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• CFP Expansion Will Push Conferences to Reconsider Divisions

  17-06-2021 23:52
  
  Officials in charge of the College Football Playoff have opened two days of meetings in suburban Chicago.
  
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• How the Supreme Court's foster care decision hurts kids in the guise of faith

  17-06-2021 23:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  LGBTQ protections can coexist with faith-based adoption agencies if we all follow the golden rule of child welfare: Put the kids' interests first.
  
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• EPA Chief Reinstates Science Advisory Board He Dismantled

  17-06-2021 23:51
  
  The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he has fully reinstated one of two key advisory boards he dismantled earlier this year in a push for “scientific integrity” at the agency.
  
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• Banned Runner Still in Olympic Trials Lineup Pending Appeals

  17-06-2021 23:50
  
  Banned runner Shelby Houlihan is entered at U.S. Olympic trials.
  
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• DOJ: 2 States' Transgender Restrictions Unconstitutional

  17-06-2021 23:48
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas.
  
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• Conservation Groups Offer $15K Reward for Info on Wolf Death

  17-06-2021 23:47
  A coalition of conservation groups is offering a $15,000 reward for information on the poaching of the breeding female of the Wedge wolf pack in northeastern Washington state.
  
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• Conservatives pounce on Pelosi after she dodges question about whether 15-week-old unborn child is a ‘human being’

  17-06-2021 23:46 via rt.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is facing criticism after not directly answering a yes-or-no question on whether an “unborn baby at 15 weeks is a human being.”Asked the question during her weekly press conference, Pelosi said she is a “big supporter” of Roe v. Wade – the Supreme Court decision making abortion legal – but did not actually answer the question she was asked, which was related to the Supreme Court’s plan to take on a Mississippi la
  
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• Consultancy Firm ThoughtWorks' Parent Company Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO

  17-06-2021 23:44
  (Reuters) - Software consultancy company ThoughtWorks Inc said on Thursday its parent Turing Holding Corp had confidentially submitted paperwork...
  
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• President of Major Food Chain Gifts Employee Car After His Old Vehicle Goes Up in Flames

  17-06-2021 23:40
  
  Isaac Sanchez of Houston has worked at Papa John’s Pizza for 15 years. He is well-known by customers and coworkers alike — and more people than ever know about him […]
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• Northwestern Band of Shoshone Sues Idaho Over Hunting Rights

  17-06-2021 23:39
  The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is suing Idaho Gov. Brad Little and state wildlife officials in federal court, contending the state has wrongly denied the tribe hunting rights guaranteed by the 1868 Treaty of Fort Bridger.
  
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• Rower Embarks on Solo Voyage From Trans-Atlantic to France

  17-06-2021 23:36
  French Rower Guirec Soudée has started his rowing journey through the trans-Atlantic to France.
  
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• Minnesota House GOP Filibusters in Contentious Budget Debate

  17-06-2021 23:36
  The Minnesota House launched into a long, contentious debate that delayed its first floor votes on the big budget bills that lawmakers were unable to pass before time ran out on the year’s regular session last month.
  
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• California: People Must Look for Work to Get Jobless Aid

  17-06-2021 23:36
  California will stop giving unemployment benefits to people who are not actively applying for jobs.
  
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• Southern Baptists Move Left? SBC Refuses to Condemn CRT, Reaffirms Belief in Systemic Racism

  17-06-2021 23:35
  
  Some of the last holdouts of traditional Christianity are caving under the crushing weight of leftist ideology. While many denominations have fallen like dominoes in an embrace of homosexuality, critical […]
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• Migrants Will Replace Inmates in a South Texas Prison

  17-06-2021 23:35
  The state prison system is removing inmates from a South Texas prison to make room for migrants detained by state authorities.
  
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• 2 People Shot and Wounded in Surprise; Suspect Now Detained

  17-06-2021 23:31
  Authorities say a suspect has been detained for after two people were shot and wounded Thursday in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise.
  
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• Motorcycle Stunt Rider Dies Attempting World Record Jump

  17-06-2021 23:29
  A Grant County stunt rider has died from injuries sustained while attempting to set a world record motorcycle jump at an air show.
  
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• Ford Says Outlook for Its 2nd Quarter Is Improving

  17-06-2021 23:26
  
  Ford’s second-quarter outlook is improving, with large numbers of customers making reservations for four of its new vehicles.
  
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• Big New Orleans Health System Plans Merger Into Alabama

  17-06-2021 23:26
  A large New Orleans-based health system with hospitals in Louisiana and Mississippi plans a merger that will deepen its presence in Mississippi.
  
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• California Drops Workplace Mask Rule for Vaccinated Workers

  17-06-2021 23:17
  
  California regulators have approved revised worksite pandemic rules that allow fully vaccinated employees the same freedoms as when they are off the job.
  
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• Arkansas District Judge to Run for State Supreme Court Seat

  17-06-2021 23:16
  An Arkansas district judge is running for a seat on the state Supreme Court.
  
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• California Regulators Drop Mask Rules for Vaccinated Workers, Conforming to State and Federal Rules

  17-06-2021 23:15
  California regulators drop mask rules for vaccinated workers, conforming to state and federal rules.
  
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• Record-Breaking Heat Wave Across West Brings Wildfire Risk

  17-06-2021 23:12
  
  The National Weather Service this week warned that more than 45 million people in the Western U.S are under a heat advisory or excessive heat warning.
  
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• Beshear Signals Effort to Entice More People Back to Work

  17-06-2021 23:12
  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he plans to offer incentives to entice more people back to work to help resolve labor shortages.
  
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• University of Kansas Drops Controversial Dismissal Policy

  17-06-2021 23:10
  University of Kansas officials are saying the school will not use a policy that would have made it easier to dismiss tenured faculty.
  
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• State Eases Mask, Quarantine Guidelines, Contact Tracing

  17-06-2021 23:08
  With COVID-19 cases in New Hampshire continuing to decline, state officials are emphasizing more relaxed mask guidelines, recommending that anyone not showing symptoms of the virus can go without without wearing masks in most indoor and outdoor locations.
  
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• Lawyers Warn Lightfoot's Discriminatory Policies Toward Journalists May Continue

  17-06-2021 23:08
  
  Lawyers for Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Thomas Catenacci asserted that Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot could adopt discriminatory policies toward journalists in the future without a court intervening. In […]
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• Argument over guns, 2nd Amendment and militias prompts Democratic congressman to claim US 'won every major battle' in Vietnam

  17-06-2021 23:07 via rt.com
  
  Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu has adopted the strangest narrative in a bid to attack pro-gun conservatives: that the US actually won in Vietnam, and that it’s unpatriotic to say the enemy fought off the US military with cheap rifles.The Democrats are not traditionally the party associated with jingoism and chest-thumping military pride, but Ted Lieu (D-California) is apparently on a mission to change that.
  The bizarre story began on Wednesday when North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R) appeared
  
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• Officials: Man in Boy Road Rage Killing Admitted Firing Gun

  17-06-2021 23:04
  Prosecutors want a California man held without bail after charging him with the murder of a 6-year-old boy in a road rage incident.
  
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• Biden COVID Czar Chastises Americans, Says They Should Have Sacrificed More to Stop Pandemic

  17-06-2021 23:03
  
  President Joe Biden’s former coronavirus czar scolded Americans for not sacrificing enough during the past year to stem the pandemic. Andy Slavitt, who resigned as a senior adviser to the […]
  The post Biden COVID Czar Chastises Americans, Says They Should Have Sacrificed More to Stop Pandemic appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Case to Make GEO Pay Detainees Minimum Wage Ends in Mistrial

  17-06-2021 23:02
  A trial over whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state has ended with a hung jury.
  
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• Tropical Storm Warning Issued for Northern Gulf Coast

  17-06-2021 22:55
  A tropical storm warning has been issued for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as a potential tropical cyclone advanced toward the northern Gulf Coast.
  
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• Nebraska to Offer Additional Payments for 2019 Flood Relief

  17-06-2021 22:55
  Nebraska will pay out public assistance beyond what it normally offers to local governments hit by the 2019 floods.
  
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• Man Shot by Trooper for Not Dropping Shotgun Pleads Guilty

  17-06-2021 22:54
  A man who was shot by a state trooper after he refused to drop a shotgun has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
  
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• New U.S. House Bill Would Speed Special Immigration Visas for Afghans

  17-06-2021 22:51
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday would speed up the processing of special...
  
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• Atlantic City to Use Sirens to Mark 10 Pm Juvenile Curfew

  17-06-2021 22:51
  
  Sirens soon will sound each night in Atlantic City at 10 p.m., marking the arrival of a juvenile curfew prohibiting those under 18 from being on the streets.
  
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• Sponsors Defend NC Energy Bill Goals While Cooper Pans It

  17-06-2021 22:50
  Negotiators of a wide-ranging North Carolina energy bill to retire Duke Energy coal-fired electricity plants, expand solar power production but keep nuclear defended the measure’s goals as it got its first hearing.
  
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• Tropical Storm Warning Issued for Parts of the Northern Gulf Coast; Heavy Rainfall Expected Friday

  17-06-2021 22:48
  Tropical storm warning issued for parts of the northern Gulf Coast; heavy rainfall expected Friday.
  
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• Mets' DeGrom Gets Clean MRI on Shoulder, No Plans for IL

  17-06-2021 22:46
  
  Mets ace Jacob deGrom’s shoulder showed no abnormalities, but New York was not yet ready to commit to him taking his next turn in the rotation Sunday against Washington.
  
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• Biden Signs Bill Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

  17-06-2021 22:45
  
  President Joe Biden has signed legislation Thursday establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, saying he believes it will go down as one of the greatest honors he has as president.
  
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• Carlisle Steps Down as Mavs' Coach, One Day After GM Departs

  17-06-2021 22:43
  
  Rick Carlisle has stepped down as coach of the Dallas Mavericks, the second major departure for that franchise in as many days.
  
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• Top General 'Shocked' by AP Report on AWOL Guns, Mulls Fix

  17-06-2021 22:42
  
  The Pentagon’s top general says he will consider a “systematic fix” to how the U.S. military keeps track of its guns.
  
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• Missouri Responds Defiantly to Justice Dept. Over Gun Law

  17-06-2021 22:42
  Missouri’s Republican governor and attorney general have told the U.S. Department of Justice that they stand by the state’s new law that would ban police from enforcing federal gun rules.
  
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• Maryland State Offices to Close for Juneteenth

  17-06-2021 22:39
  State government agencies and offices in Maryland will be closed Friday in observance of the new Juneteenth National Independence Day.
  
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• 2 More Charged in Killing of Ex-Indiana U. Football Player

  17-06-2021 22:38
  
  Two more people have been arrested in the death of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest in Indianapolis last year following the death of George Floyd.
  
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• Last Detainees Moved Out of Troubled St. Louis Jail

  17-06-2021 22:37
  A troubled St. Louis jail has closed after years of criticism about its conditions.
  
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• USGS: Small Earthquake Rattles Indiana, Adjacent States

  17-06-2021 22:34
  The U.S. Geological Survey says a small earthquake centered near a western Indiana town rattled parts of Indiana and adjacent states Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Illinois Joins States With Vaccine Incentive Lotteries

  17-06-2021 22:34
  Illinois has joined the group of states offering millions of dollars in cash prizes and scholarships to encourage residents to get vaccinated.
  
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• Judge: Woman's Confession in Death of Texas Soldier Stays

  17-06-2021 22:31
  A  judge has denied a request to suppress the confession of a woman accused of helping kill and dismember Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was missing for about two months before her remains were found.
  
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• The Latest: Wolff Experiencing Ups and Downs at US Open

  17-06-2021 22:29
  
   Matthew Wolff already has experienced the ups and downs in golf at age 22.
  
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