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Department of Justice sues Maine for treatment of children with behavioral health disabilities

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Maine for what it described as unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-operated juvenile detention facility. Investigators say the actions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court’s 1999 Olmstead ruling, which aimed to ensure that people with disabilities

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Israeli soldiers rammed UN vehicles with bulldozer and fired shots before letting them go, says UN spokesperson

By Hira Humayun, Lauren Izso, Niamh Kennedy, Avery Schmitz, Richard Roth and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Shots were fired during the Israeli military’s hours-long detention of a convoy of United Nations vehicles in Gaza, the UN Secretary General’s spokesperson said Tuesday. The situation “escalated quickly” after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stopped the convoy

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Chiefs’ Marquise Brown ‘getting close’ to playing, though status for Week 2 vs Cincy remains unclear

AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs wide receiver Marquise Brown is “getting close” to being able to play, coach Andy Reid said Monday. But Reid declined to say whether there was a chance their big free-agent acquisition would be on the field for Cincinnati on Sunday. Brown dislocated the sternoclavicular joint in

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2 charged with soliciting attacks on minorities, officials and infrastructure on Telegram

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people who prosecutors say were motivated by white supremacist ideology have been charged with using the messaging app Telegram to encourage acts of violence against minorities, government officials and critical infrastructure in the United States. The defendants, identified as Dallas Erin Humber and Matthew Robert Allison, face 15 federal

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A federal judge tosses a lawsuit over the ban on recorded inmate interviews in South Carolina

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system’s baning on-camera, in-person interviews with inmates or recording their phone calls for broadcast. The American Civil Liberties Union wanted to air a podcast with a death row inmate and also represents a transgender

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