6 h. ago Uber and Lyft fighting against laws to make rideshare services safer in multiple states, according to reports

Threats to exit markets, in-app messages to riders and applying direct pressure to lawmakers are among the rideshare companies’ lobbying tactics

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8 h. ago Boiling point! Britain's heatwave sparked four days of fighting, invading daytrippers and parking chaos as high temperatures unleashed high tempers across the country

Parts of Britain have descended into lawless chaos in recent days as videos showed fights breaking out in Kent and Berkshire during the heatwave that saw temperatures hit 33C.

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11 h. ago Boiling point! Britain's heatwave sparked four days of chaos as high temperatures unleashed high tempers across the country

Parts of Britain have descended into lawless chaos in recent days as videos showed fights breaking out in Kent and Berkshire during the heatwave that saw temperatures hit 33C.

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3 d. ago Lords peers vow to fight law on assisted dying as one warns it may not 'see the light of day' despite narrow backing by MPs

In a sign of the concern about the Bill, it passed through the Commons by just 23 votes yesterday - 32 fewer than when MPs backed it in principle in November.

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3 d. ago Lords peers vow to fight law on assisted dying as they warn it may not 'see the light of day' despite narrow backing by MPs

In a sign of the concern about the Bill, it passed through the Commons by just 23 votes yesterday - 32 fewer than when MPs backed it in principle in November.

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3 d. ago Hearts 'still in fight' to keep Lawrence Shankland as swithering striker told what his best option is

Hearts boss provides update on future of star striker

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6 d. ago Andy Burnham's child sex abuse inquiry team 'resigned' after authorities 'lawyered up', MPs told

Baroness Louise Casey said that authorities in Greater Manchester were 'lawyering up' to fight over what data would be shared

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8 d. ago Accountants and lawyers team up to fight Trump tax provision

Professional services groups say they are unfairly targeted in Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’

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1 week ago She was Stephen Miller’s high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts

California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

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1 week ago She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts

California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

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2 w. ago Credit Suisse, SoftBank Fight Over Greensill Losses in $440 Million London Lawsuit

Credit Suisse, SoftBank Fight Over Greensill Losses in $440 Million London Lawsuit  Insurance Journal

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2 w. ago Real Madrid sex scandal: Raul Asencio SPLITS with his lawyer in trial over shocking video of minor allegedly having sex with three team

Raul Asencio has split with his lawyer as the Real Madrid defender fights to prove he is innocent of soliciting a sex video which allegedly included a minor. 

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2 w. ago Credit Suisse, SoftBank fight over Greensill losses in $440 mln London lawsuit

Credit Suisse, SoftBank fight over Greensill losses in $440 mln London lawsuit  Reuters

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3 w. ago Trump’s lawlessness is emboldening El Salvador’s brutal regime | Noah Bullock and Amrit Singh

The detention of a leading human rights lawyer is part of a wave of repression sweeping the country under Nayib BukeleThe Trump administration’s agreement with President Nayib Bukele to detain US migrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened Bukele’s autocratic regime. Last week, in a troubling sign of escalating repression, Salvadorian police detained Ruth López Alfaro, a prominent Salvadorian human rights lawyer at Cristosal, an organization fighting for human rights in Central America.Last year, the BBC recognized Ms López Alfaro as one of the 100 most inspiring and influential women in the world, describing her as “an outspoken critic of the country’s government and institutions” who “conducted a broad social media campaign to promote political transparency and public accountability overseen by the citizens themselves”. This year, on 18 May, Salvadorian security forces detained her at her residence on embezzlement charges and held her incommunicad...

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last month We have a chance to prevent AI decimating Britain’s creative industries – but it’s slipping away | Beeban Kidron

The government has doubled down on a plans that would allow mass cultural theft, but we are fighting it at every stageBeeban Kidron is a film director and crossbench peer in the House of LordsFor months now, legends of music, literature, product design, the visual arts and more have been sounding the alarm about the British government’s plan to undermine copyright law. The fight kicked off when the government launched a consultation into regulating artificial intelligence with its own “preferred” outcome: letting AI companies steal copyrighted work by default unless the owners of that work “opt out”. But opting out is impossible to do without AI transparency. The plan is a charter for theft, since creatives would have no idea who is taking what, when and from whom.When the government stoops to a preferred outcome that undermines the moral right to your work and income, you might reasonably be angered. As Elton John said last weekend: “The government have no right to do this to my so...

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