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Month: April 2025

A Georgia bill to ban DEI in schools and colleges nears passage, even as potential effects stay hazy

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers could pass a bill banning a sweepingly broad range of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in Georgia’s public schools, colleges and universities on the last day of their 2025 session. Republicans in Martin Luther King Jr’s home state muscled House Bill 127 through the Senate

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Federal judge says she will temporarily block billions in health funding cuts to states

By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer A federal judge will temporarily block President Donald Trump’s administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support COVID-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, appointed by Trump in 2019 but first nominated by former President Barack Obama, in Rhode Island said

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Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say

By WAFAA SHURAFA and NATALIE MELZER Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 27 or more sheltering at a school, according to Palestinian medical authorities, in a stepped-up offensive that Israel’s military said is intended to pressure Hamas and

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Georgia Republicans push last minute bill to limit public access to lawmaker and police records

By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America ATLANTA (AP) — With one day left of the legislative session, Georgia Republicans mustered together a proposal to limit public access to records about state lawmakers’ communications and police reports. The bill sidestepped the usual lawmaking process by tacking a new proposal onto a bill without sending it

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FACT FOCUS: Democratic leaders’ challenge to Trump’s election executive order misrepresented online

BY MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press Social media users, including elected officials, are erroneously claiming that top Democrats filed a lawsuit to allow noncitizen voting in U.S. elections. Many are also baselessly alleging the suit is further evidence of a Democratic plan to rig future races. But the lawsuit — brought by the Democratic National Committee,

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Tracking a cloudy and showery late week

Cool and cloudy conditions will linger across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas Thursday evening, ahead of returning rain chances forecast to develop overnight and continue through much of Friday. Overcast skies and mainly dry conditions this evening will give way to a 40% chance of showers late tonight. Low temperatures will fall into the lower

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‘You cannot annex another country,’ Danish PM tells US over Greenland

From Reuters Nuuk, Greenland (Reuters) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Thursday for increased Arctic defense collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed the US desire to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Frederiksen’s visit follows months of tension between Washington and Copenhagen over US President Donald Trump’s repeated

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Llega a Venezuela un vuelo con 313 migrantes; seis de ellos son menores de edad que viajaron solos

Por Ivonne Valdés, CNN Un vuelo con 313 migrantes venezolanos llegó este jueves al principal aeropuerto del país sudamericano desde Ciudad de México, informó el ministro del Interior, Diosdado Cabello. Entre las personas que regresaron a Venezuela hay 150 niños, 16 mujeres embarazadas y seis menores que viajaron solos, detalló Cabello. El lunes el presidente

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BC-KX-STOX-Final

New York(AP)Final stocks LastChg. AT&TInc 28.60 +.46 Altria 57.89 +.77 AmerenCp 101.68 +.84 AmExpress 247.82—27.43 ArchDanM 47.57 — .40 AutoZone 3826.15+16.89 BPPLC 31.34 —2.47 Boeing 150.91—17.65 BristMySq 57.82 —1.78 Brunswick 47.93 —7.63 Chevron 156.12—10.35 Citigroup 63.05 —8.71 CocaCola 73.18 +1.85 ConAgraBr 26.78 +.40 ConocoPhil 95.25—10.85 Corning 42.29 —4.25 CurtissWright 302.91—22.86 DTEEnergy 139.49 +1.49 DeereCo 447.45—23.45

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BC-KX-STOX-Final

New York(AP)Final stocks LastChg. AT&TInc 28.60 +.46 Altria 57.89 +.77 AmerenCp 101.68 +.84 AmExpress 247.82—27.43 ArchDanM 47.57 — .40 AutoZone 3826.15+16.89 BPPLC 31.34 —2.47 Boeing 150.91—17.65 BristMySq 57.82 —1.78 Brunswick 47.93 —7.63 Chevron 156.12—10.35 Citigroup 63.05 —8.71 CocaCola 73.18 +1.85 ConAgraBr 26.78 +.40 ConocoPhil 95.25—10.85 Corning 42.29 —4.25 CurtissWright 302.91—22.86 DTEEnergy 139.49 +1.49 DeereCo 447.45—23.45

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