soon

When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. “Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted,” she recalls. So when it came time to choose a speciality, Mill…

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‘Increasingly likely potential’ of Palestine Action hunger strikers dying

Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.

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AI firms began to feel the legal wrath of copyright holders in 2025

Big AI firms have built their models by hoovering up copyrighted material from the internet as training data. They say this is legal, but copyright holders disagree - and this year they hit back in a major way

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Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won

Verizon changed policy after he bought the phone, wouldn't unlock it despite FCC rule.

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Who is Jimmy Lai, the media mogul convicted in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong’s High Court has convicted media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai.

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Jimmy Lai Faces Up to Life in a Hong Kong Jail After Guilty Verdicts

Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, was convicted of national security charges on Monday after spending decades supporting the city’s vanquished pro-democracy movement.

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Hong Kong court convicts pro-democracy newspaper founder Jimmy Lai

The verdict exemplifies the way Beijing, through Hong Kong’s national security law, has swept away any last remaining press freedoms and judicial independence in the city.

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Their diamond-rich land in South Africa was taken. Now they want it back

A two-decade old legal judgement should mean they are benefitting but they say they remain poor.

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Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong judges set to rule on national security charges

Verdicts on foreign collusion and sedition charges are city’s most closely watched rulings in decadesLong-awaited verdicts in Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s national security trial will be delivered on Monday, one of the city’s most closely watched rulings since its return to Chine…

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Hong Kong court set to rule in Jimmy Lai's landmark national security trial

A Hong Kong court on Monday found prominent China critic and media mogul Jimmy Lai guilty of collusion and sedition, in a landmark verdict that epitomizes the tensions between the city’s judicial autonomy and Beijing’s political grip.

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Jimmy Lai supporters queue outside Hong Kong court ahead of verdict

Media mogul Lai was arrested in 2020 under a national security law imposed by China.

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Hong Kong Court to Give Verdict on Media Mogul Who Took on China

Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, has spent years fighting the landmark national security case brought over his support of the city’s now vanquished pro-democracy movement.

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Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care

Campaigners call for quarterly data to be published in line with other departments instead of FoI routeHuman rights and refugee campaigners are calling on the Home Office to be transparent about the numbers of asylum seekers who die in its care by publishing quarterly data as other government depart…

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Blake Lively’s and Megan Thee Stallion’s Lawsuits Ask: Who Is a Journalist?

In court and online, the line between content creators, independent journalists, and legacy media is increasingly blurry

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Tennessee religious charter school fight could tee up next Supreme Court showdown

A new religious charter school fight is brewing in Tennessee that has the potential to challenge a deadlock vote at the Supreme Court earlier this year that denied the creation of a similar institution in Oklahoma. A lawsuit was recently filed in Tennessee to challenge a state law that bans religi…

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Hong Kong Court to Give Verdict on Media Mogul Who Took on China

Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, has spent years fighting the landmark national security case brought over his support of the city’s now vanquished pro-democracy movement.

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‘Outright evil:’ anguish and anger over South Africans tricked into fighting for Russia

Relatives fear for lives of men thought to remain trapped in war after allegedly being recruited by a daughter of Jacob ZumaMary hasn’t heard from her son since 27 August, when he told her he was worried he was being sent to the frontlines of Russia’s war with Ukraine. Since then she has been ill wi…

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Welcome to our age of impunity – where the ICC prosecuting atrocities is a rare feat | Simon Tisdall

The jailing of a Sudanese militia leader is an anomaly in a world where Putin, Netanyahu and yes, Hegseth, act without fear of international lawIt was a rare success for international courts struggling to resist a rising tide of official lawlessness. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, a leader of the n…

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‘Like a mini Louvre’: two generations of Rothschilds fight over treasure trove of artworks

Baronesses Nadine and Ariane de Rothschild at odds over future of Swiss chateau’s priceless contentsAfter three generations of genteel discretion bordering on secrecy, the international banking family the Rothschilds has been riven by rival claims to a multibillion-euro fortune including a vast coll…