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California parents protesting LGBTQ student clubs organize walk out, keeping kids out of school

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A group of parents in the Elk Grove Unified School District, just south of Sacramento, will keep students home from district schools Friday in protest of campus clubs for LGBTQ students.

“We are urging parents to consider pulling their children from school on Friday, March 29, 2024, as a means of expressing support for parental rights and to ...Read more

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Judge rules that Gaetz, Greene can sue Anaheim, Riverside for canceled rallies

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A lawsuit from Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene against Anaheim and Riverside, accusing the cities of wrongfully canceling their rallies in 2021, can move forward, a federal judge has ruled.

The ruling rejects the cities’ attempts to be dismissed from the case. It does allow political advocacy groups that were also sued to be ...Read more

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White collar crimes: Sam Bankman-Fried's sentence is double Elizabeth Holmes'

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Cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried received more than double the prison sentence of Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes, but only a small fraction of the term slapped onto infamous financial criminal Bernie Madoff.

Bankman-Fried, the fallen “crypto king” and son of Stanford Law professors, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in ...Read more

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Mayorkas impeachment headed to Senate for April 11 trial

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson said House leaders will send the articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, which is expected to tee up a Senate trial as soon as the next day.

Johnson and 11 GOP-appointed impeachment managers, in a letter Thursday, asked Senate Majority Leader ...Read more

Resigned president is suing Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for defamation

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth is suing the theological institute he used to lead over allegations of defamation following his resignation, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.

Adam Greenway, the president of the seminary from 2019 to 2022, alleges in the lawsuit ...Read more

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DeSantis' office quietly backed Florida ban on wind energy

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TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office quietly helped write a bill to curtail wind energy in the state of Florida, email records provided to the Tampa Bay Times show.

A version of that bill is now awaiting DeSantis’ signature to become law, which will ban offshore wind turbines in state waters. It also proposes to delete the majority of ...Read more

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UNC board member predicts NC will 'follow Florida's path,' ban DEI at public colleges

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly’s short session is set to begin in less than a month, and there was a fresh sign this week that the state legislature could take up a hot-button issue in higher education: diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.

At a committee meeting of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, board ...Read more

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Alaska's new robotic dog will be used to haze wildlife at the Fairbanks airport

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A doglike robot that recently drew notice in the state Capitol and on social media is being tested to spook wildlife at Fairbanks International Airport while disguised as a coyote or fox, a state agency said.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities on Friday posted a short video on Instagram of the ...Read more

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Minnesota's 'archaic' technology wastes critical caseworker time, counties say

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MINNEAPOLIS — County workers and lawmakers have some choice words to describe the 25-year-old state information system used to manage child protection cases and social service programs: Slow. Archaic. A nightmare.

"It's the most vulnerable people that we have in the state of Minnesota that are in this system," Pine County Commissioner Terry ...Read more

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Muslim American appeals court nominee loses Democratic support

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s push to appoint the first Muslim American federal appeals court judge has run into more trouble in the Senate confirmation process, as Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada became the latest Democrat to announce she would not support the nominee.

Adeel Mangi’s bid for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...Read more

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From Boise, to North Idaho, to Montana: How suspects traveled after hospital ambush

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BOISE, Idaho — In less than two days, the men accused of coordinating a Boise hospital ambush before fleeing to North Idaho — where two men were killed — traveled nearly 1,000 miles, making an almost complete circle around the state before they were arrested two hours from where it all started.

The pair police credited with being at the ...Read more

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Homeland Security arrests Ohio man they say raped and murdered in Rwandan genocide

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The feds have arrested an Ohio man who they say participated in the Rwandan genocide by striking men, women and children on the head with a nail-studded club and then hacking them up with a machete.

The Rwandan genocide took the lives of about 800,000 Tutsis, the ethnic minority of the country, over 100 days in 1994. Boston-based prosecutors ...Read more

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Charges announced in Illinois stabbing attack that left 4 dead and 7 wounded

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ROCKFORD, Ill. — Authorities have announced charges against a 22-year-old Winnebago County man in connection with a stabbing rampage that killed four and wounded seven others Wednesday afternoon in Rockford.

Christian Soto was charged, Rockford officials said at a Thursday press briefing. Soto faces 11 charges of murder and attempted murder ...Read more

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City of Atlanta announces funding to help seniors with rising home costs

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ATLANTA — Funding to help protect homeowners and renters from being forced out of their neighborhoods because of rising home costs is on the way to the city of Atlanta.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens announced a new pilot program Thursday that will bring $550,000 to residents concerned about housing stability through Rocket Community Fund, a ...Read more

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Some of Florida's sickest kids are losing Medicaid coverage on Easter Sunday

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Kaitlin Maron found out her son was set to lose Medicaid coverage by chance, at a routine doctor’s appointment.

Her son’s physical therapist told the Port St. Lucie resident last week that his coverage would expire Sunday, his 10th birthday and Easter this year. Since then, she’s been scrambling to make sure that doesn’t happen.

“It�...Read more

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, may attend royal events amid chemotherapy

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Catherine, Princess of Wales may occasionally attend royal events as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy, palace sources say nearly a week after the royal went public with her cancer diagnosis.

Whether Kate Middleton, 42, will make an appearance at any such events will depend on how well she’s feeling, said Ailsa Anderson, a former ...Read more

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Court says South Carolina can use current congressional map

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WASHINGTON — South Carolina can use its current congressional map for the fall election, a panel of federal judges ruled Thursday, finding the U.S. Supreme Court has taken too long to decide an appeal over a ruling that the map is likely unconstitutional.

Last year, the three-judge panel found the state’s congressional map likely was ...Read more

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Third person shot at Denver homeless shelter in two weeks; suspect arrested

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DENVER — A man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder after a shooting at one of Denver’s hotel shelters, marking the shelter’s third person shot in less than two weeks.

Officers responded to reports of a shooting at a city shelter at 4040 N. Quebec St. — formerly the DoubleTree by Hilton — at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, said...Read more

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Key Bridge collapse minute-by-minute: Recordings, reports fill in timeline of Baltimore disaster

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BALTIMORE — Miguel Luna headed to his construction job around 6:30 p.m. Monday, where he and six other workers filled potholes overnight on the towering Francis Scott Key Bridge.

A 22-person Indian crew aboard the Dali, a hulking cargo ship involved in an accident in Belgian waters eight years earlier, prepared to set off on a 28-day voyage ...Read more

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Mourners flood wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller; Trump and Mayor Adams attend

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MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Mourners including former President Donald Trump and Mayor Eric Adams filled a Long Island funeral home to salute slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller days after he was shot to death during a routine traffic stop in Queens.

A sea of police officers filled the sidewalk and street outside the Massapequa Funeral Home for ...Read more