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Month: December 2023

San Francisco prosecutors begin charging 80 protesters who blocked bridge while demanding cease-fire

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled traffic for hours on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. Hundreds of demonstrators held a news conference outside the court before the arraignments of those charged began. Seventeen

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Kansas school district changes hair policy after Native American boy cut his hair to avoid punishment

By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — A school district in Kansas has changed its hair policy after the state’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said an 8-year-old Native American boy was forced to cut his hair to comply with his elementary school’s dress code. On Thursday, the Girard Unified School District (USD) Board of Education voted to remove the district’s dress code policy requirements

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Ruben Gallego is endorsed by Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, his ex-wife, in bid for Arizona Senate seat

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego has endorsed her ex-husband, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, in his campaign to move up to the Senate. The mayor’s decision to publicly back her former husband, while not surprising, will help him blunt a potential liability after the couple divorced weeks before

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Trump’s lawyers ask full appeals court to review gag order restricting his speech in election case

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to review a gag order restricting the former president’s speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election. The request Monday follows a decision by a three-judge panel of the

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After years of decline, the Biden administration says environmental enforcement is on the upswing

By MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site inspections of polluting industrial sites than at any time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s part of a broader Biden administration effort to reinvigorate environmental enforcement. Budget cuts imposed more than a decade ago

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