UT Austin lays off around sixty staffers to comply with Texas Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ban
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How does Paris stay Paris? By pouring billions into public housing.
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US Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor slams appeals court and scolds fellow justices for ‘sowing chaos’ by allowing Texas to arrest and deport illegal crossers
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Oregon decriminalized drugs. Voters now regret it.
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A state by state review of how easy or difficult it is to enforce open records laws in the US reveals many obstacles
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A legal historian who studies the US abortion battle explains why the Alabama state Supreme Court’s decision on in vitro fertilization is so momentous
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Florida’s recommendations give room for measles to spread
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Texas is right. The tech giants need to be regulated.
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The hottest trend in US cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing.
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What if US public housing were for everyone?
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Authorities in Medellín will meet representatives of embassies and popular dating apps this week after five foreigners were found dead in Colombia’s second city in the past seven days
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US Republican congressman from Georgia jokes about dropping migrant from helicopters echoing extreme right Pinochet meme about political violence
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What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account
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Palm Springs capped Airbnb rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall.
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‘America is under attack’: Inside the anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion crusade
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The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
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Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
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Three migrants drown at US border as Texas blocked their rescue
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The US Supreme Court will evaluate the constitutional validity of local ordinances barring homeless from sleeping on streets and sidewalks
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San Francisco and Grants Pass Oregon lawsuits about homelessness highlight this question: Do those who reject shelter choose homelessness?
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Top court clears path for Democrats to redraw House map in New York
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Oklahoma and Federal authorities crack down on Glock "switches"
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Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
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An enigma who lived frugally left his New Hampshire town millions it never knew he had
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Ontario to ban Canadian work experience requirement in job postings
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California public school students will learn about labor rights under first-of-its-kind law
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Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives ‘favoured certain developers’ in controversial Greenbelt plan, Ontario auditor general finds in scathing report
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Florida surgeon general rejects Food and Drug Administration guidance, urges people under 65 not to get Covid booster
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New Mexico Governor bans public carry of guns in Albuquerque
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The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever
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Bill to legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in California heads to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk
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Norway’s biggest cities set for leadership shakeup after local elections
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Tech billionaires launch California ‘utopia’ website
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A proposed law to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve, led to controversy
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Schoolkids in eight US states can now eat free school meals, advocates urge Congress for nationwide policy
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The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
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The new (improved?) face of public housing in Maryland
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One thousand inmates at a Wisconsin prison have been confined mostly to their cells for months, with little explanation
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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public-school student is going to get free lunch.
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Three-year-old migrant dies during trip to Chicago on bus sponsored by Texas
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Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
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"Blood on your hands" - The legal dimension of metaphors in the case of Zooey Zephyr
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First religious charter school in the US faces legal challenge
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Anonymous sources say Alabama political maps are part of a plan by Republicans in the state Senate to break Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a long-held goal of many conservatives
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Abortion advocates sue Alabama attorney general over prosecution threats for out-of-state travel
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Just give kids school lunch
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Orkney could leave the UK to become a self-governing territory of Norway after its council opted to explore alternative forms of governance
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The invisible victims of American anti-semitism
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Alabama town gets first Black mayor, but the previous one won't leave
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Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country
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