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Minnesota court affirms rejection of teaching license for ex-officer who shot Philando Castile 03/11/2024 02:50pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota board was justified when it rejected a substitute teaching license for a former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in 2016, an appeals court ruled Monday. The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed the findings of the Minnesota Profess What is DEI and why is it dividing America? 03/09/2024 11:00am • (CNN) — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have come under attack in boardrooms, state legislatures and college campuses across the country.Since 2023, 81 anti-DEI bills that target programs at colleges have been introduced in 28 states and in Congress, according to a tally by the Killing of Laken Riley is now front and center of US immigration debate and 2024 presidential race 03/08/2024 02:28pm • ATLANTA (AP) — With an unscripted clash between President Joe Biden and a Georgia congresswoman at Thursday night's State of the Union speech, the slaying of a Georgia nursing student was further cemented as a political rallying point in the 2024 presidential race. Laken Hope Riley, 22, has become Today in Sports - Week Ahead, March 8 - March 14 03/07/2024 10:05am • March 8 1954 — The Milwaukee Hawks beat the Baltimore Bullets twice 64-54 and 65-54, in the only doubleheader in NBA history involving the same two teams. 1958 — Silky Sullivan, ridden by Bill Shoemaker, wins the Santa Anita Derby by three lengths after trailing by 40 early in the race and by 20 Today in Sports - Week Ahead, March 8 - March 14 03/07/2024 10:00am • March 12 1937 — The first National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) men’s basketball tournament is won by Central Missouri State. Central Missouri wins the eight-team, single-elimination tournament by defeating Morningside College (Iowa) 35-24. 1966 — In the last race of his 40- Oscar Series: 'Do the Right Thing' to 'Saving Private Ryan,' 10 times the Academy got it wrong 03/06/2024 04:03am • It’s Oscar week! Every day this week, WTOP examines a different aspect of Oscar history and this year’s race. On Monday, we asked whether "Oppenheimer" marks the Return of the Blockbuster Best Picture. On Tuesday, we tallied the stats of the winningest movies to compile the Oscar Mount A woman wins $3.8 million verdict after SWAT team searches wrong home based on Find My iPhone app 03/04/2024 07:39pm • DENVER (AP) — A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.76 million jury verdict under a new Colorado law that allows people to sue police over violations of their state constitutional rights. A jury i Minnesota is poised to give school resource officers clearer authority to use force 03/04/2024 05:32pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers are on the verge of a compromise that will give police officers who work in schools clearer authority to use force. Minnesota reacted to the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer with a series of police accountability measures that inclu Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders 03/01/2024 10:04pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a rare prosecution of medical responders following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020. McClain was walking d Ex-prosecutor Buta Biberaj says she will continue to have voice in Loudoun County as private attorney 03/01/2024 01:42pm • Buta Biberaj, who was elected Loudoun County Commonweath's Attorney in 2019 — one of a wave of "progressive prosecutors" in Northern Virginia — tells WTOP she plans to be "much more vocal in what I see as being just and unjust," in her new role as a private attorney. Biberaj was defeated in h Tuesday's Scores 02/27/2024 11:31pm • GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL= VHSL State Quarterfinal= Class 6= Centreville 64, Gainesville 52 Manchester 63, W.T. Woodson 20 Osbourn Park 67, Oakton 32 Thomas Dale 64, James Robinson 39 Class 5= Deep Creek 49, Norview 47 James River 79, Stone Bridge 55 Patrick Henry 36, Briar Woods 35 Princess Anne 62, Me Adidas sells another batch of Yeezy sneakers left over from breakup with Ye 02/26/2024 02:00pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shoe and sports clothing maker Adidas said Monday it had started a third sale of the Yeezy sneakers it was left with after severing ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. The company has accompanied the sales with donations to groups fighting antisemitism Today in History: February 24, Soviet sub torpedoes ship, kills nearly 800 Jewish refugees 02/24/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2024. There are 311 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 24, 1942, the SS Struma, a charter ship attempting to carry nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to British-mandated Palestine, was torpedoed by a Soviet Los Angeles County district attorney seeks reelection in contest focused on feeling of public safety 02/23/2024 06:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County voters are set to decide next month if embattled District Attorney George Gascón will remain the head of the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office in a race centered on perceptions of public safety. Gascón, who was elected in 2020 on a criminal justice pl Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity 02/23/2024 06:04pm • Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make sense. The partial explanation for why its images put peopl