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Month: September 2023

France’s public schools will enforce a dress code banning robes worn by some Muslims, president says

PARIS (AP) โ€” French President Emmanuel Macron says public school students wonโ€™t get past the door if they show up dressed in long robes mainly worn by Muslims. He says authorities will be โ€œintractableโ€ in enforcing a new ban on the garments when classes resume next week. French Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced four days

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El miembro de “Proud Boys” que rompiรณ la ventana del Capitolio el 6 de enero fue condenado a 10 aรฑos de prisiรณn

Sofรญa Benavides (CNN) — El miembro del grupo Proud Boy que atravesรณ una ventana del Capitolio de Estados Unidos con un escudo antidisturbios de la Policรญa el 6 de enero de 2021, permitiendo que la primera oleada de alborotadores irrumpiera en el edificio mientras los miembros del Congreso eran evacuados, fue sentenciado este viernes a

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Civil rights group wants independent probe into the record number of deaths in Alaska prisons

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) โ€” The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is asking the courts to order an independent investigation into the Alaska Department of Corrections after a record number of deaths were reported last year. The ACLU request came when it announced separate lawsuits against the state Department of Corrections on behalf of two

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Spain opens case against soccer chief for World Cup kiss. Luis Rubiales breaks week-long silence

By CIARรN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) โ€” A Spanish government legal panel is opening a case against suspended soccer chief Luis Rubiales. Miquel Iceta, acting minister of culture and sport, announced the move. Rubiales has come in for a storm of criticism and calls for his resignation for kissing a player

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Ohio police release video of fatal police shooting of pregnant 21-year-old Taโ€™Kiya Young

By Kristina Sgueglia and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Newly released police body camera footage shows an officer firing through the windshield of a pregnant womanโ€™s car after she was accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in a Columbus, Ohio, suburb last week. The woman, 21-year-old Taโ€™kiya Young โ€“ whose death her family called

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Sec. Buttigieg looking for reductions in unruly passengers, close calls after busiest air travel summer on record

By Greg Wallace, CNN (CNN) — As an increasing number of passengers are acting out on crowded aircraft this summer, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has an admonition for passengers. โ€œIf youโ€™re onboard an airplane, do not get in the way of the flight crew,โ€ he said Friday before boarding a flight at Oโ€™Hare International Airport

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Sofia Coppolaโ€™s โ€˜Archiveโ€™ features rare photographs of Kirsten Dunst, Emma Watson and Elle Fanning

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — With the deaths of the five blonde Lisbon sisters, the 1998 adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenidesโ€™ novel โ€œThe Virgin Suicidesโ€ from filmmaker Sofia Coppola told a tragic tale through gauzy, sunlit suburban scenes. Her characters in the movie, and her subsequent works including โ€œLost in Translation,โ€ โ€œSomewhere,โ€ and the soon-to-be-released

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โ€˜Trump isnโ€™t funding any of usโ€™: Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Some of Donald Trumpโ€™s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills โ€“ yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.

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Traffickers plead guilty to smuggling over $10,000 in endangered sea cucumbers

By AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) โ€” Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers โ€” which are prized in China for food and medicine and as a reputed aphrodisiac โ€” from Mexico. Zunyu Zhao and Xionwei Xiao were charged with conspiracy and illegal

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