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11-16-2024 10:36 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
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In January, the U.S. government ran up against its legal borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion, and the Treasury Department began implementing “extraordinary measures” to avoid missing payments on its bills.
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Even among Black voters, there’s a wide range of viewpoints about the question of whether Biden should be the nominee.
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In November, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council voted not to revoke Cosgrove’s state peace officer certification. That meant he could apply for other law enforcement jobs in the state.
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Republican lawmakers in Missouri are pushing for a state takeover of the St. Louis police department. Republican officials in Mississippi and elsewhere also have acted this year to take control over some functions in Democratic-led cities and Black-majority cities such as Jackson, Mississippi where the NAACP have launched a lawsuit
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The NAACP is suing the governor and other officials over plans to change police powers in the state capitol and to authorize some appointed rather than elected judges. The civil rights group warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department
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The Supreme Court has upheld access to mifepristone, an abortion pill used in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. Lower courts had said that women seeking the drug should face more restrictions while the case continues, but the Supreme Court disagreed. The court’s action almost certainly will leave access to mifepristone unchanged at least into next year, as appeals play out, including a potential appeal to the high court
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Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work have been under federal investigation by a federal grand jury in Delaware since at least 2018. So far no charges have been filed.
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Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue checks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
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Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites.
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Media and McCurtain County, Okla., residents crowd into a commissioners meeting, Monday, April 17, 2023, in Idabel, Okla. (Lori Dunn/The Texarkana Gazette via AP)
The county commissioner was identified by a local newspaper as one of several officials caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people.
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