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Rep. Brownley Introduces Legislative Package to Protect Homeowners Targeted News Service (Press Releases) WASHINGTON, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) announced the introduction of legislation to make homeownership more affordable for working families and to restore the deduction for property and casualty losses for property owners who lose their home in a disaster. "The COVID-19 pandemic has created economic chaos for millions of American families," said Congresswoman Julia Brownley. "As our nation struggles to recover from the pandemic, we must take action to ensure a new foreclosure ...

Texas Supreme Court tosses restraining order against Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther Texas Supreme Court tosses restraining order against Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther Shelley Luther would have faced five more days in jail for opening her business despite restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic if justices had found the order legitimate. Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther reacts to seeing supporters after being released from Dallas County Jail on May 7, 2020 in Dallas. The Texas Supreme Court ordered Luther release.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) A Dallas state district judge was...

In 2017, Damon Allen, a state trooper, was gunned down during a traffic stop. The suspect was on pre-trial release after being arrested for assaulting a deputy. Gov. Greg Abbott stated that "as to these criminals, we're going to get them off the street and keep them off the street." The governor then attempted, in the 2017 and 2019 legislative sessions, to amend the pre-trial release statutes, but failed. A tragedy. Along came the infamous pandemic and the governor proclaimed the state of Texas to be in a disaster under the 1975 Texas Disaster Act. He quickly issued 12 executive orders regula...

Not more than 50 people will be allowed to be present at weddings and not more than 20 for last rites

Among committee’s key recommendations is to decriminalise defamation Pointing out that the right to dissent should be the central focus of press freedom, independent journalist P. Sainath struck a dissenting note in the report submitted by the Index Monitoring Cell (IMC), set up by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry with stakeholders, to improve India’s ranking in the World Press Freedom Index and to evolve an objective yardstick to gauge media freedom. “The right to dissent is very central...You know there are people filing FIRs and taking legal action against journalists (and o...