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Bears, business group push to make Arlington Heights subsidy plan more than just X’s and O’s on a blackboard

No legislation has been filed and no sponsors have been named for a measure that would create a new class of tax incentive that would allow the Bears to pay to Arlington Heights a negotiated sum for the property taxes on the 326-acre site of the old Arlington International Racecourse.

Chicago Sun-Times

A surge in severe strep A infections has prompted health warnings. Here's what we know

Australian health authorities are raising awareness of the potentially deadly invasive strep A disease. So what is the illness, why is the invasive version so serious, and what could be behind the rise?

ABC News

The culture wars have their day in court: Where DeSantis has won and lost

The DeSantis administration has been engaged in legal battles over more than a dozen policies and administrative actions linked to the Florida governor’s “culture wars.”

Miami Herald

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Royal Mail delivery driver suspended after 'fighting with angry customer over parcel'

Mark Walker, 38, says he threw two punches at a customer who, he claims, had kicked his van and tried to hit him following a row over a parcel in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent

Daily Mirror

Postie suspended after parcel row ends in 'street fight with customer'

Police have been informed of the incident

Wales Online

Fans wrestle with a (largely) beer-free World Cup in Qatar

Qatar has presented its World Cup – the first ever in an Arab, Muslim nation – as a chance for different cultures to come side by side and get along

The Independent UK

Drugs boss' plot to fix trial by tampering with jury exposed when witness WINKED at juror

Jurors became concerned after spotting defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden nodding and winking at one of their number as he entered court

Daily Mirror

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Five facing jail for plot to fix drugs kingpin’s trial

Leslie Allen recruited a team of stooges to help him get off charges of having £150,000 of cannabis and cocaine and a pepper spray in 2018.

The Independent UK

Jeev Milkha Singh slips off pace at PGA TOUR Champions Q-School

SCOTTSDALE: India's Jeev Milkha Singh carded a disappointing 3-over 74 in the second round of the PGA TOUR Champions Qualifying Tournament to fall off the pace in the race for five tour cards for the 2023 season.

The Times of India

Chester-le-Street man choked and bit partner during violent attack which lasted half an hour

Mark Walker, 43, subjected his then-partner to a horrific, drunken attack that involved him biting her nose and choking her

Chronicle Live

Jeev tied second after Round 1 of Champions Tour Q-School, Jyoti lies 50th

SCOTTSDALE: India's Jeev Milkha Singh carded a five-under 66 to lie tied second after the opening round of the PGA TOUR Champions Qualifying Tournament (Final Stage) at TPC Scottsdale here.

The Times of India

Editorial: DeSantis’ ‘dystopian’ idea of free speech

The hypocrisy of Florida’s freedom governor was on display again last week after a federal judge halted enforcement of a state gag order at Florida’s colleges and universities. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District in Tallahassee called Florida’s new Stop WOKE Act, which restricts speech…

Tribune News Service

Federal judge strikes down DeSantis-backed ‘Stop WOKE’ law on college campuses: ‘Positively dystopian’

Restrictions on discussions of race and gender amount to unconstitutional discrimination, judge rules

The Independent UK

With a nod to '1984,' a federal judge blocks Florida's anti-'woke' law in colleges

Gov. Ron DeSantis was a champion of the bill designed to limit instruction about racism and privilege in the workplace and public universities. A federal judge called it "positively dystopian."

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Salon

Judge blocks DeSantis' "dystopian" law

GOP's "Stop WOKE Act" violates the First Amendment, federal court rules

The Guardian - US

‘Positively dystopian’: judge blocks key parts of Florida’s ‘Stop-Woke’ law

Legislation that limits what universities can teach about racism and sexism violates first and 14th amendment, judge rules

The Independent UK

Judge blocks DeSantis law on barring 'woke' education

A federal judge in Florida has blocked a law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in colleges

Evening Standard

Juror declared kingpin ‘not guilty, not guilty’ in trial ‘fix’, court hears

Damien Drackley was allegedly promised £5,000 to sway fellow jurors, the Old Bailey was told

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How a 2013 US Supreme Court ruling enabled states to enact election laws without federal approval

Since 2019, legislators and election officials in Florida have revised, passed and enforced restrictive voting laws that make it harder for poor people, former felons and people of color – who traditionally favor Democrats in elections – to vote.

Salon

Wynn wants to make it harder to vote

Law Group that includes Karl Rove, Bill Barr stirs unfounded doubts about integrity of election system, say critics

Reason

Florida All in for Assault on Academic Freedom

To defend the Stop WOKE Act, Florida asks court to eliminate any academic freedom exception to government employee speech doctrine

Chicago Sun-Times

Ron DeSantis wants to edit the First Amendment

Instead of defending free inquiry and open debate, DeSantis seems bent on fighting intolerance with intolerance.

Reason

Ron DeSantis Wants To Edit the First Amendment

Florida’s governor claims unconstitutional powers that could be used to promote the "far-left" policies he decries.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Stopping ‘Stop WOKE’: A judge’s wise injunction against a bad law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis

Full-time culture warrior and sometime Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sports a Harvard Law degree and plenty of supposed respect for the U.S. Constitution, but he governs without wisdom or fealty to the most important American principles. Federal Judge Mark Walker has just made that resoundingly clear in issuing a stay…

Reason

Federal Court Rules Against Florida Law Banning "Woke" Workplace Training

The court ruled - correctly - that the law violates the First Amendment.

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