Already this year, Republican lawmakers have proposed about 50 bills in 20 states that would restrict initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Nikki Haley challenges Trump on her home turf in South Carolina
Haley skipped the Nevada caucuses, condemning the contest as rigged for Trump, and has instead focused on South Carolina, kicking off a two-week bus tour across the state.
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CEO of major Nigerian bank killed in California helicopter crash, director-general of WTO says
The helicopter went down Friday evening near Baker, a town of 700 people about 95 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
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Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city, kills 7
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said more than 50 people had been evacuated and that emergency workers had contained the blaze by Saturday morning.
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Gaza mediators and others warn Israel of disaster if it launches ground invasion on Rafah
Israel says that Rafah, which borders Egypt, is the last remaining stronghold for the Hamas militant group in Gaza after more than four months of war.
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Israel is holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, the main UN aid agency there says
The director of the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians says Israeli restrictions are preventing food for 1.1 million people from reaching war-battered Gaza.
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The Senate is pushing past far-right objections to aiding Ukraine. But next steps are uncertain
Even if the foreign aid package gets off the ground in the Senate after this weekend’s session of Sunday voting, the package still faces a deeply uncertain future in the House.
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Uproar over Biden classified documents report carries echoes of 2016 Clinton email case
In this year’s already heated election season, the Justice Department cleared Democrat Biden, too, of criminal wrongdoing but painted a politically damaging picture of his handling of classified information.
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In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium
A company’s plan in southeast Utah to extract lithium is adding to an anxiety familiar in this part of the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River.
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Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says
For thousands of years, Earth’s oceans have relied on a circulation system that runs like a conveyor belt. It’s still going but slowing.