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Wisconsin appeals court overturns ruling allowing for emailing ballots to disabled voters

Mar 19, 2025

By  SCOTT BAUER Updated 3:49 PM CDT, March 12, 2025 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Wednesday that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election. The initial ruling by a Dane County Circuit Court judge allowing for the…

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What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities

Mar 19, 2025

Experts say this week’s mass layoffs could lead to less research and support for children nationwide. March 12, 2025, 6:34 PM CDT By Tyler Kingkade and Adam Edelman Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said, citing blows to the…

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DR Congo’s M23 rebels say they will no longer join peace talks in Angola

Mar 19, 2025

Talks, which the DRC government previously rejected, sought to resolve the conflict in the east of the country. Published On 17 Mar 2025 The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has announced that it is no longer participating in peace talks after earlier confirming it would alongside the Congolese government, which says it will still attend the…

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Israel warns more to come as airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza after two months of truce

Mar 19, 2025

Hundreds killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes: Palestinian authorities By James Mackenzie, Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose March 18, 2025 3:45 PM CDT Summary JERUSALEM/CAIRO, March 18 (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said, shattering nearly two months of relative calm since a ceasefire began, as Israel warned the onslaught…

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Entire families killed during Syria’s violence, UN says

Mar 19, 2025

By Reuters March 11, 20251:00 PM CDT GENEVA, March 11 (Reuters) – Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on Tuesday. Pressure has been growing on Syria’s Islamist-led government to investigate after reports by a war…

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Which US companies are pulling back on diversity initiatives?

Mar 19, 2025

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 6:02 PM CDT, February 21, 2025 A growing number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in 2020. The changes have come in response…

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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped

Mar 19, 2025

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and REGINA GARCIA CANO Updated 9:21 AM CDT, March 17, 2025 The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the…

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‘More than brick and mortar:’ DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza near the White House

Mar 19, 2025

By ASHRAF KHALIL and JACQUELYN MARTIN Updated 4:57 PM CDT, March 10, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Starlette Thomas remembers coming down almost daily to the intersection of 16th and H streets, to protest police brutality and systemic racial iniquities during the summer of 2020. On Monday, the 45-year old Bowie, Maryland resident returned to the site of those…

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More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump’s anti-DEI campaign

Mar 19, 2025

By  COLLIN BINKLEY Updated 5:15 PM CDT, March 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students. The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month…

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