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Legislation allowing school districts to expand fleets transporting students to school and home was promoted Monday as a way to fix bus systems hampered by long routes and too few bus drivers. Democratic Sen. David Yates, the bill’s lead sponsor in the Republican-led Senate, said improving student transportation is a nonpartisan issue. The bill has … Read more
Legislation portrayed as a market-driven, voluntary approach to expand access to paid family leave in Kentucky was overwhelmingly passed by the state House on Monday. The measure, which drew strong bipartisan support, sailed through the House on a 92-1 vote, sending it to the Senate for consideration. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers. House Bill … Read more
Current and former DHS officials are expressing concern over President Joe Biden’s assertion this weekend that he wants the authority to “shut down” the border.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad confirm three members killed during raid by undercover Israeli forces, some dressed as women or medical staff. Plus, shipwreck mysteriously appears on Newfoundland coast Good morning. Israeli security forces raided Ibn Sina hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and killed three Palestinians. Hamas has … Read more
Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Michigan man who threatened to execute President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, called for the killing of federal agents and judges, and suggested that a bomb would be dropped on Washington, D.C. Russell Douglas Warren, 48, was charged in the Eastern District of Michigan after a series of … Read more
A Texas school is punishing a teenager for wearing his hair in neat locs. How is this still happening in 2024? A Texas court is set to decide next month if one of its school districts can continue to punish a Black teenager for refusing to cut his locs. Since last August, 18-year-old Darryl George … Read more
Rogue messes in the Venice neighborhood have been labeled with accusatory messages. No one knows who’s behind them A street artist in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice is turning mounds of abandoned dog poop into tiny works of social commentary. For weeks, local residents say, pieces of poop on the side of the road … Read more
I’ve flipped between denial, acceptance and moaning about the loss of this lovely and useful thing. I just hope it will be appreciated in its next home My bike got nicked last week, which initially presented itself as an experiment in consciousness, a magic realist problem: it had to be there, because that’s where I’d … Read more
Senate Democrats are pressing the Biden administration to deschedule marijuana as the DEA considers rescheduling cannabis.
Yes, critics help us make sense of the millions of songs released every month – but the best writing transcends the music Last week, it was announced that the influential and widely read music website Pitchfork was being folded into men’s magazine GQ, with the loss of many jobs. The title, which started as a … Read more
