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A Florida School Received a Threat. Did a Red Flag Law Prevent a Shooting?
The requests were granted. But the results of the search were not what the detective expected. Memories of Parkland Nationally, more than 20,000 petitions for extreme risk protection orders were filed from 1999 to 2021, according to data collected by Everytown for Gun Safety, an advocacy group. A vast majority of those petitions — more […]
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Why an Aging Casino Company Embraced Barstool’s David Portnoy
Regulators in 13 states have permitted Penn to offer Barstool-branded sports betting, with four states also allowing digital casino games. Penn also has introduced Barstool bars and sports-betting venues in 12 locations. The results for Penn have been mixed. The Barstool betting app is the seventh-largest in the country by revenue, according to research firm […]
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Biden Pardons Thousands of People Convicted of Simple Marijuana Possession
Udi Ofer, a Princeton University professor and former deputy national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said simple possession of marijuana is a crime “almost entirely prosecuted by the states.” The federal government tends to prosecute marijuana trafficking crimes, he said. Only 92 people were sentenced on federal marijuana possession charges in 2017, […]
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The ‘Cost’ of Voting in America: A Look at Where It’s Easiest and Hardest
Voters in New Hampshire and Mississippi face the highest personal cost in the country in terms of the time and effort required to cast a ballot, according to a new academic study. Voters in Oregon and Washington have it the easiest. And while residents of Georgia, Florida and Iowa face taller barriers to voting since […]
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California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars
California regulators on Thursday will vote to put in place a sweeping plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars, state officials said, a move that the state’s governor described as the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine. The new policy, detailed Wednesday morning in a news conference, is […]
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Kansas Votes to Preserve Abortion Rights Protections in Its Constitution
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Kansas voters resoundingly decided against removing the right to abortion from the State Constitution, according to The Associated Press, a major victory for the abortion rights movement in one of America’s reliably conservative states. The defeat of the ballot referendum was the most tangible demonstration yet of a political backlash against […]
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White House Retrofits Infrastructure Bill to Better Help Poor Communities
The Biden administration is starting a new initiative this week to ensure that the poorest communities in the United States have access to billions of dollars in funding from the infrastructure bill to replace their crumbling wastewater, drinking water and storm water systems. It represents a midcourse adjustment on the signature achievement of President Biden’s […]
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She Traveled 200 Miles for an Abortion She Never Wanted
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Madison Underwood was lying on the ultrasound table, nearly 19 weeks pregnant, when the doctor came in to say her abortion had been canceled. Nurses followed and started wiping away lukewarm sonogram gel from her exposed belly as the doctor leaned over her shoulder to speak to her fiancé, Adam Queen. She […]
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An Indiana Doctor Speaks Out on Abortion, and Pays a Price
Three weeks before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, donned her white lab coat, put her infant daughter into a front-pack baby carrier and joined a few colleagues who marched to the State Capitol, hoping to deliver a letter to Gov. Eric Holcomb. Signed by hundreds of health […]
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