The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a major abortion case,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health, from Mississippi. The law in question, the Gestational Age Act, bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, and the court will decide if these restrictions on pre-viability on elective abortions are unconstitutional. The high court will review a lower court decision that blocked the law from being enforced.
BREAKING: the Supreme Court will hear a major abortion case, asking whether all pre-viability restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional. The case involves a Mississippi law than bans abortions after 15 weeks. #SCOTUSpic.twitter.com/D1EYIRcMkn Kevin Daley ?? (@KevinDaleyDC) May 17, 2021
Masks no longer required at Lee County School Board meetings
Published: May 13, 2021 5:42 PM EDT
Updated: May 13, 2021 7:54 PM EDT
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After a year of living with masks as a necessity, the CDC says people who are fully vaccinated can take them off almost anywhere.
The new guidance clears the way for a full-scale reopening, and doctors say people can return to doing the things they stopped doing because of the pandemic.
This announcement is welcomed news for many parents in Lee County, who have continued fighting for their students to not be required to wear masks in school.
One Lee County woman fought to attend a school board meeting without a mask and she won.
(Recasts with Zambia finance ministry statement, changes dateline to Lusaka, adds creditor comments)
LUSAKA, May 10 (Reuters) - Zambia’s finance ministry said on Monday that it had reached a broad agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on macroeconomic parameters, fiscal targets and policy objectives, during talks to secure a lending programme.
Both Zambia - Africa’s first pandemic-era sovereign default - and the IMF said more talks were needed to finalise a programme under the Fund’s Extended Credit Facility.
But the finance ministry said enough progress had been made to allow authorities to move ahead with preparations for debt restructuring talks with official and commercial creditors under a common framework backed by the Group of 20 major economies.
This week we are pleased to have a guest post from
Edward Heath and and regularly counsel clients on export control and anti-corruption compliance.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell) had entered into a $13 million administrative settlement with the U.S. government to resolve allegations of export control violations related to aerospace and defense technical data (specifically engineering prints for castings and parts for aircraft, gas turbine engines, and military electronics). Following a self-disclosure by Honeywell to the federal government, the State Department alleged that the company committed 34 violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) in connection with data exported to recipients in Canada, Mexico, Ireland, China, and Taiwan without required government approval.
11 May 2021 - 08:13 By Chris Mfula Zambia s debt had been considered unsustainable even before the pandemic struck, and missing a coupon payment on a dollar bond in November tipped it officially into default. Image: 123RF/Kevin George
Zambia s finance ministry said on Monday that it had reached a broad agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on macroeconomic parameters, fiscal targets and policy objectives, during talks to secure a lending programme.
Both Zambia - Africa s first pandemic-era sovereign default - and the IMF said more talks were needed to finalise a programme under the Fund s Extended Credit Facility.
But the finance ministry said enough progress had been made to allow authorities to move ahead with preparations for debt restructuring talks with official and commercial creditors under a common framework backed by the Group of 20 major economies.