Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement's power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. conservatives for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
Russia is facing deepening isolation and economic turmoil.
Russian prosecutors asked a court on Tuesday to sentence jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to an additional 13 years on fraud and contempt of court charges and to move him to a maximum security prison, Navalny's spokeswoman said.
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– The Senate approved a wide-ranging spending bill which includes $704.8 million in funding for court security, amid heightened concerns about threats facing judges.
– Some global law firms are moving to drop Russian clients, but professional ethics can complicate the process.
– This law firm's return-to-office plan includes "Zoom-free Wednesdays" to encourage employees to spend off-screen time together once a week.
A practice leader at the small law firm Paley Rothman was admonished by Washington, D.C., attorney conduct regulators for neglecting a client in 2020 amid a broader flood of matters tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a public notice released on Monday.
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr is asking lawyers and staff to come into its offices on Wednesdays and marking the day as "Zoom-free" so that colleagues spend time together rather than in meetings on their screens.
As soon as he learned abortion provider Planned Parenthood wanted to open a new clinic in the central California city of Visalia, resident Rod Greenfield wrote to all five city council members and urged them to deny the permit.
Several of Wall Street's biggest banks are planning on keeping a limited presence and holding on to banking licenses in Russia for the foreseeable future, even as they wind down their broader operations in the country, sources at those banks said.
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