Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina released from prison 🏨🙌🏾
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🏛️ Politics
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented [recently] as the Supreme Court wiped out a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the right of a minor to go to court to obtain permission to seek an abortion without parental notification. Th[e] lower court decision, issued last April by the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, seems moot as a result of the Supreme Court’s momentous Dobbs ruling last June that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to abortion…(read more at Politico)
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About 72 percent of private-sector establishments reported little to no telework among employees in August to September 2022, compared to about 60 percent from July to September of 2021. Before the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the American workplace, some 76.7 percent of employers reported little to no telework among employees. (read more at The Hill)
🌍 World
Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina released from prison
Paul Rusesabagina, a businessman whose role in saving more than 1,000 lives during the 1994 Rwandan genocide inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, has been released from prison after his 25-year sentence on terrorism charges was commuted.Rusesabagina was accompanied by a US embassy official as he was moved from prison to the residence of Qatar’s ambassador in Kigali late on Friday, according to two senior Biden administration officials who briefed reporters in Washington. (read more at The Guardian)
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