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The announcement shocked civil rights advocates, who countered that the state's system is already arduous and this latest requirement will only further worsen voter disenfranchisement throughout the state. However, in GOP-dominant Tennessee, Republican leaders have repeatedly shrugged off calls to reform the state's voting-rights restoration policy. Voting rights advocates have argued the legal interpretation was way off-base. The change, instituted by elections officials in July, has since halted almost all voting rights restorations: More than 60 people were denied and just one person approved. “It's un-American.”Democratic Rep. Joe Towns likened the state's policy to Jim Crow-era laws that were put in place with the intent of stopping Black people from participating in elections.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Sister Helen Prejean remembered when she first spoke with Jake Heggie about adapting her book “Dead Man Walking.”“I don’t know boo-scat about opera,” she told him. It’s established in a lot of these abolitionist countries that there is no death penalty — the government, we don’t kill people for their crimes. The Met and Carnegie Hall plan to present excerpts at Sing Sing on Sept. 28 with DiDonato, Sister Helen as the narrator and inmates as the chorus. There have been 1,575 executions in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to be reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Twenty-four states have death penalty laws, 23 do not and three have governor-imposed moratoriums, the center said.

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☆ The oil market is very chill about the chaos in Russia. Should it be?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Oil prices are, incredibly, lower today than they were before the short-lived uprising in Russia — one of the world’s most important players in the oil market. But some oil market veterans wonder if the pendulum has now swung too far in the other direction. An actual disruption to Russia’s oil flows would be a game-changer for the oil market, and perhaps the world economy. That country’s civil war shut down oil export terminals — and even though Libya’s output is much smaller than that of Russia, oil prices shot higher. For now, the oil market is betting there won’t be a repeat of the Libya unrest in Russia.

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When I read that New York restaurateur Keith McNally had banned “The Late Late Show” host James Corden from famed restaurant Balthazar for allegedly abusive behavior, I was shocked. Not at hearing accusations that a wealthy celebrity had been rude to people in the hospitality industry, but at something far less common: a restaurant owner’s criticizing and barring a client, in public no less. Unfortunately, online reservation systems have also magnified one of the reasons diners used to end up being shunned: the reservation no-show. Few would dare to speak to podiatrists or electricians that way, but most restaurant servers tolerate it because they depend on tips — which can be upward of 70% of their earnings. What doesn’t is a restaurant owner’s publicly standing up for employees by telling bad customers that they have been banned.

☆ TV host James Corden is briefly banned from NYC restaurant over 'abusive' behavior, owner says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Keith McNally, owner of famed SoHo restaurant Balthazar, said on Instagram that "The Late Late Show" host called him and "apologized profusely." In an earlier post, McNally described Corden as a "tiny Cretin of a man" and said that he "86’d Corden. In an Oct. 9 report cited by McNally, Corden was described as becoming upset over his wife's omelet. "That’s when James Corden began yelling like crazy to the server," the report said, accusing him of telling the server: “You can’t do your job! "After that, everything was fine," the report said, noting that the manager gave Corden promo Champagne glasses to "smooth things out."

☆ James Corden is welcome to return to New York restaurant
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —James Corden has “apologized profusely” after a New York City restaurant owner called him out for allegedly being a tough customer. The talk host can once again visit the famed Balthazar restaurant after owner Keith McNally said he received a gracious phone call from Corden. “James Corden just called me and apologized profusely,” McNally wrote on Instagram Monday. Earlier Monday, McNally has shared a post on Instagram to write that he had “86’d” Corden from his restaurant for being “the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”“I don’t often 86 a customer, [but] today I 86’d Corden. “All is forgiven” McNally later wrote, “So Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Corden, Jimmy Corden.”

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