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The military government in Myanmar has said at least 2,000 people were killed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit last Friday. “A death toll over 10,000 is a strong possibility,” according to the US Geological Survey.The Burmese army, which has previously downplayed civilian casualties after other large natural disasters, is not allowing foreign journalists into the country. From neighbouring Thailand, BBC Verify’s Nick Beake has been building a picture of the impact of the quake in the worst affected areas that we know about. Produced by Thanyarat Doksone. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Verification by Benedict Garman, Paul Brown, Kumar…
Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said on Monday, as the military issued new evacuation orders and said “intense operations” were planned in the south of the enclave.The latest proposals would leave open a final agreement over ending the Israel-Hamas war, which has destroyed wide swathes of Gaza, killed tens of thousands of people and displaced almost the entire population since it began in October 2023.The proposals foresee the return of half the 24 hostages believed to still be alive in Gaza, and about half the…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Mar 31, 2025 at 10:04 am The justice will hear oral arguments in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission and Rivers v. Guerrero this morning. Catholic Charities is one of three religious rights cases the justices will hear in the final weeks of the 2024-25 term’s arguments. The social ministry arm of the Catholic diocese in Wisconsin urges the justices to rule that the state violated the group’s constitutional rights when Wisconsin failed to give it a religious tax exemption from state unemployment tax. Each weekday, we select a…
Home Daily News Lateral hiring bounced back in 2024, especially… Careers Lateral hiring bounced back in 2024, especially for associates in BigLaw, new NALP report says By Debra Cassens Weiss March 26, 2025, 3:49 pm CDT Lateral hiring of law firm associates increased nearly 25% in 2024, far outpacing a much smaller increase of about 2% in lateral hiring of partners, according to a new report by the National Association for Law Placement. (Image from Shutterstock) Lateral hiring of law firm associates increased nearly 25% in 2024, far outpacing a much smaller increase of about 2% in lateral hiring of…
These are the predicted dates for Eid Al Adha 2025…W’re in the middle of Eid Al Fitr 2025 but everyone is wondering about the next public holiday in the UAE. The next one in the UAE will be two holidays together: Arafat Day and Eid Al Adha. First is Arafat Day, which falls on Dhul Hijjah 9. UAE astronomers have predicted that Arafat Day will fall on Sunday, June 16, but it’s dependent on the sighting of the moon closer to the time.Then Eid Al Adha will roll into Dhu Al Hijjah 10, 11 and 12.Current predictions show that the…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Lawmakers and advocates have slammed New York City Mayor Eric Adams and called for changes in the wake of ProPublica’s investigation into a secretive, problematic police unit led by allies of the mayor. ProPublica found that the mayor championed the New York City Police Department’s Community Response Team despite a pattern of aggressive and often abusive policing flagged by department officials. An officer in the unit killed a motorcyclist after swerving his police car into him. A team…
France’s Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her far-right National Rally (RN) party, in a case which could lead to her being barred from standing in the 2027 presidential election.The judge has not yet said what the sentence will be.Prosecutors last year said Le Pen’s punishment should be not just a €300,000 (£250,000) fine and prison term, but also ineligibility from running for public office for five years.Crucially, he said the ineligibility should kick in straightaway – and not be suspended pending the appeal that Marine Le Pen is expected to file if…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends in early 2029.”There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News. He also said that “it is far too early to think about it.”He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington, D.C., that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which…
Petitions of the week By Kalvis Golde on Mar 26, 2025 at 2:47 pm The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Nearly 25 years ago, the Supreme Court upheld a federal restriction on the amount of money political parties can spend at the direction of candidates for office. This week, we highlight petitions asking the court to consider, among other things, whether the justices should overrule that decision and hold that limits on these so-called “coordinated party expenditures” violate…
By David S. D’Amato I’ve spent much of my career in the legal industry as a lawyer and a law firm business administrator. I don’t have the demographic profile of a typical American lawyer or even a typical BigLaw business director. My parents, Italian Americans from Greater Boston (one of whom is a second-generation American) did not graduate from college, and no one in their families went to law school or became a lawyer. I graduated from law school in 2010, during one of the worst job markets of the past several decades—in the wake of a financial crisis that…