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6 months ago

Louisiana becomes first state to require Ten Commandments displayed in classrooms

NPR

Louisiana becomes first state to require Ten Commandments displayed in classrooms Louisiana is the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. ROB SCHMITZ, HOST: Louisiana has now become the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. BARTON: Yeah, right, there's quite a bit of legal precedent …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Vermont is first state with law requiring oil companies pay for climate change damage

LA Times

Floodwaters block a street in Barre, Vt., last year. Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change. Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after …

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9 months ago

Tennessee becomes first state to protect musicians, other artists against AI

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. “We employ more people in Tennessee in the music industry than any other state,” Lee told reporters shortly after signing the bill into law. The law also creates a new civil action where people can be held liable if they publish or perform an individual’s voice without permission, as well as use a technology to …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Delhi: 5 booked for siphoning off US citizen's retirement funds by posing as Microsoft tech support

India TV News

Delhi crime: The CBI has registered a case against five people for allegedly siphoning off USD 400,000 retirement funds of a US citizen while posing as Microsoft tech support, officials said on Friday. The FIR said that the caller, during the phone call deceitfully gained unauthorised remote access to her system and executed a successful transfer of a staggering USD …

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1 year, 10 months ago

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy oversaw his first State of the Union address

NPR

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy oversaw his first State of the Union address The role puts him in charge of a fractured Republican party with the slimmest of majorities. JOSHUA YEAGER, BYLINE: To better understand what motivates Speaker McCarthy, it's best to take a step back from the State of the Union to the state of the county - Kern County, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

King Charles hosts South Africa’s Ramaphosa for first state visit

Al Jazeera

The monarch welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa as the UK seeks to bolster its ties with its biggest trading partner in Africa. King Charles has hosted his first state visit since becoming British monarch, welcoming South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to Buckingham Palace. Ramaphosa and his wife were officially greeted by Charles’s eldest son and heir Prince William and his wife …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Goa first state to become Har Ghar Jal certified, 10 cr rural households provided piped water: PM Modi

Firstpost

‘Within just 3 years, 7 crore rural households have been connected with piped water facility under ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’. In 7 decades of independence, only 3 crore rural households in the country had piped water facilities,’ he added New Delhi: Ten crore rural households have been connected to the facility of clean water through pipes, PM Narendra Modi said while …

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2 years, 5 months ago

California to become first state to offer food benefits to some immigrants who live in U.S. illegally

LA Times

California is expected to become the first state to provide food benefits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. California is expected to be the first state to offer food benefits to immigrants residing in the U.S. illegally under a state budget plan revealed this week. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers includes $35.2 million to expand the state’s food assistance program to …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to vaccinate 10 crore people

India Today

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in India to administer 10 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses. With this record, more than 50 per cent of the eligible population have been given the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh government, in order to make people realise the importance of the Covid vaccines, had begun awareness …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Karnataka becomes first state to issue order on implementation of NEP 2020

India Today

Karnataka has become the very first state to issue an order regarding the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020, State Higher Education Minister C N Ashwath Narayan claimed. On Saturday, the state government issued an order on the implementation of NEP 2020 with effect from the current academic year, 2021-2022. "With this Karnataka has become the first state in …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Madhya Pradesh Becomes First State To Launch Online Dispute Resolution Platform

Live Law

On July 10, 2021 the Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority e-inaugurated an Online Dispute Resolution Platform as a pilot project in three districts viz. Justice Mohammad Rafiq, Chief Justice & Patron-in-Chief, MPSLSA and Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Executive Chairman, MPSLSA inaugurated the platform, making Madhya Pradesh the first State. Justice Mohammad Rafiq, Chief Justice & Patron-in-Chief, MPSLSA and Justice Prakash …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Yogi's Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to test 3.7 lakh people for Covid in one day