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Gabriel’s Law signed into law to protect kids in California welfare system, takes effect immediately
Law stipulates that social workers employed by county child departments who falsify documents are subject to felony imprisonment.
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Texas Gov. Abbott orders a halt on all data center permits
Monday’s action was the fourth directive Abbott has issued in four months related to data centers.
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Hunter charged with manslaughter after he allegedly shot a woman he mistook for a deer
Law enforcement provided live-saving medical care before the victim was taken to an area hospital, where the 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead.
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Report: 140 Californians a day flee to the land of no income tax – Washington
Experts are citing economic opportunities in Washington as the main driver. Susan Curran, director of the University of Washington' Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, expects the migration of Californians to Washington will continue at the current pace due to climate issues in California, which “will make portions of the state increasingly unlivable.”
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Appeals court reinstates 'cultural Marxism' lawsuit by silenced conservative professor
Bakersfield College history professor Daymon Johnson adequately alleged a "credible threat" of enforcement for criticizing DEI under California Education Code, 9th Circuit says.
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Third Biden witness invokes Fifth Amendment during House deposition
A statement from Comer’s office characterizes Tomasini’s and fellow witnesses who have pleaded the fifth as “a pattern of key Biden confidants seeking to shield themselves from criminal liability.”
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Illinois legislator slams $500k line item for closed college as ‘banner of incompetence’
Illinois legislators are raising concerns over a $500,000 budget item for Lincoln College, a private school that shut down in 2022. The earmark, added in a 2018 capital bill by then-state Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, was never funded but continues to appear in
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Man pleads guilty to sexual assault of female college classmate in 2013 after sending 'I raped you'
Ian Cleary will face a maximum possible sentence of four to eight years in prison when he is sentenced in October
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Five people charged in murder of UC Berkeley professor in Greece, including ex-wife
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, who taught quantitative marketing as a tenured associate professor at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was killed on July 4 in Athens by an attacker who shot him in the chest and back
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CA Bill creating LA fire rebuilding agency on hold over backlash
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office repeated the Los Angeles Times’ description of the RRA as “a new local authority” that would “buy burned lots, rebuild homes and offer them back at discounted rates to the original owners.”
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Education Department takes further steps to dismantle itself
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon explained President Donald Trump was angry and embarrassed over the decline in the quality of education children are receiving.
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While former NC Gov Roy Cooper considers a run for the Senate, others are waiting in the wings
There’s no dispute Cooper is investing time and resources into the possibility. How far, such as campaign teams, key donors and websites, are considered probable though unconfirmed.
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GOP lawmakers seek to revoke charter for major teachers union over concerns of its priorities
U.S. Rep. Mark Harris, R-North Carolina, and U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, introduced a bill, the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act, which would revoke the NEA's federal charter.