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    Courage To Hope-Episode 82-Michael Courage To Hope-Episode 82-Michael

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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, the Pew Research Center asked public K-12 teachers, teens, and the American public about the ongoing scrutiny placed on classroom curricula, mainly regarding race and LGBTQ identities.Here's what teachers, teens and the […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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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 the enforcement of penalties in the case, including Trump's $354 million fine and temporary ban on running a business in New York.A lawyer for the defendants in the case asked Judge […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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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 Petito, Gabby Petito's parents, filed a lawsuit against Brian Laundrie's parents, Christopher and Roberta Laundrie, and their attorney, Steven Bertolino, for intentional infliction of emotional distress in March 2022. They claimed the […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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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 owner, the United States," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote on Tuesday.The case is separate from Navarro’s criminal contempt of Congress conviction, where he was sentenced to four months in jail and […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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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 poverty or are low-income, according to the Poverty Tracker Annual Report from Columbia University and the philanthropic organization Robin Hood.Researchers surveyed a sample of 3,000 New York households for three months to […]

todayFebruary 21, 2024

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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 to the investigation. She is now awaiting extradition before she is formally charged in Maricopa County, Arizona.Genetic genealogy databases were used to identify family matches to the profile of the baby's mother […]

todayFebruary 21, 2024

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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 in early 2020, Takeshi Ebisawa conspired to transport material containing uranium and weapons-grade plutonium believing it could be used by countries like Iran in the development of their nuclear-weapons program."It is chilling […]

todayFebruary 21, 2024

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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 of all migrants the organization has helped within 24 hours, according to court records.An attorney representing Annunciation House filed a lawsuit on Feb. 8 to delay the release of the records and […]

todayFebruary 21, 2024

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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 intended to explain similarities between the Black and Palestinian liberation movements, according to the groups.The graphic depicts a hand marked with the Jewish Star of David, with a dollar sign in the […]

todayFebruary 21, 2024

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