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Florida's Rejection of an AP African American Studies Course Is a Rejection of School Choice

Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis acting just like his opposition by attempting to dictate what students are permitted to learn?

Reason

Indigenous artists urge Australians to watch This is Australia video, inspired by viral Childish Gambino clip, on January 26

Rapper Beni Bjah and dance theatre company Marrugeku deliver a searing indictment in This is Australia: a reimagining of Childish Gambino's This is America that they're urging Australians to watch on January 26.

ABC News

High schoolers threaten to sue DeSantis over ban of African American studies course

Attorney Ben Crump announced a potential lawsuit against the Florida governor after the state rejected a new Advanced Placement course, which the College Board now says it will revise.

WEKU

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Pepper spray for the school run? The weaponised SUV set to terrify America’s streets

The extreme features of the Rezvani Vengeance – including electrified door handles and blinding strobe lights – are wholly in tune with lethal trends in the US market

The Guardian - UK

For older Asian American immigrants, ballroom dancing was supposed to be a safe haven

LOS ANGELES — When a gunman fatally shot 11 people and wounded nine others in Monterey Park over the weekend, it was more than just the latest tragedy in America’s horrific mass-shooting epidemic.

Los Angeles Times

Teegate: Video shows moment Rory McIlroy snubbed Patrick Reed before American threw tee

Reed approached McIlroy on the driving range in Dubai before being snubbed by the world No 1

The Independent UK

Guardian US announces Margaret Sullivan as new weekly columnist

Beginning this week, Margaret Sullivan, one of America’s leading journalists and media commentators, will join the Guardian US

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Overdue library book finally returned after 44 years and racking up £1300 fine

A team of librarians at Abilene Public Library in Texas, America, couldn't help but laugh when a man came to return an auto repair manual overdue by a massive 44 years

Daily Mirror

'Children of the State' examines the American juvenile justice system

In a new book, Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, looks at the evolution of the juvenile justice system in America — primarily through people, not statistics.

WEKU

US reroutes $72M in aid for wages for Lebanese army, police

The United States is rerouting $72 million of America’s assistance to Lebanon to help the cash-strapped government boost wages of its soldiers and police officers

The Independent UK

The vicious cycle of killer news costs

Research finds that thinking about daily political events evokes negative emotions — but increases engagement

Salon

Editorial: Missouri's abortion ban reads like a sermon. That's a constitutional problem

Among the problems with state abortion bans is that they are generally an expression of the religious convictions of the legislators who pass them. America isn’t supposed to be a theocracy. But challenging such laws as violating the separation of church and state is difficult because proponents can just claim…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: As California reels from its mass shooting, it's still safer than Missouri

Some might argue that the mass shooting that killed 11 people in California somehow proves gun restrictions don’t work. After all, California has the toughest gun-control laws in America. But even a cursory look at the data finds that tragedies like this are the exceptions that underscore the rule.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Vladimir Putin on ‘back foot’ with US, Germany and other allies sending tanks to Ukraine, says Rishi Sunak

US has joined Germany in promising battle tanks which Kyiv hailed as ‘an important step on the path to victory’ against Russia

Evening Standard

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Leeds United ace Tyler Adams on Aaronson relationship, shattering stereotypes and earning respect

Tyler Adams and Brenden Aaronson have become regulars in Leeds United's starting XI under Jesse Marsch.

The Conversation

Typical mass shooters are in their 20s and 30s – suspects in California's latest killings are far from that average

The two men who shot dead 18 people in separate incidents just days apart in California are the latest perpetrators in America’s long history of mass gun violence. But something about these public shootings, and the men held responsible, stands out.

Tribune News Service

After Taylor Swift ticket fiasco, Senate panel calls Ticketmaster a monopolistic anti-hero

WASHINGTON — For decades now, Ticketmaster has engendered bad blood from concertgoers angry over its fees but has managed to shake it off, growing into the largest ticketing company in America. But after crossing Taylor Swift fans, parent company Live Nation faced a Senate panel Tuesday intent on getting the…

The Conversation

Monterey Park: A pioneering Asian American suburb shaken by the tragedy of a mass shooting

For Americans of Asian descent, Monterey Park – a town near Los Angeles, located in the San Gabriel Valley – is a cultural center.

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Haggis to hit America for first time after 50-year ban

AMERICA’S decades-long ban on haggis could come to attend next year after Scotland’s biggest haggis producer said he wants the product on US…

Daily Mirror

James Corden's blow to plans to move back to abandoned UK £8million home

James Corden has been forced to change his big plans for his mansion in England, as The Late Late Show presenter knocks down his Berkshire property and begins to rebuild it ahead of his return home from America later this year

Roll Call

They sew 5 million American flags a year. Then politics happens - Roll Call

How does a national symbol go from the factory to the center of a firestorm? “The Flagmakers” documentary tries to find out.

WEKU

Central Kentucky church involved in temporary Ukrainian immigration program

The clock is ticking for Ukrainians who came to America under a program called United for Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Tennis sensation Ben Shelton reveals Australian Open is his first ever trip outside US

Ben Shelton will face Tommy Paul in an all-American quarter final clash at the Australian Open, following a fairytale run for the 20-year-old so far in Melbourne

Salon

Police thuggery is getting worse

"They're trying to George Floyd me," Keenan Anderson cried out as multiple Los Angeles police officers subdued him

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Why the Monterey Park shooting feels like an attack on Asian America

For thousands of fellow Asian Americans, Monterey Park is our home — even if we don’t live there.

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