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New survey captures national divide on teaching race, LGBTQ issues in classrooms

New survey captures national divide on teaching race, LGBTQ issues in classrooms

www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Schools nationwide have been at the center of the country’s culture wars. Restrictions on education and programs relating to race, gender, and sexual orientation have been implemented in several states, while schools and libraries are facing increasing waves of book-banning attempts. In a new survey, […]

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Trump asks judge to delay the penalties in his civil fraud case

Trump asks judge to delay the penalties in his civil fraud case

Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News town hall at the Greenville Convention Center on Feb. 20, 2024 in Greenville, South Carolina. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The defendants in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case have asked the judge to delay […]

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Parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie reach settlement in emotional distress lawsuit

Parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie reach settlement in emotional distress lawsuit

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The parents of Gabby Petitio, the 22-year-old travel blogger who was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, settled Wednesday with Laundrie’s parents and their attorney in an emotional distress lawsuit and will avoid a civil trial, according to a statement. Nichole Schmidt and Joseph […]

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Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to return presidential records

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to return presidential records

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been ordered by a federal judge to return presidential records he has in his possession. Navarro, who was then-President Donald Trump’s White House trade adviser, “continues to possess Presidential records that have not been produced to their rightful […]

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Mother arrested in 2005 murder of newborn found in airport bathroom

Mother arrested in 2005 murder of newborn found in airport bathroom

James C Hooper/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Investigators believe they have solved a decades-old cold case, identifying the woman who allegedly killed her newborn baby and left her in an Arizona airport bathroom in 2005. The baby’s mother, 51-year-old Annie Anderson, is in custody in Washington state on a warrant related […]

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1 in 4 children in New York City are living in poverty, study says

1 in 4 children in New York City are living in poverty, study says

LAW Ho Ming/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Poverty in New York City is rising at a startling rate and it’s affecting the city’s most vulnerable residents — children, according to a newly released report. More than half of New York City residents, including a quarter of all children, live in […]

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DOJ charges Japanese Yakuza leader for allegedly attempting to traffic nuclear materials

DOJ charges Japanese Yakuza leader for allegedly attempting to traffic nuclear materials

U.S. Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, according to a newly announced superseding indictment. Prosecutors in Manhattan say that beginning […]

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Texas AG accuses Catholic nonprofit of ‘human smuggling,’ sues to shut it down

Texas AG accuses Catholic nonprofit of ‘human smuggling,’ sues to shut it down

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas Attorney General’s office is suing to shut down a well-known Catholic nonprofit that helps to shelter migrants in El Paso, Texas. Officials from the AG’s office visited Annunciation House on Feb. 7, demanding it provide extensive documentation that included the identities […]

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FBI offers $15K reward in search for missing 12-year-old girl

FBI offers $15K reward in search for missing 12-year-old girl

FBI (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The FBI announced on Tuesday that the agency is offering up to a $15,000 reward for any information that leads to the whereabouts of Lori Paige – a 12-year-old girl who has been missing from Tallahassee, Florida, since June 3, 2023. “The FBI will stop at […]

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Harvard officials denounce ‘antisemitic’ photo shared by student groups

Harvard officials denounce ‘antisemitic’ photo shared by student groups

Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Harvard University officials are denouncing a cartoon deemed antisemitic after it was posted and then deleted on social media by a student group collective. The infographic from the student groups Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization was […]

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