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In North Carolina, vote will be a test of new, tighter election laws — and of voters’ faith

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DURHAM, N.C. — On the last Sunday of February, a sea of sharp suits and dresses flowed out of St. Joseph AME Church. Worship was […]

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North Korea hopes to build ‘socialist fairyland’ with new laws

A meeting of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang, North Korea, on September 7. North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament convened this week to pass legislation aimed […]

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‘Top Chef’ judge Gail Simmons calls Texas’s abortion ban ‘blatantly unconstitutional’: ‘Laws off our bodies’

Top Chef star Gail Simmons is speaking her mind in a new Instagram post opposing Texas’s anti-abortion law, SB8, which she says “denies women bodily autonomy.” “I […]

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No major organized religion objects to Covid vaccines. Will religious exemptions hold?

Religious exemptions could prove to be the latest legal battlefield of the pandemic, as Americans opposed to the coronavirus vaccines try to find ways around employer and government […]

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‘Domino effect’: Student loan giant loses another case over private debt discharge in bankruptcy

Student borrowers with certain types of private loans inched closer to being able to discharge that debt in bankruptcy after a New York court ruling. On Thursday, […]