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Aug 03 2023
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Drag Performers Sue Over Texas Law Banning Sexually Explicit Performances In Public
LGBTQ+ rights advocates and drag queens alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block a Texas law preventing drag performers from engaging in sexually explicit displays in public. The lawsuit alleges that the law blocks Texans’ ability to free speech, threatens the lives of drag queens and could potentially outlaw cheerleading in public. Conservatives
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Jul 31 2023
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‘It was shocking’: 58-year Kansas City employee retiring as Yellow trucking shuts down
Marion “Mac” McWilliams gathered with fellow trucking employees for his retirement party Monday after 58 years at Yellow Corp., once one of the nation’s largest freight companies with a rich history in Kansas City. The event, though, was solemn: McWilliams, 82, was among 30,000 Yellow employees to lose their jobs in recent days as the company ceased regular operations and prepared to file for
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Apr 27 2023
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School staffers charged after 7-year-old special education student told to eat his own vomit
Five staff members at a suburban Indianapolis school have been charged with neglect or failure to report neglect after a 7-year-old special education student was told to eat his own vomit, authorities said. According to the Brownsville Police Department, video showed the incident and the involvement of the staff members. The Hendricks County Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday charged a teacher and
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Jul 31 2023
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Lawsuit seeks to block first religious charter school in the US
Nine state residents and the Oklahoma Parent Legislative Action Committee filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop the nation’s first openly religious charter school from operating. Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board had voted 3-2 last month to approve the application of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The plaintiffs, represented by organizations including Americans
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Jul 31 2023
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Scutari Named Acting NJ Governor, As Lt. Gov. Oliver Is Hospitalized
TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Senate President has stepped in as chief of state Monday, as Gov. Phil Murphy is on a vacation and Lt. Gov Sheila Oliver is undergoing medical care. Democrat Nicholas Scutari of Union County will assume the duties of Acting Governor, while Oliver is receiving undisclosed medical care at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, said Communications Director Mahen Gunaratna
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Jul 31 2023
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Trucking giant Yellow shuts down on verge of bankruptcy, Teamsters say
One of the country’s largest freight haulers is shutting down and on the verge of bankruptcy, dragged down by years of ballooning debt and a sudden loss of business. Yellow employs some 30,000 people, including 22,000 Teamsters. The union said it received a legal notice Sunday of the pending bankruptcy filing. The Nashville-based company did not respond to a request for comment. Formerly YRC
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Jul 31 2023
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‘Biden is Jimmy Carter of 2020s’: Chris Christie stops bashing Trump long enough to flip the script on CNN
CNN learned the hard way that Chris Christie is no fan of “Bidenomics” as the Republican presidential hopeful gave an answer that wasn’t what anchor Kasie Hunt was expecting. The former New Jersey governor continued his string of Sunday morning television appearances on “State of the Union” where he took a break from his nonstop bashing of former President Donald J. Trump to lower the boom on
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Jul 31 2023
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Trucking Giant Yellow Ceases Operations
Trucking Giant Yellow Ceases Operations By Todd Maiden of FreightWaves Yellow's bankruptcy filing could be announced Monday Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. ceased all operations at 12 p.m. Sunday, according to a notice on the gates at its terminals. Separate internal documents showed the procedures for closing the facilities as well as “talking points” to be used when informing union
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Jul 27 2023
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ACLU of Hawaiʻi files lawsuit against city for homeless sweeps, enforcement actions
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi is challenging the City and County of Honolulu's sweeps of homeless encampments. This lawsuit targets the city’s sit-lie ban, park closure hours and sidewalk nuisance laws. It requests the court stop these actions, "unless and until there is adequate shelter." "Our hope is that the court will vindicate the rights of our houseless clients, other
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Mar 22 2023
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DeSantis moves to expand Florida’s so-called ‘don’t say gay’ law through high school
The DeSantis administration next month could effectively bar all public school teachers from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, a move that would expand Florida’s controversial 2022 law and go even further than the legislation Republican lawmakers are pushing in Tallahassee this spring. A proposed State Board of Education rule, scheduled for a vote next
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