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MINNEAPOLIS — While three Muslim council members had been away to look at the Eid al-Adha vacation, the Minneapolis City Council narrowly voted to kill a measure that might have put a hire management query on the poll this fall. ...

The variety of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked once more, rising by 9% since final 12 months within the newest marker of how deep the disaster is of individuals sleeping in vehicles, encampments or shelters in California. ...

A pair who work as cops in Daytona Beach, Florida, put their toddler in a jail cell as a means of punishing the kid for not being potty skilled, in line with a report. ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Democratic governor and Republican secretary of state teamed up Thursday to shortly implement a brand new state legislation geared toward defending home violence victims from their abusers. ...

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s claims that absolute presidential immunity and free speech rights protect him from the defamation claims of a New York columnist had been rejected Thursday by a federal choose. ...

A former sheriff's deputy accused of failing to guard college students throughout a 2018 mass taking pictures at a US college has been acquitted by a Florida jury. Gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 and wounded one other 17 when he opened hearth at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on 14 February, 2018. Scot Peterson, the varsity useful resource officer on responsibility, had been charged with 11 counts of kid neglect, culpable negligence and perjury.The 60-year-old put his head on the desk in entrance of him and sobbed with reduction because the choose learn aloud the "not guilty" verdict in courtroom in Fort Lauderdale in the present day. The verdict spared him a jail sentence of 97 years.After his acquittal, Peterson informed reporters that he ...

Black college students predicted minority enrollment at main universities will plummet within the wake of the Supreme Court’s determination Thursday placing down affirmative motion admissions insurance policies. ...

American universities should not contemplate race as a consider figuring out pupil admissions, in line with a landmark ruling by the United States Supreme Court.The ruling upends a precept generally known as affirmative motion which has been in place because the Sixties as a measure designed to extend range within the American faculty system. The 9 justices of the US Supreme Court had been contemplating two circumstances regarding admissions at Harvard and on the University of North Carolina (UNC).They dominated 6-2 towards Harvard and 6-3 towards UNC, siding with the Students for Fair Admissions group which introduced the circumstances.The group efficiently argued that the schools race-conscious admissions coverage violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act which bars discrimination...

The Tiffany & Co. flagship retailer in Manhattan noticed a part of its exterior blackened by smoke by an underground road hearth Thursday, prompting an evacuation and inflicting two minor accidents. ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was acquitted Thursday of felony little one neglect and different fees for his actions throughout the 2018 Parkland college bloodbath, concluding the primary trial in U.S. historical past of a legislation enforcement officer for conduct throughout an on-campus taking pictures. ...