CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s ban on transgender sports violates a teenage athlete’s Title IX rights, the federal civil rights act that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law could not be applied to a 13-year-old child who had …
WASHINGTON — Coal miners will be better protected from toxic silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of miners from a respiratory disease known as “black lung disease,” the Labor Department said Tuesday as it issued a new federal miner safety rule. The final rule, announced by Acting Secretary of Labor …
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A federal appeals court struck down West Virginia’s ban on transgender sports, finding the law violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools from JOHN RABY Associated Press April 16, 2024, 11:22 a.m. ET • 3 minutes of reading CHARLESTON, WV – A federal appeals court has struck down …
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DENVER — A couple who owned a funeral home in Colorado, where authorities last year found 190 decomposing bodies, have been indicted on federal charges that they improperly spent nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and other personal expenses, according to unsealed court documents Monday The indictment confirms allegations by …
SANTA FE, New Mexico – A movie gunman has received the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cameraman by Alec Baldwin on the set of a western, as authorities now turn their attention to prosecuting Baldwin himself. A New Mexico judge on Monday found that Hannah …
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Two Kansas women who disappeared while trying to pick up children for a birthday party two weeks ago were killed in a custody dispute involving a group of anti-government Oklahomans calling themselves “God’s Scoundrels,” officials said authorities on Monday. Their vehicle was found on March 30 off a rural highway in Oklahoma …
DENVER (AP) – A couple who owned a Colorado Funeral Home where authorities last year found 190 decomposing bodies, were indicted on federal charges that they improperly spent nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and other personal expenses, according to court documents unsealed Monday. The indictment confirms allegations by state …
NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary moment in American history, former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial begins Monday with jury selection. This is the first criminal trial against a former commander-in-chief and the first Trump’s four charges to go to court. With Trump as the presumptive nominee for this year’s Republican nomination, the …
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is making history criminal process will begin Monday with a simple but extraordinary procedural step that is vital to American democracy. A group of ordinary citizens — Trump’s peers, in the eyes of the law — will be chosen to decide whether the former president of the United States …
NEW YORK (AP) – The story of The Life of OJ Simpson was inherently cinematic – what began as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic suddenly turned into something much darker and more complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It’s no wonder, then, …
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