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☆ What are neopronouns and how do you use them?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And then there are neopronouns (“new” pronouns), gender-neutral or nonbinary pronouns that are distinct from the common she, he and they. All pronouns indicate identity and can be used to include or exclude people they describe — neopronouns included, said Dennis Baron, one of the foremost experts on neopronouns and their histories and an emeritus professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Other neopronouns are completely original to their user – some may choose to select a noun to describe themselves, like “star” or “starself” in place of binary pronouns like “she” or “herself.” These are called nounself neopronouns, but more on those later. Why people use neopronounsPeople may use neopronouns for the same reason someone else uses “she” and/or “they” — neopronouns may better align with one’s identity. An intro to nounself neopronounsLeaf, sun, star — nounself pronouns are neopronouns that use nature and other inspirations as nonbinary or genderless descriptors.

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☆ Retailers are shaping a wave of laws to crack down on organized theft — here's how they do it
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Since 2022, at least nine states – six so far this year – have passed laws to impose harsher penalties for organized retail crime offenses. The new and proposed laws aim to deter brazen retail crime and go after the so-called kingpins who lead organized theft groups. But critics say the measures may not actually reduce organized retail crime, and could disproportionately harm marginalized groups. Plus, dozens of states already have organized theft laws on the books and the crime is still increasing, according to trade associations. Retailers and lawmakers say the misdemeanor charges have emboldened theft groups and allowed organized retail crime to spread.

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☆ Europe Is Embarking on a Mining Renaissance. Winning Over Locals Is Proving a Challenge.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Yusuf Khan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +12 min

“It’s definitely a [mining] renaissance,” said Rebecca Campbell, global mining and metals lead at law firm White & Case. “We’re trying to foster a permitting landscape that is both efficient and responsible.”In Europe, the mining renaissance comes after years of nearly no new mining activity on the continent. Left: A layer of spodumene within the host rock that Savannah Resources intends to mine. Savannah Resources, which has set up two offices in the municipality, has said it would strictly avoid that and instead build reservoirs to store rain water. That view is echoed by Savannah Resources.

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☆ Abortion rights keep winning on the ballot in conservative states — Florida and Arizona could be next
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Ohio voters have rejected a proposal that would've made it more difficult for voters to amend the state constitution, including one measure set for the November ballot that would guarantee abortion rights in the state. For the third time in a year, voters in a conservative state have shot down an attempt by Republicans to make constitutional changes that target abortion. As of Wednesday afternoon, the people of Ohio had rejected Issue 1 by a 14-point margin. Less than two months after the fall of Roe, voters in the Sunflower State rejected an amendment that would have stripped state constitutional protections for abortion by an 18-point margin. And the following November, voters in deeply conservative Kentucky narrowly rejected a state constitutional amendment that said there is no right to an abortion in the Bluegrass State.

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☆ Trump's lawyer suggested telling skeptics that it was normal procedure to have Trump's electors vote in states he didn't win, newly released memo shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's lawyer suggested telling people it was normal for his electors to send in votes in losing states, according to a newly released memo. The idea was part of a larger plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the NYT reported. The New York Times was the first to report on and obtain the previously secret memo. The previously unknown campaign memo from December 2020 — penned by then-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro — outlined a plan to overturn the 2020 election results. Chesebro wrote in the memo that their electors' votes, which would be cast in December, as well as news of the plan, would leak before the presidential certification on January 6.

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Ron DeSantis said “of course” Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, his the most direct comments on the matter in the nearly three years since the former president’s defeat. “Of course he lost,” DeSantis told NBC News in an interview that aired Sunday. They did the CARES Act, which funded mail-in ballots across the country,” DeSantis told NBC. As he often does when faced with questions about the 2020 election, DeSantis in his interview with NBC motioned toward the future and how the 2024 election must be a “referendum on Joe Biden’s policies” and “failures” rather than relitigating the past. We got to start healing divisions in this country,” DeSantis told reporters.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, ” DeSantis, “ Joe Biden’s, ”, DeSantis, “, Trump, Anthony Fauci, lockdowns, Covid, Joe Biden’s, Stormy Daniels Organizations: CNN, Florida Gov, NBC News, Republican, National Institute of Allergy, NBC, Covid Locations: Decorah , Iowa, Pennsylvania, Florida, Mar, Waverly , Iowa

☆ Abortion Drives Ohio Election on Amending the State Constitution
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Michael Wines | More About Michael Wines | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican, wrote on Twitter in April that he had watched voters reject policies that he and his legislative majority had backed. “It wouldn’t have been right then, and it isn’t right now.”Once, Ohio was the quintessential swing state. The 2022 election brought single-party control of the governor’s office and legislature to 39 states, the most in at least three decades. And 29 states, 20 of them Republican, have veto-proof supermajorities that control both houses of the state legislatures. “We can kind of do what we want,” Matt Huffman, the powerful Ohio State Senate president, told the Columbus Dispatch in a 2022 profile.

Persons: John Kasich of, ”, Matt Huffman, — Organizations: Gov, Republican, Twitter, Ohio State, Columbus Dispatch, Alabama Legislature, U.S, Supreme Locations: John Kasich of Ohio, Ohio

☆ Lawyer says Trump was just 'asking' with 2020 election actions
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Susan Heavey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Every single thing that President Trump is being prosecuted for involved aspirational asks - Asking state legislatures, asking state governors, asking state electoral officials to do the right thing. In fact, even asking Vice President Pence was protected by free speech," Lauro told Fox News. Trump, who pleaded not guilty in court last week, faces four federal charges in the election case. The proposed order would also "prevent the press from obtaining exculpatory and material information that might be relevant to these proceedings," he told "Fox News Sunday." Her also pleaded not guilty to New York state charges in Manhattan that he falsified business records to hide hush money payments to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

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☆ Lawyers successfully argued that a Jim Crow-era law banning felons from voting is cruel and unusual punishment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mississippi lawyers successfully argued against a lifetime voting ban for felons. These Jim Crow-era laws included a lifetime voting ban on any Mississippi resident convicted of certain felonies. Previous challenges to the law have argued it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, the Post reports. While the law is still in effect, if this latest ruling sticks, it could restore voting rights to 30,000 people in the state, according to the Post. Additional requirements in these states include indefinite bans for some crimes or additional waiting periods after someone completes their sentence.

Persons: Jim Crow, Lynn Fitch, — Organizations: Service, Circuit, Washington Post, Post, National Conference of State Legislatures Locations: Mississippi, Wall, Silicon

☆ Judge temporarily exempts women with complicated pregnancies from Texas abortion ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Kanishka Singh | Thomson Reuters | Kanishka Singh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Reuters In Washington Dc | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File PhotoAug 4 (Reuters) - Women in Texas with complicated pregnancies are exempted from a state abortion ban under a temporary injunction issued on Friday, with the judge citing a lack of clarity on the ban's medical exemptions. Travis County District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum in her ruling sided with women and doctors who sued Texas over the abortion ban. The Texas Attorney General's Office said Saturday it had filed a notice of an accelerated appeal directly to the Texas Supreme Court. The office said the filing stays the ruling pending a decision by the Texas Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court last year stripped away national abortion rights.

Persons: Evelyn Hockstein, Jessica Mangrum, Mangrum, general's, Roe, Wade, Kanishka Singh, David Shepardson, Leslie Adler, William Mallard, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Texas State Capitol, REUTERS, Texas, Texas Attorney General's, Texas Supreme, for Reproductive Rights, Reproductive, U.S, Supreme, The U.S, Thomson Locations: Texas, Austin , Texas, U.S, Travis, The, Washington

[1/2] The "1200 building" at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the crime scene where the 2018 shootings took place, is seen in Parkland, Florida, U.S. August 4, 2022. The re-staging of the school shooting, one of the deadliest in U.S. history, was part of a civil lawsuit against Scot Peterson, a police officer who was stationed outside the Parkland, Florida, high school when the gunfire began on Feb. 14, 2018. In June, Peterson was acquitted by a Florida jury of criminal charges of child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury connected the shooting. The nonprofit group defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter. Ahead of the re-enactment, nine members of Congress and family members of victims toured the school building.

Persons: Marjory Stoneman, Amy Beth Bennett, Scot Peterson, Peterson, Tony Montalto, Gina, Michael Piper, Carol, Lisa Phillips, Nikolas Cruz, Julia Harte, Cynthia Osterman, Leslie Adler Organizations: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Broward, Sun Sentinel, U.S . Congress, Thomson Locations: Parkland , Florida, U.S, Florida, Broward County, Parkland

☆ Trump indictment reveals new details of Jan. 6, pressure campaign to subvert election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Clark floats Insurrection Act ideaOn the same day he accepted Trump's job offer, Clark spoke with a deputy White House counsel. "The previous month, the Deputy White House Counsel had informed [Trump] that 'there is no world, there is no option in which you do not leave the White House [o]n January 20th,'" the indictment notes. On Jan. 3, 2021, the counsel tried to dissuade Clark from taking the job as acting AG, the indictment says. Clark responded, "Well, [Deputy White House Counsel], that's why there's an Insurrection Act." President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 15, 2020.

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☆ 21 Donald Trump election lies listed in his new indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The indictment of Trump on four new federal criminal charges, all related to the former president’s effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, lays out some of those lies one by one. Even in listing 21 lies, the 45-page indictment does not come close to capturing the entirety of Trump’s massive catalogue of false claims about the election. The lie that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of the election. (Page 16)The indictment notes that Trump made this claim on his infamous January 2, 2021 call with Raffensperger, whose staff responded that the claim was inaccurate. The lie that Pennsylvania “want[s] to recertify.” (Page 38) Trump made this false claim in his January 6 speech.

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☆ A lawyer argued that mass riots triggered by Trump's power grab could be crushed by US troops: indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The new indictment against Donald Trump describes how he tried to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. But Jeffrey Clark, an alleged co-conspirator in the new indictment against Trump and a top Justice Department lawyer at the time, had a different answer: Call in the troops. On the same day that Clark suggested using the Insurrection Act, according to the indictment, Clark had also maneuvered to try to make himself Acting Attorney General. His aides drafted a proclamation to use the law, according to The New York Times, but Trump never followed through. Even as Trump considered putting Clark in charge of the Justice Department, he knew he truly lost the election, according to the indictment.

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☆ Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Tierney Sneed Marshall Cohen Zachary Cohen Devan Cole Hannah Rabinowitz Katelyn Polantz Casey Gannon | Tierney Sneed | Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Trump has rejected any suggestion he was in the wrong after the 2020 election. Among the six are four unnamed attorneys who allegedly aided Trump in his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Fake electors plot was an unprecedented attempt to subvert Electoral CollegeThe so-called fake electors plot was an unprecedented attempt to subvert the Electoral College process by replacing electors that Biden had rightfully won with illegitimate GOP electors. Federal investigators have subpoenaed the fake electors across the country, sent FBI agents to interview witnesses about their conduct, and recently granted immunity to two fake electors from Nevada to secure their grand jury testimony. In Michigan, the state’s attorney general charged the 16 fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming Trump won Michigan in the 2020 election with multiple felonies.

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☆ Here are the likely identities of Trump's co-conspirators in the January 6 indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump was indicted for a third time on Tuesday, this time for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment refers to six unnamed co-conspirators in the wide-ranging plot. The 45-page indictment claims that six of Trump's associates were co-conspirators in the plot, but doesn't name any of them. The indictment alleges that co-conspirator 1 played a key role in attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona, including directly engaging with then-Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican. Co-conspirator 3: Sidney PowellFormer Trump attorneys Sidney Powell, leaves the Federal Court in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2021.

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☆ Back-to-back 'senior moments' from Feinstein and McConnell illustrate the peril of a government by seniority
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two of the Senate's oldest and most powerful members had "senior moments" in recent days. Congress currently operates via seniority, meaning members gain more power depending on how long they've served. The back-to-back "senior moments" from McConnell and Feinstein, two of the most senior and powerful members of the Senate, illustrate just how much of a gerontocracy, a society governed by the old, the US has become. While Feinstein has said she's retiring at the end of her term, McConnell has suggested no such thing. In the 2020-2022 Congressional term, an Insider study found that nearly 1-in-4 members of Congress were over the age of 70.

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☆ Opinion: Don’t expect history to be kind to Netanyahu
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —There is no question that history books will dedicate considerable space to the impact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had on the fate of his embattled nation. But in Israel’s parliamentary system, the prime minister controls not just the executive but also the legislature through his majority coalition in parliament. Without judiciary oversight, the prime minister and his bloc have little to stop them as they push their agenda. Frida GhitisTo become prime minister, Netanyahu had to enlist the support of enough parties to have 61 votes out of the 120 seats in the Knesset. When asked whom they would prefer as prime minister, just 34% said Netanyahu over the center-right Benny Gantz, with opposition leader Yair Lapid also beating the Israeli leader.

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☆ Ohio voters appear primed to back abortion rights measure, the latest sign of the post-Roe fury
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ohio voters appear primed to pass an abortion rights constitutional amendment. According to a new poll, 58% of likely Ohio voters would vote in favor of the amendment. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose must declare by tomorrow whether the abortion rights measure has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. As Insider previously reported, abortion rights measures could prove to deliver major political benefits to Democrats. During the 2022 midterms, abortion rights groups passed every state measure they sought and also beat back efforts to restrict abortion access.

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[1/4] Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel addresses supporters during a campaign stop at the IBEW Local 58 union hall in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File PhotoJuly 18 (Reuters) - Michigan's attorney general on Tuesday announced felony charges against 16 Republicans for participating in an alleged "false elector" scheme that aimed to overturn then-President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in the battleground state. Nessel charged the 16 Republicans with a series of felonies, including forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, and conspiracy to commit election forgery. The group includes Marian Sheridan, the grassroots vice chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party; Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party; Republican National Committeewoman Kathy Berden; and Stanley Grot, the clerk in Shelby Township, a northern suburb of Detroit. Other authorities are also investigating efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 loss.

Persons: Dana Nessel, Rebecca Cook, Donald Trump's, Joe Biden, Nessel, Marian Sheridan, Meshawn Maddock, Kathy Berden, Stanley Grot, Trump, Biden, Mike Pence, Kanishka Singh, Nathan Layne, Andy Sullivan, Will Dunham, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Michigan, REUTERS, U.S . Capitol, Trump's, Democrat, Electoral College, Trump, Michigan Republican Party, Republican, Republican Party, State of, United States Senate, National Archives, U.S . Justice, Thomson Locations: Detroit , Michigan, U.S, Michigan, Shelby Township, Detroit, United States, America, State of Michigan, Georgia

The winning candidate must receive at least 270 of the 538 total electoral votes. Each of the 50 states is assigned a number of electoral votes that match the size of their congressional delegation. In all but two states, the winner of the popular vote receives all of the state's electoral votes. In most elections, the winner of the national popular vote has also won the Electoral College vote. Those electors met on Dec. 14, 2020, to cast their votes for Trump - the same day when legitimate electors cast their ballots for Biden.

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Weeks later, Mr. Trump is the former President Trump. Instead, in a brief televised address shortly before 2:30 a.m., Mr. Trump furiously laid down his postelection lie. For weeks, Mr. Trump had been peppering him with tips of fraud that, upon investigation by federal authorities, proved baseless. The cavalry “is coming, Mr. President,” Kylie Kremer tweeted to Mr. Trump on Dec. 19. On Jan. 15, Mr. Trump acquiesced to an Oval Office meeting with Mr. Lindell, who arrived with two sets of documents.

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☆ Michigan announces felony charges for 16 Trump-backed electors who tried to overturn the election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges against 16 "fake" electors. The felony charges mark a historic first against a pro-Trump scheme to overturn the 2020 election. Nessel's decision is the first time that pro-Trump electors who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election are facing state charges. They are often called fake electors since President Joe Biden's electors were the duly elected representatives based on the state's certified election results. Each of the 16 individuals will face charges related to forgery generally and election law forgery, specifically.

Persons: Dana Nessel, Meshawn Maddock, Donald Trump, Nessel, Joe Biden's, Trump, Mike Pence Organizations: Trump, Michigan Republican Party, Service, The Detroit News, Michigan GOP Locations: Michigan, Wall, Silicon, United States of America

☆ Why college is getting more expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

After adjusting for currency inflation, college tuition has increased 747.8% since 1963, the Education Data Initiative found. But the net price of college — that’s the amount that students and their families are actually shelling out — has been decreasing. The average student at a private four-year college paid $32,800 for tuition and room and board last year. When adjusted for inflation, the actual price paid for private college has dropped by 11% over the past five years, according to College Board data. In a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration's student debt forgiveness program in Biden v. Nebraska.

Persons: Brian Snyder, ”, Megan Brenan, Catharine Hill, “, —, couldn’t, ’ ”, they’ve, Kevin Dietsch, Joe Biden’s, Biden Organizations: New, New York CNN, College, US News, Harvard University, Harvard, Reuters, Education Data Initiative, Georgetown University Center, Education, Gallup, Vassar College, “, ”, National Education Association, Foreign Relations, Economic, Institute, luxe, ” Colleges, American, of Trustees, NEA, College Board, U.S, Supreme, Biden, . Nebraska Locations: New York, Cambridge , Massachusetts, United States, “, Washington , DC, .

Last month, U.S. District Judge David Hale found that the ban likely violated the U.S. Constitution. However, he said he had to put his order on hold because the federal appeals court hearing the case recently paused a similar order in Tennessee. The law is being challenged by families of transgender children who say they will be irreparably harmed by losing access to medical treatments. The now-reinstated Kentucky and Tennessee laws were both blocked by federal judges on June 28 in response to lawsuits by families of transgender children. The families say the laws discriminate against transgender people and take away parents' right to make medical decisions for their children.

Persons: David Hale, Daniel Cameron, Corey Shapiro, Hale, Brendan Pierson, David Gregorio Our Organizations: District, . Constitution, Republican, Civil Liberties Union, Kentucky, U.S, Circuit, Appeals, Thomson Locations: Kentucky, U.S, ., Tennessee . Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas , Alabama, Florida, Indiana, New York

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