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Court: Charter School Can’t Be Publicly Funded if It’s Religious – Win for Separation of Church and State
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA: The state’s plan to fund a Catholic online charter school hit a legal dead-end after the Oklahoma Supreme Court...
Pregnant, Brain-Dead Georgia Woman Becomes Focal Point in New Abortion Battle
Atlanta, Georgia, USA: A 28-year-old pregnant woman, declared brain-dead from a massive hemorrhage, is kept on life support despite her advance...
ProPublica/Invisible Institute Investigation: Chicago Police Department Repeatedly Failed to Adequately Investigate Sexual Assault Allegations Against Officers
Chicago, Illinois, USA: A ProPublica and Invisible Institute investigation reveals that over the past decade, the Chicago Police Department (CPD)...
Federal Judge Rebukes Administration for Violating Deportation Pause Order
Boston, Massachusetts, USA: A federal judge harshly criticized the Trump administration for deporting Dr. Rasha Alawieh—an immigrant medical...
Civil Liberties Groups Decry Trump’s “Multi-Front Assault” on Free Speech
Washington, D.C., USA: A coalition of civil liberties groups—the ACLU, PEN America, and Reporters Without Borders among them—issued a stark public...
New Orleans Jail Worker Arrested Over Mass Prison Break
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Ten inmates escaped the Orleans Parish jail last week after a maintenance worker allegedly shut off water in their...
Oklahoma School Standards Add 2020 Election Disinformation to Curriculum
Oklahoma, USA: The state’s new education standards mandate teaching alleged “irregularities” in the 2020 presidential election as legitimate...
Court Ruling Weakens Job Protections for Transgender Workers
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed Title VII’s coverage for transgender workers, ruling that while outright...
Trump Signs Ban on Nonconsensual Pornography, but Critics Worry
Washington, D.C., USA: President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan law criminalizing the spread of nonconsensual explicit images....
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