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Newsom Signs Law Mandating Racial, Gender Quotas in Corporate Boardrooms

(Headline USA) Hundreds of California-based corporations must have directors from racial or sexual minorities on their boards under a first-in-the-nation bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The diversity legislation is similar to a 2018 measure that required boardrooms to have at least one female director by 2019. Like that measure, it...

California to Study Reparations for Black Americans

(Headline USA) California will develop a detailed plan for reparations under a new law signed on Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making it the first state to mandate a study of how it can make amends for its role in the oppression of black people. The law creates a nine-member task...

Presidential Commission May Let Moderators Turn Off Mics for Remaining Debates

(Headline USA) The presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. The commission said Wednesday the debate “made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the...

Texas Grand Jury: No Action Against Hero Who Killed Deranged Church Shooter

(Associated Press) A grand jury in Texas decided Monday to take no action against a man who fatally shot an armed man who killed two people at a Fort Worth-area church in late December, prosecutors said. Jack Wilson, a firearms instructor who trained a volunteer security team at the West Freeway...

Salon Owner Shelley Luther, Who Defied Lockdown, Makes Texas Senate Runoff

(Associated Press) A Dallas salon owner who was sent to jail for defying coronavirus lockdown orders and became a symbol of conservative angst over COVID-19 restrictions advanced to a runoff for a Texas Senate seat on Tuesday night. Republican Shelley Luther finished in a virtual dead heat with four-term Republican state...

Brazil President Says Biden’s Amazon Comments ‘Disastrous’

(Associated Press) Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday attacked U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden for saying that the South American nation should suffer “significant economic consequences” if devastation of the Amazon rainforest continues. Biden said during Tuesday’s debate with President Donald Trump, an ally of Bolsonaro, that foreign countries should give...

For Moderator Chris Wallace, Debate was Runaway Train

(Headline USA) For much of the opening presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace looked like a man trying to stop a runaway train with his bare hands. The contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden was chaotic from start to finish. With interruptions and interjections, Trump threw his...

California Prosecutor: Driver Tried to Kill Trump Supporters

(Headline USA) The organizer of a Southern California rally against police brutality and racism was charged with attempted murder Tuesday for driving her car into counterprotesters and running over a woman's head. Tatiana Turner deliberately drove into a crowd of President Donald Trump's supporters with the intent to kill the woman...

Financial Experts Debunk NYTimes’ Attempt to Smear Trump over Loan Debt

(Headline USA) A recent New York Times article smearing President Donald Trump over his finances said Trump must pay back more than $300 million in loans over the next four years. According to partisan attacks, Trump's alleged debt raised the possibility of an unprecedented situation should he win a second...

GOP Senators Praise Amy Coney Barrett Ahead of Confirmation Fight

(Headline USA) Key Republican senators praised President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, as the conservative judge met privately on Capitol Hill Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in preparation for her fast-track confirmation before the Nov. 3 election. Joined by Vice President Mike Pence, McConnell...

AG Agrees to Release Grand Jury Tapes in Breonna Taylor Case

(Headline USA) Kentucky’s attorney general has acknowledged that he never asked the grand jury to consider homicide charges against police in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Amid outrage over the long-awaited charging decision, Attorney General Daniel Cameron said he would agree with a judge’s order to make public a recording of...

EPA Says Calif. Gov. Newsom’s Ban of Gasoline Cars May Be Illegal

(Headline USA) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler on Monday ridiculed California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, saying the proposal raises “significant questions of legality.” Last week, Newsom signed an executive order directing state regulators to come up with rules that...
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