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Today Biden Takes Victory Lap on Debt Deal
A day after Congress passed the debt limit deal, President Joe Biden praised House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for their joint agreement to suspend the debt limit and reduce deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade.
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CNN Search for Train Crash Survivors in India
Rescuers in India are scrambling to find survivors after a crash involving three trains, killing at least 288 people and more than 1,000 injured, in one of the worst rail disasters the country has ever seen. |
Associated Press Blinken Warns Against Ceasefire
U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said Friday that the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms. |
CNBC The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged Friday for its best day since January as
traders cheered a strong jobs report and the passage of a debt ceiling bill that averts a U.S. default. |
The
Hill Ukraine Tries to Lower the Bar
Ukraine is facing sky-high expectations ahead of its upcoming counteroffensive, raising a litany of dangers if Kyiv fails to make major advances against entrenched Russian forces, and could hurt Ukraine’s international support moving forward. |
NPR No Divide on Teacher Pay
While there is a divide about what children are being taught among Republican and Democratic parents, there is sweeping respect and broad agreement that teachers are being overworked and underpaid. |
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Washington Post Georgia Trump Probe Expands
An Atlanta-area investigation of alleged election interference by President Donald Trump and his allies has broadened to include activities in D.C. and several states, according to two people with knowledge of the probe. |
The Des
Moines Register Iowa Caucus Must Be in Person
Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a law requiring the Iowa caucuses to take place in person, potentially escalating a fight with Democrats who plan to offer a mail-in caucusing option in 2024. |
MediaiteDeSantis on How to Pronounce His Name
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faces a question he probably never thought he would be asked on the campaign trail: “how is your last name pronounced?” after Trump has harped on this “issue” on multiple occasions.
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WHYY Yes You Should Flip Horseshoe Crab
Conservationists say it’s perfectly safe to give Horseshoe crabs a helping hand when the so-called living fossil flip their awkward and helpless bodies upside down and can’t get themselves right side up.
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The Wall
Street Journal Racial Preferences Won't End Easily
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to soon rule that Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and associated federal statuses by considering race in admissions. |
PoliticoAdvocates Dread Insinuations About DeSantis
Cofounder of the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy and one of the only openly autistic state legislators, finds herself pushing back against Trump supporters claiming DeSantis is “a little bit on the spectrum”.
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Daily
Mail Bud Light Marketer Remains Mum
Bud Light’s former marketing is taking a 'leave of absence' shortly after the company started to hemorrhage money following the controversial decision to include transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, in an advertisement. |
Vox Now Chick-fil-A is Woke?
Chick-fil-A’s decision to employ a vice president of DEI has prompted backlash from Republicans who now slam the company for being too “woke” for considering policies that support people of color and other underrepresented groups in the workplace.
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Chalkbeat
Chicago "I Won't Stop Teaching Civics"
U.S. history and civics teacher, Donald Z. Davis, refuses his students to leave his classroom without becoming “passionate public speakers about topics that matter to them” and “informed citizens”.
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Fox
News RFK Jr. Accepts Musk's Twitter Space Invite
Robert Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as a Democrat, challenging President Joe Biden, accepted an offer Friday from Elon Musk to appear on Twitter Spaces to discuss his candidacy. |
NBC
News 9% of Adults in 30 Countries Are LGBTQ
Ipsos surveyed participants in 30 countries and found that nearly 1 in 10 adults identify as LGBTQ, with Generation Z being two times as likely than millennials and four times as likely as Generation X or baby boomers. |
New York
Post Epstein's Final Days
Days before Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, the wealthy pedophile sat crouched in a corner of his Manhattan jail cell, covering his ears — tormented and sleep deprived from the incessant hiss of a broken toilet. |
Metro Pregnant Trans Man on Historic Glamour Cover
Kicking off Pride Month, Logan Brown makes history proudly posing with his baby bump, on the cover of Glamour magazine, after unexpectedly becoming pregnant with his partner Bailey J. Mills. |
WTOP
NewsNo Charges for Pence on Classified Docs The
Department of Justice has informed former Vice Present, Mike Pence’s legal team that, after an investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, no criminal charges will be sought.
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Books on the Move: A Response to the Relocation of Literary Works in Miami-Dade County By Kathleen Butterly Nigro, Ph.D.
In this exploration of the relocation of CRT books in a Miami-Dade County elementary school, educator Kathleen Butterly Nigro reflects on the necessity of confronting historical truths, promoting diversity, and fostering a more inclusive, comprehensive understanding of American history in our educational systems. |
For the
Left More Than a Dozen Gop
States Sue Biden Admin Over Recent Border Policy
Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and more than a dozen other GOP-led states are suing the Biden administration over a recent policy to address an expected surge of illegal migrants at the southern border, according to a statement from his office.
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For the
Right More than 16,000 people
have been evacuated from their homes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. More rain is forecast for the next few days, easing some of the pressure on the fire department. The fire department says it is still assessing the extent of the damage to homes and businesses.
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