Alabama House Passes Bill to Protect IVF
Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services Thursday after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law.[#item_full_content]
US House Approves Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill to avert a partial government shutdown, sending the measure to the Democrat-majority Senate less than two days before funding for some federal agencies runs out.[#item_full_content]
Navy Officer Planning to Run Across US in World Record Time
An active-duty Navy officer will attempt to run from Los Angeles to New York City in record time.[#item_full_content]
Russian journalist fined for criticizing army
Russian authorities on Thursday fined journalist Sergei Sokolov, the editor of independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, for discrediting the army after detaining him, his newspaper reported. Sokolov said he did not agree with the charge against him. The case stemmed from an article published in Novaya Gazeta in December 2023 entitled “Nobody’s boys” about Russians orphans […]
Mississippi families honor recently identified Black soldiers at Civil War battlefield
Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. would continue allowing slavery […]
Belarus to consider ban on promoting homosexuality
A bill in Belarus that would outlaw the promotion of homosexuality and other behavior is set to land on lawmakers’ desks amid an unwavering crackdown on dissent initiated by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020. Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said Thursday the proposed legislation establishes administrative liability for anyone promoting “abnormal relationships, pedophilia (and) voluntary […]
Rhode Island NAACP president convicted of campaign finance violations in city council run
The president of the Providence NAACP violated state campaign finance laws when he ran for City Council in 2022, officials said. A judge convicted Gerard Catala, 45, of two counts of failing to file campaign finance reports as required by state law. Catala, who was ordered to perform 20 hours of public service, immediately appealed […]
VA legislators pass recreational marijuana sales bill, Republican Gov. Youngkin to review
Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday that, if approved by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, would allow recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year. Under the bills, the state would start taking applications on Sept. 1 for cultivating, testing, processing and selling the drug in preparation for the market to open May 1, 2025, with […]
Republicans unveil effort protecting federal lands from foreign investors, climate activists
FIRST ON FOX: Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate are introducing legislation Thursday that would restrict the federal government from allowing certain climate-focused companies from being publicly listed. The Protect America’s Lands Act — introduced by representatives Mark Green, R-Tenn., and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., in the House and Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., in the […]
Morto Paolo Taviani, maestro di cinema con il fratello Vittorio
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