Author: Carlos Hansen

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The Kansas House approved a bill on Thursday to limit diversity-focused hiring at Kansas universities, making it the latest attempt to restrict DEI efforts in education.  The bill passed in the Kansas House of Representatives in an 81-39 vote on Thursday, with five lawmakers absent from the vote. The bill would prohibit the…

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A fight evacuating 80 Americans from Haiti landed in Miami on Thursday, the second State Department-sponsored fight to South Florida this week as gang violence continues to ravage the Caribbean country. The State Department has urged all Americans to leave Haiti, evacuating the U.S. Embassy of non-essential personnel earlier this month. The capital of Port-au-Prince…

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Progressive House Democrats on Thursday heavily criticized a provision in the recently revealed $1.2 trillion spending package that would stop funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). A number of well-known progressives highlighted reductions in funding for the important United Nations agency that gives food, water and housing to Palestinians in Gaza…

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A district attorney in Oklahoma stated that he doesn’t intend to bring any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide. Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in a statement Thursday that the altercation between Nex and three girls was an “instance of mutual combat.” Kunzweiler also mentioned that Owasso police found a “suicide note” written by Benedict, although he chose not to disclose its contents. The state medical examiner determined last week that Benedict’s death was a suicide caused by a drug overdose.

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