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Nantucket, Mass.—Police on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket say they contacted a charter flight company Monday after airport officials observed "similarities" with the flights that recently brought migrants to Martha's Vineyard last month. In a statement posted to the town's website, police said dispatchers were contacted by officials at Nantucket Memorial Airport Operations about the flight. "The purpose of the call was to inform the Nantucket Police Department that the reported scheduled flight had many similarities to the flight and incident that occurred on Martha's Vineyard," police wrote. However, police said the airport contacted the charter company. "They reported the chartered flight is a business flight for a group
KING-TV [Seattle, WA],
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Seattle—Nearly $900,000 in grants has been awarded by the city of Seattle's Department of Education and Early Learning (DEEL) to six Seattle organizations that support Black educators in their careers.
DEEL's goal for the funding is to increase educator diversity in K-12 schools in the city. According to the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, about 790 (21%) Seattle Public Schools classroom teachers and 29,000 (54%) students identified as people of color in the 2020-21 school year. DEEL and SPS partnered to have the teacher population better match the city's student diversity.(Snip)Chelsea Oguike, ACE Academy Black Education Coordinator, said the teachers she grew up with
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
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Facing a tough reelection fight, Gov. Brian Kemp has in the past year committed almost all of the $4.8 billion in COVID-19 relief money approved over his opposition by Congress in 2021. That means whoever wins the gubernatorial election in November will have little federal COVID relief money to spend on their priorities going forward. The Republican governor has allocated all but $150 million of the money, announcing over the past year police bonuses, high-speed internet and sewer projects, debit cards for low-income Georgians, money for housing and business programs, and desperately needed funding for Grady Memorial Hospital, among other things.
Breitbart Politics,
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Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday triumphantly celebrated President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon all federal convictions related to marijuana, calling for further legalization of the drug.
“Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed,” Harris said during an event in Austin, Texas, with for the NARAL Pro-Choice America and Groundwell Fund. But while Kamala Harris served as the Attorney General of California, 1,974 people were admitted for hashish and marijuana convictions, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.(Snip)Harris was mocked in 2019 after laughing about her marijuana use during an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” in which she admitted smoking it in college.
New York Daily News,
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Muri Assunção
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More than half of LGBTQ youth who came out before they were teenagers “seriously considered suicide” in the past year, new data released Monday shows. The data—released ahead of the 34th annual National Coming Out Day on Tuesday—analyzed the correlation between the age at which LGBTQ people in the U.S. decide to share their sexual orientation with others and the risk of suicide. National Coming Out Day is a day when the LGBTQ community highlights the power of visibility in the fight for equality. Researchers with The Trevor Project found that 56% of youth who came out before the age of 13 “had increased odds of suicide risk.”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jeb Bush slammed Donald Trump for claiming his dead father had taken White House materials to a Chinese restaurant combined with a bowling alley in a confusing defense for removing classified documents when leaving office. During a rally in Nevada on Saturday, Trump called for investigations into deceased President George H. W. Bush, who served from 1989 to 1993, as well as former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush questioned on Twitter 'what the heck is up' with Trump, and said the comments about his father were confusing. 'George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a
Daily Mail (UK),
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The prestigious Vanderbilt University has suspended gender altering surgeries at its medical center after outrage over claims the hospital 'chemically castrates' minors for financial gain. Vanderbilt University Medical Center [VUMC] confirmed it was freezing all 'gender affirmation surgery' on underage patients pending a review of their processes, in response to calls from Tennessee lawmaker to investigate the hospital. VUMC came under fire last month after conservative activist Matt Walsh released a 2018 video showing Dr. Shayne Taylor—an LGBTQ specialist at the hospital—touting the lucrative financial business of performing transgender surgeries. Walsh also sent a report following his own investigation into VUMC's trans program which found the hospital 'drugs,
Breitbart Politics,
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New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams wants $1 billion from other Americans to subsidize the city’s economic strategy of importing penniless immigrants for use by New York’s business leaders.
“We need help—and we need to now,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a Friday press conference, adding: Today we’re issuing a clear message—[the] time for aid to New York is now. We need help from the federal government. We ned help from the state of New York. Our city is doing our part and now others must step up and join us …. We need those to come through.(Snip)“We expect to spend at least $1 billion
Washington Times,
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A new cobalt mine, the first in decades, opened in Idaho Friday to meet the demand for a key rare-earth mineral used in electric vehicle batteries and other military and aerospace parts. The mine, operated by Australia-based Jervois Global, is located near a defunct open-pit cobalt mine. In an effort to be more environmentally conscious, the new mine is mostly underground and will be capped once its operations eventually cease. Department of Energy Undersecretary for Science and Innovation Geri Richmond told the crowd gathered for the opening that “We’re talking about building a world class clean energy economy, and this mine, this project … is key
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Pittsburgh—An Italian heritage group in western Pennsylvania vowed to appeal a judge’s ruling that Pittsburgh officials can remove a 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus from a city park. Attorneys for the Italian Sons and Daughters of America have argued that the mayor doesn’t have the power to override an ordinance passed by the city council in 1955 that cleared the installation of the 800-pound statue of the explorer.(Snip)After protests about racial injustice and the statue in Philadelphia in June 2020, Kenney ordered the removal of a Columbus statue in Marconi Plaza saying it was a matter of public safety.
Boston Globe,
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Pfizer and BioNTech, the duo behind the world’s most widely used COVID-19 vaccine, and one of the most successful pharmaceutical products of all time, are developing a trio of new vaccines that could spur stronger, broader, and longer-lasting immunity to the coronavirus. BioNTech chief executive Dr. Ugur Sahin and chief medical officer Dr. Özlem Tureci—the husband and wife leaders of the German biotech company that partnered with Pfizer to develop the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty—said in an interview that clinical trials of all three shots are expected to begin over the next six months.(Snip)BioNTech made $21 billion from sales of that shot in 2021
New York Post,
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Susan Edelman
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Schools Chancellor David Banks quietly promoted Mayor Adams’ girlfriend to a top job at the Department of Education, just months after Adams hired Banks’ girlfriend as a deputy mayor, The Post has learned. Banks named Tracey Collins—Adams’ longtime partner and NYC’s unofficial First Lady—the DOE’s “senior advisor to the deputy chancellor of school leadership,” Desmond Blackburn. She started the new job in July, and got a giant, 23% raise to $221,597 a year, records show. Hizzoner named Banks’ girlfriend, Sheena Wright, and four other women deputy mayors last Dec. 21. Deputy mayors made $251,982 in FY 21. Both women’s advancement underscores the tight inner circle of the Adams administration.
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Under our current rules, doesn't this mean the head of FEMA is racist and needs to be fired immediately?