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☆ Federal appeals court blocks West Virginia from enforcing anti-trans sports ban against 13-year-old girl
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that West Virginia cannot enforce its anti-transgender sports ban against a 13-year-old girl, dealing a blow to one of nearly two dozen such laws enacted by GOP-led states in recent years. We hold it cannot,” Circuit Judge Toby Heytens wrote in the decision, which was joined by Judge Pamela Harris. Signed into law by West Virginia Republican Gov. The court’s majority said the law violates Pepper-Jackson’s rights under Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at schools that receive federal aid. The federal judge who initially blocked the law in 2021 reversed course last year and sided with state officials.

Persons: Becky Pepper, Jackson, Toby Heytens, Pamela Harris, Jim Justice, Pepper, “, ” Heytens, Steven Agee, Roy Rochlin, Agee, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Joshua Block, ” Block, Patrick Morrisey, ” Organizations: CNN, GOP, Appeals, ”, Republican, West Virginia Republican Gov, Lambda Legal, Conservative, American Civil Liberties Union, West Virginians, West Virginia Locations: Virginia, New York City, West Virginia

☆ The next tallest building in America may be nowhere near New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —A group of developers wants to construct what would be America’s tallest building in an unlikely place: Oklahoma City. The skyscraper would be more than double the height of Oklahoma City’s tallest building now and the fifth-tallest building in the world. Between 2010 and 2020, Oklahoma City was one of 14 US cities that added more than 100,000 people. A city’s population is also a strong indicator of how tall its tallest building will be. “It’s not fathomable to me that Oklahoma City is ready for a building like that.”CNN’s Andy Rose contributed to this article.

Persons: Chicago’s Willis, ” Scot Matteson, ‘, David Holt, Stefan Al, “, ” “ I’m, ”, ” Al, Matteson, Jason Barr, Barr, ” Steve Agee, “ It’s, ” CNN’s Andy Rose Organizations: New, New York CNN, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City’s, Matteson, Trade, Hyatt, Bricktown, NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, CNN, “, Rutgers University, Newark, Devon Energy Center, Oklahoma City University Locations: New York, Oklahoma, United States, Chicago, Oklahoma City, “ Cities, ”

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Maryland’s handgun licensing law, finding that its requirements, which include submitting fingerprints for a background check and taking a four-hour firearms safety course, are unconstitutionally restrictive. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond said they considered the case in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that “effected a sea change in Second Amendment law.”The underlying lawsuit was filed in 2016 as a challenge to a Maryland law requiring people to obtain a special license before purchasing a handgun. Even though Maryland’s law doesn’t prohibit people from “owning handguns at some time in the future, it still prohibits them from owning handguns now,” Richardson wrote. Pennack said the 2013 law made obtaining a handgun an overly expensive and arduous process. Before that law passed, he said, people had to complete a more limited training and pass a background check, among other requirements.

Persons: “, Wes Moore, ”, ” Moore, Judge Julius Richardson, Richardson, G, Steven Agee, ” Richardson, doesn’t, Judge Barbara Milano Keenan, misapplied, Keenan, ” Agee, —, Mark Pennack, he’s, Tuesday’s, Pennack Organizations: BALTIMORE, —, U.S, Circuit, Supreme, Sandy Hook Elementary, Maryland . Maryland Gov, Republican, Democrat Locations: Richmond, Maryland

☆ The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Dwight Garner | More About Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Who is Harry Smith? Facts about his life, especially his early life, are hard to come by. He was one of the great downtown New York figures of the second half of the 20th century. He wandered the world as if it were his personal shoreline. Smith was an ambassador from the territory Greil Marcus has delineated as the “old, weird America.”

Persons: Harry Smith, John Szwed, ” John Szwed, “, Smith, Walker Evans, James Agee, Evans, billy, Patti Smith, Szwed, Greil Marcus, ” Organizations: Folk, Chelsea Hotel Locations: New York, flophouses

☆ 10 ani de e-Guvernare în Moldova. Oamenii și instituțiile care contribuie la digitalizarea serviciilor guvernamentale din țară
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +9 min

Acum 10 ani a fost inițiat procesul de e-transformare și a fost înființat Centrului de Guvernare Electronică, pentru a îmbunătăți comunicarea cu cetățenii pe cale digitală. Directorul AGE a menționat și gama largă de servicii digitale pe care agenția a reușit să le lanseze, inclusiv în acest an. În cadrul galei de performanță au participat atât angajații AGE, cât și instituțiile partenere, dar și reprezentanți ai statului. „Aplicarea tehnologiei în sistemul serviciilor publice a simplificat esențial interacțiunea dintre cetățeni și serviciile guvernamentale. Echipa Agenției este formată din profesioniști care vin cu o abordare sistemică pentru a moderniza serviciile publice și a apropia guvernarea de cetățenii Republicii Moldova.

Persons: Iurie Țurcanu, AGE, Adrian, Ermurachi, Iurie Țurcan, Vlad, Cornelia Amihalachioaie, Sergiu Bedros, Olga Tumuruc, Dumitru, Elena Adam, Artur Reaboi, Igor Bercu, Diana Zaharia, AGEE, . AGEE, Gherghe, Stela Mocanu, Anna Akhalkatsi, Victor Guzun Organizations: Agenția, de, Națională de Asigurări, Mondiale, Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei, Municipiul, Chișinăului Locations: Agenția de, Msign, MPay, MCloud, MConect, AGE, Moldova, Republicii Moldova, Republica Moldova, Municipiul Chișinău

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