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Planned Parenthood sues Missouri over its newest abortion law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two Planned Parenthood groups sued the state of Missouri on Tuesday, arguing the state’s newest law restricting abortions is unconstitutional. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved law in question — Senate Bill 5 — this summer during a special session on abortion called by Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican. Planned Parenthood Great Plains

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‘Racist’ statue of Broward County’s namesake to be removed from courthouse

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Segregationist Napoleon Bonaparte Broward — the man the Florida county is named after — is no longer welcome in the Broward County Courthouse. A statue of Broward will be removed from the courthouse soon, county leaders said Tuesday, the latest casualty of a nationwide debate about whether it’s proper to commemorate

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KKK Targets High School Students in Recruitment Efforts

The Ku Klux Klan hopes to recruit future white supremacists at high school football games. The racist group distributed propaganda fliers at a Friday night football game at Gray’s Creek High School in North Carolina. The fliers showcased racist comments about Jews, Mexicans and Muslims written atop the Confederate flag, also attacking Black Lives Matter,

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Over a million Jews worldwide gear up for ‘Shabbat Project’

A kosher Shabbat dinner at a backpacker”s lodge in Dalat, Vietnam a 9,000 women-strong challah-baking event in Buenos Aires a glow-in-the-dark challah event in Costa Rica a binational gathering on the Mexican-US border a dinner for 1,000 Israelis in a shipping hanger in Tel Aviv and a Shabbat kept in full on the slopes of

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Sen. Bob Corker is saying what other Republicans will only whisper about Trump

WASHINGTON — At the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, Sen. Bob Corker reacted like most other Republicans to the daily White House outbursts and tweets. He largely withheld criticism and called for patience as the new administration settled in. Corker, though, stood out by sometimes letting slip what he was privately thinking — an eye

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Lawsuit filed after teen expelled for not standing during Pledge of Allegiance

DALLAS — Houston high school senior India Landry had sat through the Pledge of Allegiance in the classrooms of at least six teachers — about 200 times, she says, with zero trouble. That is, until the 17-year-old landed in Principal Martha Strother’s office at Windfern High School in Houston. As the Pledge of Allegiance streamed

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she’ll run again: ‘There’s still so much work left to do’

WASHINGTON — Longtime California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has made it official: She’ll run for a sixth term in 2018. “I’m immensely proud of my service in the Senate and all I’ve done to help the people of California and the nation. But there’s still so much work left to do, from ending gun violence, to

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1 dead, 1,500 structures lost in Northern California firestorm

One person has died and at least 1,500 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed as more than 14 fires ravaged eight counties throughout Northern California on Monday, authorities said. The death was related to the Redwood Valley fire in Mendocino County, according to the Mendocino County coroner’s office. The vast devastation over just

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Richard Thaler of US wins Nobel Economics Prize

US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for his pioneering work bridging the gap between economics and psychology, the jury said. “By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social preferences, and lack of self-control, he has shown how these human traits systematically affect individual decisions as well as market outcomes,” the

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