JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — It could be mid-July before the fate of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ mid-summer bid to toughen state abortion laws is known. With senators back home in their districts, legislative leaders are surveying members to determine when they will be able to return to the capital city. On Tuesday, the chamber will […]
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USAST. LOUIS — The controversial Confederate Monument in St. Louis’ Forest Park will be removed by the end of the week under an agreement announced Monday. In a settlement between St. Louis and the Missouri Civil War Museum, the museum has agreed to remove the massive marker by the end of the day Friday —
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USAThere was nothing amusing about this young woman dangling from an amusement park ride on Saturday evening – but the resulting rescue was an inspiring example of humanity. Visitors of the Six Flags theme park of Lake George, New York were shocked to see a 14-year-old girl hanging from the Sky Ride gondola 25 feet
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USAHARTFORD, Conn. — There will be no Camelot in Connecticut in 2018: Ted Kennedy Jr. declared Monday that he is not running for governor. “I will not be a candidate for statewide office in 2018,” said Kennedy, a Democratic state senator from Branford. “I am deeply grateful to everyone who has contacted me and encouraged
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USAThe Supreme Court said Monday that most of President Trump’s travel ban executive order can go into effect, delivering the first major victory to the new administration on perhaps his most controversial policy to date. Justices said the lower court rulings that blocked Mr. Trump’s policy were far too broad, and said the president can
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected a major 2nd Amendment challenge to California’s strict limits on carrying concealed guns in public. The justices turned away an appeal from gun rights advocates who contended most law-abiding gun owners in San Diego, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area are being wrongly denied permits to
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In what some are calling a landmark ruling for religious freedom, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided in favor of a Columbia, Mo., church that had been denied state assistance to improve its playground. The high court’s 7-2 ruling in a suit known as Trinity Lutheran of Columbia v. Comer undoes
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USAWashington (dpa) – A health care reform bill proposed in the US Senate will leave 22 million more Americans without insurance within a decade, a non-partisan analysis said Monday. The figures released by the Congressional Budget Office will provide fodder to opposition Democrats, who uniformly opposed the measure, which they fear would hurt many Americans
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWhen the mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, was invited to speak at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the spring of 2016, few could have predicted that his visit—at the request of SF Hillel, a group for Jewish college students in the city—would result in a lawsuit being filed a year later. The mayor’s trip
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA century after the murder of Leo Frank, ‘Parade’ — now staged in Chicago — is still a devastatingly relevant piece of drama By Ronit Bezalel Patrick Andrews and Brianna Borger in ‘Parade.’ (Michael Brosilow) CHICAGO — Chicagoland theater goers have a must-see play in their midst. Even a century after the events that inspired
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARussia is planning to recall its U.S. ambassador linked to investigations to Russia’s alleged attempt to interfere in the presidential election. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak is being moved back to Russia after 10 years in his post, according to three sources cited by Buzzfeed, in the midst of ongoing investigations over Russia’s suspected actions in 2016.
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International, USAFormer president Barack Obama’s administration should have taken a stronger stance on Russia’s alleged attempt to influence the outcome of the U.S. election, according to the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Representative Adam Schiff said in an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that the then-administration’s failure to act sooner
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International, USAA U.S. official denied reports that Trump was considering pulling out of peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinians after a rift opened up in the first meeting between Trump aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat reported Saturday that the meeting between Kushner and Abbas had been
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, June 25, 2017 – Interracial marriages became legal nationwide in June 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, overturned Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law, and with it similar laws in roughly one-third of the states. Some of the state laws went beyond black and white, prohibiting marriage between whites and
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