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Woman, Boyfriend Arrested After Toddlers Injured, Later Die

December 14, 2022
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BUCKHANNON, W.Va.—A West Virginia woman and her boyfriend have been charged after two toddlers were hospitalized and later died, officials said. Ciera Nicole Gillespie, 25, and Thomas Wesley Cunningham, 27, were arrested Friday, news outlets reported, citing a statement from the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office. Gillespie was charged with child neglect resulting in death and…

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Texas Wins Legal Victory Against Biden Administration’s Push to Legalize Gender Transitioning for Kids

December 14, 2022
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Texas will not have to legalize sex-change procedures for children to receive federal funds nor adopt gender identity policies for the workplace. In a statement released Tuesday, Attorney General Ken Paxton declared victory in a lawsuit to stop “woke” federal agency mandates concerning sexual orientation and gender after the Biden administration declined to appeal a…

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Meeting With DeSantis, Researchers Decry Censorship in COVID Policy

December 13, 2022
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Michelle Utter, a health care worker and single mother of grown sons who are active-duty military, said she was in great physical shape—running, working out, and martial arts—until she took the Pfizer vaccine for COVID. Utter described the ordeal she’s been through for the last two years—physically, trying to do her job and facing resistance…

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Judge Rules Gascón Recall Group Can Examine Some Rejected Signatures

December 13, 2022
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A judge ruled last week Los Angeles County election officials must allow organizers behind the effort to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón to examine about 10,000 rejected signatures in a tentative ruling that permits the committee partial access to some voter records. The committee aims to identify enough signatures that were incorrectly removed…

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Gil Cedillo Defends Not Resigning From LA City Council Over Racist Conversation

December 13, 2022
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Just hours after his term ended, former Los Angeles City Councilman Gil Cedillo released a statement Dec. 12, defending his decision not to step down from his seat over his participation in a racist 2021 conversation that involved three other officials. Cedillo lost his re-election bid to Eunisses Hernandez in June—months before the conversation between…

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LA Council Meeting Again Devolves Into Chaos as Kevin de León Attends

December 13, 2022
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Embattled Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de León sat by himself in the council horseshoe Dec. 13, talking to staff and mulling over his options after he made his second consecutive appearance at a council meeting despite protesters and some of his colleagues making it known that he was unwelcome. Tuesday’s council meeting devolved into…

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‘The Christmas Hero’ of Arcadia Ignites Community Spirit With Annual Holiday Display

December 13, 2022
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After his wife was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, one 20-year Montebello school teacher made the “most difficult choice of [his] life” to walk away from his livelihood in order to take care of her, a choice he says led him down a new path to spread joy in his community. “It’s like a special…

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Orange County Transit Board Approves Labor Contract With Maintenance Workers

December 13, 2022
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Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) board members approved a new contract with its maintenance workers this week, ensuring that public buses keep running in the county. OCTA board members voted 13–1 to approve the contract during their Dec. 12 board meeting after Teamsters Local 952, the union representing the maintenance workers, ratified the contract over…

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UC Postdocs, Researchers Return to Work After Labor Contract Ratified

December 13, 2022
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University of California (UC) postdoctoral scholars and researchers resumed work this week after ratifying a labor contract over the weekend, but 36,000 graduate student workers continue to strike. Last month, 48,000 researchers and student employees across all 10 UC campuses launched a strike, demanding, in part, pay raises due to cost-of-living increases. UC officials struck…

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California Students Lose 5 Months Progress in Math Over Pandemic: Study

December 13, 2022
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California students lost nearly half a year’s worth of math progress from 2019 to 2022, according to a recent study measuring pandemic learning loss by researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities. The “Education Recovery Scorecard” study, published in October, used previous compared pre-pandemic academic progress to that made over the pandemic. The study found that…

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