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Apr 25 2023
News
Minnesota graduation rates near pre-pandemic highs
Four-year graduation rates for Minnesota seniors rose again, according to data released by the Minnesota Department of Education. MDE says the 2022 graduation data shows the graduation rate for the class of 2022 was 83.6%, a .2% increase from 2021. MDE goes on to say that 3,840 students from earlier classes also earned their diplomas. Pre-pandemic the overall graduation rate was 83.8% in 2020
Fox9
Jun 02 2023
News
10 moments frozen in time from Golden Knights' run to Stanley Cup Final
Around this time in 2022, the Vegas Golden Knights were watching the Stanley Cup playoffs from home for the first time. Their No. 1 goalie and captain were both having surgery. Whispers grew if this was the beginning of the end of their dominance as a top team after their first five seasons in the league. So much for that. The Golden Knights are back in the Stanley Cup Final and four wins from
Las Vegas Sun
Jul 17 2023
News
BREAKING: Georgia’s top court rejects Trump’s bid to quash grand jury report
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 presidential election probe and to quash a special purpose grand jury’s final report that recommends people be indicted. Acting promptly to address Trump’s motion filed late Thursday, the state’s highest court said the former
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Apr 18 2023
News
The one thing Trump and McConnell agree on: A hatred for this group
Former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell don’t agree on much, but there’s still one thing that unites them: A disdain for the Club for Growth.
The conservative anti-tax group is once again at the center of an intraparty collision course. This time, it’s going up against two of the most powerful people in the GOP — the former president and the Senate
Politico
Apr 22 2023
News
Utah homes slide off cliff into canyon
Multiple residents in a Utah neighborhood evacuated after two homes slid into a canyon overnight, months after officials had declared the sites unsafe for habitation. Officials notified residents in Oct. 2022 that both homes were unfit for occupancy due to dangerous conditions resulting from shifting ground – the same conditions that led the homes to slide into the canyon early Saturday
Fox News (Online News)
Jul 17 2023
News
Alabama Republicans Are Daring the Supreme Court to Uphold Its Own Voting Rights Ruling
Alabama Republicans took a major step toward openly defying the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, advancing a new congressional map that fails to comply with the court’s landmark Voting Rights Act decision in June. In Allen v. Milligan, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered the state to draw an additional congressional district that gives Black voters a meaningful opportunity to elect the
Slate
Jul 17 2023
News
CD1 candidate allegedly submits fraudulent signatures, Jamestown officials investigating
Jamestown elections officials have asked police to investigate potentially fraudulent nomination signatures submitted by one of the candidates running for Congress. The town's Board of Canvassers met Monday morning and voted to refer the signatures to police, Board Clerk Keith Ford told The Journal. He declined to say which campaign submitted the page of signatures under scrutiny, or exactly
The Providence Journal
Aug 16 2023
News
Trump’s allies have long faced legal troubles, but this time is different because he is too
The power of the presidency always lures those seeking reflected glory. And Donald Trump’s riotous palace court – renowned for lax Oval Office walk-in privileges – was a pageant of characters who might normally have gotten nowhere near a president.
But the price for proximity to power in the most scandalous presidency of modern times came due just before midnight on Monday when 18 of
CNN (Online News)
Feb 21 2023
Headline Roundup
Liberal, Conservative Set to Square Off in Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election
A conservative and a liberal have advanced to the general election for a 10-year seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court.
The Details: The race between liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz and conservative Judge Daniel Kelly will determine the balance of power in the state's top court. The winner will succeed conservative Justice Patience Roggensack, who is retiring after 20 years.
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Wall Street Journal (News)
CNN (Online News)
Jun 09 2023
News
Democrats Push for Debt-Ceiling Overhaul Bill After Default Scare
Democrats in the House and Senate plan to introduce a bill Friday that would overhaul the debt-ceiling process, eager to capitalize on widespread anxiety in the party regarding the regular brinkmanship over the country’s borrowing limit.
Wall Street Journal (News)