Fired Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald is suing school for $130M for wrongful termination
Former Northwestern University football coach Pat Fitzgerald is suing the school for $130 million, saying his alma mater wrongfully fired him in the wake of a hazing and abuse scandal that has engulfed the athletic department
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Wisconsin Republicans want to make it a crime to be naked in public
Wisconsin Republicans want to make it a crime to be naked in public for any reason and for a child to attend any event, like a naked bike ride, where people don’t have clothes on
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Mexico rejects new border wall plan ahead of talks with U.S. officials
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday rejected U.S. plans to build new sections of wall
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Ukraine says Russian strike kills at least 51 in one of the deadliest attacks of the war
A Russian missile strike killed at least 51 people in a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Thursday, officials say, in what would be one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began.
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Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes
US Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York sent a letter Thursday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X CEO Linda Yaccarino expressing “serious concerns” about the emergence of AI-generated political ads on their platforms and asking each to explain any rules they’re crafting to curb the harms to free and fair elections
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Cornel West drops Green Party bid and will run for president as an independent
Progressive scholar Cornel West announced Thursday he will run as an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election, abandoning his campaign for the Green Party's nomination.
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Accountant's testimony sprawls into a 4th day at Trump business fraud trial in New York
An accountant who prepared Donald Trump’s financial statements is back on the witness stand for a fourth day in the New York civil trial examining whether the former president exaggerated his wealth
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Putin calls Canadian parliament's applause of Nazi veteran 'disgusting'
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Canadian parliament's standing ovations to honour a Ukrainian war
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Man with handgun seeking governor arrested in Wisconsin Capitol, returns with assault rifle
A state spokesperson says a man brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol and demanded to see Gov. Tony Evers and returned at night with an assault rifle
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Biden memo directs US agencies to restore 'healthy and abundant' salmon runs in the Northwest
President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin, a move that conservationists and tribes call a potential breakthrough
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Alabama gets new congressional map that could yield Democrats a second seat in the state
A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats in next year's elections.
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Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here's a rundown of major work stoppages happening now
It’s been a big year for labor organizing in the U.S. And from auto production lines to Hollywood, all eyes are on strikes taking the world of work by storm
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