The Daily Populous

Monday July 1st, 2024 night edition

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Sierra Leone’s parliament recently approved a law banning child marriage.

The law criminalizes marrying girls under 18 years of age.

Sierra Leone recently passed a landmark bill to ban child marriage.

The country has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world.

How easy will it be to eliminate the practice?.

Also we hear from the new chancellor for the University of Nairobi Professor Patrick Verkooijen.

Producers: Aime Liebowitz, Bella Hassan, Victor Sylver and Rob Wilson in London. »

West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege

Authored by cnn.com

Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor” on their farm, court documents show.

Madison Tuck, assistant prosecuting attorney for Kanawha County, West Virginia, told CNN Wednesday that the trial is set to begin on September 9.

Akers, referencing the indictment, said it alleges the children were “targeted because of their race” to be used “as basically slaves.”. »

The Supreme Court Just Killed the Chevron Deference. Time to Buy Bottled Water.

Authored by esquire.com
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And thus forty years of administrative law comes to a rude and abrupt end.

The decision further illustrates that the dedication of the carefully manufactured conservative majority to corporate oligarchy is utterly unshakable, expertise—scientific and otherwise—be damned.

What the hell he has to do with PFAS pollution or workplace safety in a chicken plant is beyond me. »

Silent Hill creator says he wouldn't be "unsatisfied" if Slitterhead was his last game because his "last mission" is to "leave a path for these younger creators"

Authored by gamesradar.com
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With such an influential resume behind him, the famed dev wouldn't be "unsatisfied" if it were to be his last directorial role.

"I opened up this studio and we actually have a lot of new staff coming in, younger staff.

But I think my last mission is to leave a path for these younger creators to work on what they want to.". »