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Plantation, Florida CNN — A South Florida school district on Tuesday voted to give a 10-day suspension to an employee accused of allowing her transgender daughter to play on a girls’ high school volleyball team in 2022 and 2023 in violation of state law. The suspension of Jessica Norton, an information management technician and a volunteer junior varsity volleyball coach …

PLANTATION, Fla. — A Florida school board appeared unlikely Tuesday to fire an employee whose transgender daughter played girls’ high school volleyball in alleged violation of state law, but postponed their final decision until next week. Most of the nine members of the Broward County school board appeared ready to reject Superintendent Howard Hepburn’s recommendation that Jessica Norton be fired …

California libraries may lose free passes to state parks as budget deficit mounts

As California faces a staggering budget deficit, library card holders may soon lose the ability to check out free passes to more than 200 state parks, including popular destinations near Los Angeles. In April 2022, California State Library and California State Parks launched the three-year pilot program that handed out the passes — hangtags that fit over a vehicle’s rearview …

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida’s state athletic board fined a high school and put it on probation Tuesday after a transgender student played on the girls volleyball team, a violation of a controversial law enacted by Gov. The 2021 law, which supporters named “The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” bars transgender girls and women from playing on public school teams …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Wildfires raging across Canada have already broken records for total area burned, the number of people forced to evacuate their homes and the cost of fighting the blazes, and the fire season is only halfway finished, officials said Thursday. “It’s no understatement to say that the 2023 fire season is and will continue to be record …

Classmates of the Idaho quadruple murder suspect have said he became more chatty in their criminology class after November's quadruple-slaying - but turned silent when the killings themselves were discussed. His Washington State University criminology classmate BK Norton said Kohberger became more talkative after the killings but turned deadpan when they were brought up during their classes Idaho police said …

One of Prince Philip's closest confidantes has mourned the loss of her lifelong friend The Queen. The Queen is carried to Westminster Abbey - the scene of her coronation and wedding - for her state funeral today The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II with the Imperial State Crown resting on top is carried by the Bearer Party into Westminster Abbey …

The Queen's state funeral will end with a two-minute national silence in a 'fitting tribute to an extraordinary reign' before she is laid to rest beside her late husband, Buckingham Palace revealed today. An early morning rehearsal for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London The Scots Guards march in the moonlight past Westminster Abbey, where the funeral will …

Trump vows to veto D.C. statehood bill ahead of historic vote

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. "Neither chamber has passed the D.C. statehood bill in D.C.'s 219-year history," Norton tweeted Tuesday. "Make no mistake: one of the many ways our country has silenced Black voices and suppressed Black votes has been by preventing D.C. statehood," she said last week. In an interview with Fox News, the district's "shadow senator" …

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