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Bowman, in Fight for His Political Life, Embraces the Left’s Star Power
He cracked jokes on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” spit verses with the rapper Cash Cobain and spent the weekend rallying with two of the left’s biggest names: Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Overpowered on the airwaves and behind in the polls, Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York is leaning heavily…
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Heat advisory issued for D.C. on Saturday, when it could feel like 105-plus
The summer’s hottest weather so far is building over the Washington region, and the National Weather Service office serving the area has issued a heat advisory for Saturday, when heat indexes are expected to reach at least 105 to 107 degrees. Similar conditions are forecast for Sunday, when additional heat alerts are probable.The Weather Service…
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Man hit by roller coaster at Ohio amusement park
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man was hit by a roller coaster at Kings Island amusement park in Ohio on Wednesday night. The man was critically injured after being hit by the Banshee roller coaster at the amusement park in Mason, Ohio, according to CBS affiliate WBNS-TV. The man reportedly went into a restricted area of the roller coaster and was…
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Louisiana Requires All Public Classrooms to Display Ten Commandments
Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation on Wednesday requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in Louisiana, making the state the only one with such a mandate and reigniting the debate over how porous the boundary between church and state should be.Critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom…
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Panel recommends suspending Hunter Biden’s D.C. law license after conviction
The District’s law licensing committee for the D.C. Court of Appeals has recommended suspending the law license of Hunter Biden, roughly a week after he was convicted on felony gun charges in Delaware.Biden has been licensed to practice law in the nation’s capital since 2007, registered under his full name, Robert H. Biden.A jury in Wilmington,…
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Inmate charged in James ‘Whitey’ Bulger death walks free – The Boston Globe
“I feel amazing to be a free man,” McKinnon said after the hearing as he stood outside US District Court in Clarksburg with his two attorneys. Later in the day, he was scheduled to catch a flight to Florida, where he will live with his mother.Sean McKinnon with his lawyers, Brendan Leary and Katy Cimino outside a federal court in Clarksburg,…
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Paul Pressler, Disgraced Christian Conservative Leader, Dies at 94
Paul Pressler, a former Houston appeals court judge who spent decades helping conservatives gain control of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, only to become an embarrassment to its leaders after as many as seven men accused him of sexual abuse, died on June 7. He was 94.His death was not announced…
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Trump visits a Black church, addresses a MAGA activist gathering amid swing through pivotal
DETROIT (AP) — Donald Trump used back-to-back stops Saturday to court Black voters and a conservative group that has been accused of attracting white supremacists as the Republican presidential candidate works to stitch together a coalition of historically divergent interests in battleground…
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Texas high court declines to decide if embryos are people or property
HOUSTON — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider whether frozen embryos are people or property in the eyes of the law — a ruling that could have had dramatic consequences in a state where in vitro fertilization is booming.“I’m happy that IVF stays the way it is,” said Patrick Wright, the attorney for the prevailing party in the…
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Telehealth Startup Executives Charged With Fraud Over Adderall Prescriptions
Tens of thousands of patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder nationwide could face disruptions to their care after two executives of a major telehealth company that distributed A.D.H.D. drugs were indicted on charges of health care fraud.The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that the chief executive and the clinical…
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