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Month: May 2023

Daniel Penny surrenders to police to face manslaughter charge in chokehold death of Jordan Neely on NYC subway

CNN, JUAN ALBERTO VAZQUEZ, WCBS, SAMANTHA MAX – WNYC, GOTHAMIST, GETTY IMAGES, LINDA WALSH PEREIRA, KENNETH VICK – PHOTOGRAPHY, Samantha Max – WNYC/Gothamist By Steve Almasy, John Miller and Kara Scannell, CNN Daniel Penny, a US Marine veteran who held homeless street artist Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York subway train

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Oregon GOP walkout threatens bills on abortion, trans care — and senators’ careers

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail hundreds of bills, including on gun control, gender-affirming care and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures. Democrats control the Statehouse in Oregon. But the GOP is leveraging

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Oklahoma governor wages war on PBS station after claiming it is indoctrinating children with LGBTQ content

By Oliver Darcy, CNN America’s most-watched PBS station is on the verge of going dark. The Republican governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, recently vetoed a bill that would have renewed the license and provided millions in funding for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, the statewide PBS network that reaches more than 650,000 viewers a week.

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Oregon GOP walkout threatens bills on abortion, trans care — and senators’ careers

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail hundreds of bills, including on gun control, gender-affirming care and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures. Democrats control the Statehouse in Oregon. But the GOP is leveraging

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Oregon GOP walkout threatens bills on abortion, trans care — and senators’ careers

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail hundreds of bills, including on gun control, gender-affirming care and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures. Democrats control the Statehouse in Oregon. But the GOP is leveraging

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