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GOP wants to end Russian oil imports to US, boost production

GOP wants to end Russian oil imports to US, boost production

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican elected officials across the U.S. are criticizing President Joe Biden over his energy policies and urging his administration to do more to ramp up domestic production as a way to help wean the nation and its allies off oil from Russia. The sanctions imposed on […]

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Utah lawmakers pass new media restrictions for House floor

Utah lawmakers pass new media restrictions for House floor

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tuesday, the Utah House of Representatives approved new rules limiting where members of the press can film and interview lawmakers, following similar action taken by the Utah Senate two weeks ago. The rules extend pandemic-era restrictions on when journalists can report from the floors of state […]

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FILE - An undated portrait shows Emmett Till. The 14-year-old from Chicago was visiting relatives in Mississippi in August 1955 when he was kidnapped, tortured and killed after witnesses heard him whistle at a white woman. Till's mother insisted on an open-casket funeral, and Jet magazine published photos of his brutalized body. Those images galvanized the civil rights movement. On Feb. 28, 2022, a Mississippi county approved contracts for a bronze statue of Till that will be put in a park. (AP Photo/File)

Mississippi county OKs contracts for Emmett Till statue

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Leflore County, Miss.  has approved contracts for a sculptor to make and install a bronze statue of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. County supervisors voted on the contracts Monday, about seven months after they initially […]

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NYCFC signs 14-year-old Maximo Carrizo to homegrown contract

NYCFC signs 14-year-old Maximo Carrizo to homegrown contract

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City FC signed 14-year-old midfielder Maximo Carrizo to a homegrown contract Monday, making him the youngest first-team signing in MLS history. Carrizo celebrated his 14th birthday on the same day he signed his contract, which runs through the 2027 season with an option for […]

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US states adding to financial squeeze on Russian over war

US states adding to financial squeeze on Russian over war

Seeking to tighten the financial squeeze on Russia over its war against Ukraine, governors and lawmakers in numerous U.S. states were taking actions Monday to pull state investments from Russian companies while encouraging private entities to do the same. The effect of sanctions by U.S. states often pales in comparison […]

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Madonna Pappan, top, hugs her 4-year-old daughter Charlie Pappan before speaking at a press conference at the Adobe Eco Hotel in Rapid City, S.D. on Thursday, March 21, 2013. Pappan is one of three mothers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in a class action suit filled by the ACLU on behalf of the Rosebud Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes. The tribes are challenging the state's practices and policies that they say violate the Indian Child Welfare Act.  (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)

Supreme Court to review Native American child adoption law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving a federal law that gives Native Americans preference in adoptions of Native children. Monday, the high court reported it would take the case that presents the most significant legal challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act since […]

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Utah lawmakers push to strengthen bullying reporting rules

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Friday, Utah lawmakers advanced a proposal requiring schools throughout the state to collect additional data on bullying, including bullied students’ race, gender, age and disability status. The proposal comes less than a year after a black fifth-grader from North Salt Lake City died by suicide […]

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‘We have to stand up:’ US governors impose sanctions on Russia

Some U.S. governors are taking matters into their own hands and imposing their own economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Sunday asked the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to remove Russian-sourced products from stores in the commonwealth. He said the board has already identified Russian-sourced […]

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Utah handling largest refugee resettlement in state history

Utah handling largest refugee resettlement in state history

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ahmad Naweed Shirzad was working on a documentary north of Kabul, Afghanistan, last year with his coworkers when he learned the Taliban were taking power in provinces throughout the country. As he and his crew traveled to Kabul to seek safety, Shirzad said they were […]

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FILE - An empty space on a liquor shelf where Russian vodka used to be located at The Sidetrack, a gay bar on the north side of Chicago, July 29, 2013. The United States and Europe are slapping official sanctions on Russian banks and tech companies.  But bars and liquor stores across America and Canada have found another way to punish Russia for invading Ukraine: They’re pulling Russian vodka off their shelves and promoting Ukrainian brands instead. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

Utah orders removal of Russian alcohol from state-run stores

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order Saturday requiring the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to immediately remove all Russian-made and branded products from its shelves. The move by Gov. Spencer Cox was in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and mirrors moves […]

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