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Month: March 2021

Central Tennessee braces for more weather misery after weekend flooding killed 7 people and caused widespread damage

After enduring widespread flooding — that killed seven people, knocked out power to thousands and damaged homes and businesses — Central Tennessee is bracing for more potentially devastating rainfall. Over 2.5 million people across the region are under flood warnings through Thursday evening, according to CNN Meteorologist Michael Guy. Nashville and most of Central Tennessee

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CDC chief says latest Covid-19 numbers scare her. Here’s what could be ahead and how to change the country’s course

New Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are beginning to rise in the US again, one of the country’s top health leaders said Monday. The latest findings, shared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, may just be the start of what experts have for weeks warned about: another surge. A surge

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Authorities are searching for three teens who escaped from an Oregon correctional facility

Authorities are searching for three teens who escaped from a youth correctional facility in Oregon on Sunday. The teens assaulted a staff member and took their keys before leaving through a hole in the fence surrounding MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, Oregon Youth Authority spokesperson Sarah Evans told CNN. The teens, identified as Preston Andrizzi, 19,

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Planned Parenthood of St. Louis region files lawsuit against Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of St. Louis Region is suing the state of Missouri to get court expenses covered from a 2019 hearing over its license to perform abortions. Planned Parenthood won that 2019 lawsuit in May 2020. Planned Parenthood is seeking $88,213.69 in expenses to get the license

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Federal appeals court rules in favor of Ohio professor who refused to use student’s preferred pronouns

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally

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Michigan GOP chair calls top Democratic women ‘witches’ and quips about assassination of Republican congressmen

The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party faced swift backlash Friday for comments in which he called the three top Democratic women in the state “witches” and quipped about “assassination” as a way to rid the state of two Republican congressman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. Ron Weiser said in a tweet

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New head of diversity and inclusion at US Special Operations Command reassigned as military investigates social media posts

The newly hired head of diversity and inclusion at US Special Operations Command has been reassigned as the military conducts an investigation of his controversial social media posts, military spokesmen said Monday, including one that appeared to compare former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. On June 20, Richard Torres-Estrada posted a picture of Trump

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Federal prosecutors add sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell

Federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging she recruited and groomed a 14-year-old girl to engage in sex acts with Epstein as recently as 2004. Prosecutors allege Maxwell and Epstein recruited the underage girl to perform massages that turned sexual at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. In

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