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Month: April 2024

House Republicans launch investigation into federal funding for universities amid campus protests

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are investigating the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war. They are broadening a campaign that has placed heavy scrutiny on how presidents at the nation’s most prestigious colleges have dealt with reports of antisemitism on campus. Several House committees will

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Court in the Central African Republic seeks arrest of ex-President Bozizé for human rights abuses

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and SAMBU ASSANA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — A spokesperson for an internationally backed court in the Central African Republic says the panel has issued an international arrest warrant for the country’s exiled former President François Bozizé for human rights abuses. The Special Criminal Court was set up

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Mississippi lawmakers quietly kill bills to restrict legal recognition of transgender people

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature will not take final votes on two bills that attempted to restrict legal recognition of transgender people. The bills died quietly when House and Senate leaders failed to agree on compromise versions before a Monday night deadline. Lawmakers were working on several

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¿Qué pasaría si la denuncia de Ecuador contra México ante la CIJ procede?

urielblanco (CNN Español) — Las tensiones entre México y Ecuador siguen latentes, y las últimas 24 horas son prueba de ello. El lunes, el Gobierno ecuatoriano presentó ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) una demanda contra México, al que acusa de violaciones a convenciones, acuerdos y obligaciones internacionales tras haber recibido como huésped en

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Woman was denied top-secret US security clearance for being a close relative of dictator

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — An unnamed woman was denied a top-secret security clearance this year due to being a “close” relative of an authoritarian dictator of an unnamed country, according to a publicly available document from the Defense Department’s Office of Hearings and Appeals. The administrative judge in the case ultimately decided to deny the clearance in what

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