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September decision finding Republicans discriminated against Black voters with reconfigured districts overruled on appealA Florida appellate court ruled on Friday that lawmakers do not have to redraw the state’s congressional map, reversing a September decision that found Republicans discriminated against Black voters when it reconfigured districts in the northern part of the state.The ruling from…

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Our writer pays tribute to the fiercely authentic Pogues frontman he first met selling records in the 1970sLast week, as the weather turned cold in the wake of Shane MacGowan’s passing, some lines from the Pogues’ first single, Dark Streets of London, kept echoing in my head.“Now the winter comes down, I can’t stand the…

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After months of Republican investigations, Mike Johnson told Fox he believed GOP conference has enough votes to launchThe US House speaker Mike Johnson signaled on Saturday that Republicans are nearing holding a formal vote to launch an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.“I think it’s something we have to do at this juncture,” Johnson said during…

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Beach volleyball and rowing team members say shabby facilities and inadequate supplies violate equal-treatment lawThirty-two female athletes filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon on Friday that alleges the school is violating Title IX.The plaintiffs, who are all either on the varsity beach volleyball team or the club rowing team, are accusing the school…

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One man died in a shooting that resembles recent murders in Los Angeles, where three unhoused men were killed in one weekFive unhoused people were shot in Las Vegas on Friday, one of them fatally, and police were searching for a lone suspect, authorities said.The shooting occurred around 5:30pm near a freeway overpass in the…

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Controversial EagleAI program connected to Trump supporter uses public records to flag people who shouldn’t be on the rollsA Georgia county on Friday agreed to use a controversial program to identify ineligible people on its voter rolls that is connected to one of the most prominent election deniers and a key figure in Donald Trump’s…

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