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US Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker leaves role just months before FIFA World Cup
The federation did not specify where Crocker will be moving, but sources told ESPN that the former director is taking on a similar role in Saudi Arabia.
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Virginia ends state property tax breaks for Confederate groups
The state law specifically removes the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Memorial Literary Society from the list of exemptions to state property taxes, along with other similar groups.
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Erika Kirk skips Turning Point USA event in Georgia due to 'serious threats'
Kirk, the wife of late-Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, was slated to appear with Vice President JD Vance at the University of Georgia as part of her organization's campus tour.
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Newsom says Trump is sending 300 National Guard members to Portland
He argued that Trump is “using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens” and said the deployment was “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”
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New Wisconsin law heightens punishment for deepfake pornography
New law came after junior high student Bradyn Bohn died by suicide after he was the victim of sextortion.
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Arkansas school stops censoring student evangelism, pledges retraining after Gov. Sanders' threat
Arkansas Connections Academy backs down three hours after Sanders announces investigation, censored student's lawyers say.
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Pritzker: Trump to federalize Illinois National Guard
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will," Pritzker said. "It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will."
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Church of England names first female archbishop of Canterbury
Mullally was one of three women on the shortlist to replace former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who resigned his post last year over his handling of a physical and sexual abuse scandal.
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Texas AG Paxton launches investigation, orders localities to halt property tax hikes
The letters order the officials of each city to not implement the tax hikes and requests a range of financial information and documents be submitted to his office.
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Conservatives push Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger
In a letter to the Surface Transportation Board Friday, over a dozen groups endorsed the merger, which would link 50,000 route miles and 100 ports across 43 states into a single transcontinental rail system.
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‘Humane' approaches to encampments central to Pittsburgh clean-up success
Program has achieved a 93% reduction in homeless encampments in the city.
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Maine open enrollment policies rank dead last in the nation
Maine scored zero points in every category, alongside Alaska, North Carolina and Maryland.
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Vegas planning new casino to wrap around MLB stadium for city's newest professional sports team
Along Las Vegas Boulevard and on the site of the former mob-era Tropicana casino, the proposed resort casino by Bally’s would wrap around the formerly Oakland Athletics baseball stadium.