Detroit teachers ending 2-day sick-out, fighting legislation
Teachers rally outside the school district’s headquarters, Tuesday, May 3, 2016,m in Detroit. Nearly all of Detroit’s public schools were closed for a second consecutive day Tuesday after hundreds of teachers called out sick over concerns that many may not get paid if the financially struggling district runs out of money. (Carlos Osorio/Associated Press) By Corey Williams and David Eggert | AP May 4 at 11:42 PM DETROIT — Detroit schools reopened Wednesday after teachers who had called ou..>> view originalFlorida Supreme Court considers overturning death sentences
By Associated Press May 5 at 3:39 AM TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The lives of nearly 400 death row inmates hang in the balance during oral arguments Thursday before Florida’s Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide if their sentences should be reduced to life in prison. The hearing comes in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that found Florida’s system of sentencing people to death unconstitutional. The nation’s high court said Florida’s system gave too much power to judge..>> view originalBush 41, 43 Do Not Plan to Endorse Donald Trump
President George H.W. Bush and his son President George W. Bush have no plans to endorse Donald Trump, their spokesman told ABC News. 0 Shares. Email. President George H.W. Bush and his son President George W. Bush have no plans to endorse ...>> view originalRobert Bennett, Utah senator ousted by tea party insurgency, dies
Robert F. Bennett, a business executive and three-term senator who epitomized Utah’s Republican establishment and became in 2010 the first high-profile political casualty of an anti-Washington fervor surging through his party, died Wednesday. He was 82. The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer and a stroke, the Associated Press reported, citing Bennett assistant Tara Tanner. The Bennett family has long been at the center of Utah’s political, religious and business elite. Mr. Bennet..>> view originalOfficials: Mesa athlete's indecent exposure charges could be reduced or dropped
Although a Mesa football player was booked on 70 counts related to a team photo that shows him exposing himself, the number of charges could be reduced or dropped, police and prosecution officials said. Hunter Osborn, 19, was arrested Saturday. Officers said he told authorities he was dared by a Red Mountain High School teammate to do the stunt when the photo was taken on the school bleachers in August. EARLIER: Prep football player charged with felony for exposing himself in team photo Copies..>> view originalHow Donald Trump defied all odds
Donald Trump pulled off one of the most unlikely electoral coups of modern times this week, toppling the political and media establishment to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. His domination of the primary season, which effectively ended Wednesday when Ohio Gov. John Kasich dropped the last remaining challenge to Trump, was unthinkable just weeks ago when the political conversation still centered on the potential of a contested convention.But a campaign initially dismissed ..>> view originalElection 2016: Former president talks of a return to prosperity as the Clintons hit LA
Former President Bill Clinton made the case for sending his wife to the Oval Office during a speech Wednesday that referred to the San Bernardino terrorist attack and avoided direct attacks against Republican Donald Trump. Clinton spoke to a crowd of cheering supporters at the Garden Suite Hotel in Los Angeles during an event recognizing Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. He spoke in San Diego earlier in the day. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to speak Thursday at..>> view originalUS gov't says North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights
Legislation has been proposed in states across the country to protect those who — due to religious beliefs — decline to employ or serve certain people. Critics say the laws are aimed at the LGBT community and are discriminatory. Recent laws denounced as discriminatory in North Carolina and Mississippi has prompted a growing backlash from opponents. The US Justice Department said Wednesday that North Carolina’s law limiting protections for LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws. North Ca..>> view originalDeadlines loom for answers in Clinton email probe as US judge sets discovery
Former secretary of state Clinton testified last October on Capitol Hill. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) A federal judge on Wednesday directed State Department officials and top aides to Hillary Clinton to answer questions under oath by June 29 about whether they intentionally thwarted federal open-records laws by allowing Clinton’s use of a private email server throughout her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. The decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington sets the ..>> view originalJudge: Plan for restoring Northwest salmon runs not enough
SEATTLE — A massive habitat restoration effort by the U.S. government doesn’t do nearly enough to improve Northwest salmon runs, a federal judge ruled Thursday, handing a major victory to conservationists, anglers and others who hope to someday see four dams on the Snake River breached to make way for the fish. In a long-running lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon in Portland, Oregon, rejected the federal government’s latest plan for offsetting the damage that dams in the Columbia Riv..>> view original
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