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☆ Trump will debate Biden while still bound by gag orders. Here's what he can't say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Jay Paul | ReutersWhen he faces President Joe Biden in Thursday's debate, former President Donald Trump will have to watch his tongue. Trump is still bound by multiple court-imposed gag orders that limit what he can say about his sprawling portfolio of legal troubles. The hush money gag orderTrump has grappled with the gag order applied by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan during the ex-president's historic criminal hush money trial. But Merchan on Tuesday partially lifted the order, allowing Trump to speak about trial witnesses and the jurors.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Kevin Lamarque, Jay Paul, Trump, Biden, Juan Merchan, Stormy Daniels, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Merchan, Daniels, Michael Cohen, Donald Organizations: Reuters, Trump, NBC News, Republican, Democratic, Manhattan, Attorney, NBC Locations: New York, Manhattan

☆ Are Republicans Tired of All the Losing?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday. They handed Republicans another drubbing with their twin issue set of abortion rights and fear and loathing of the MAGAGOP. Start in Virginia, where Democrats picked up the state House of Delegates and held control of the state Senate. President Biden won the state by 10 points and congressional Democrats in 2022 carried all seven of the state Senate’s swing districts.

Persons: Glenn Youngkin, Jay Paul, Glenn Youngkin’s, Biden Organizations: Virginia Gov, Associated Press Democrats, Republicans, GOP, Republican Gov Locations: Virginia

When students return to the Virginia school where a first-grade teacher was shot by a 6-year-old, the campus will be outfitted with a metal detector. The Newport News Public Schools district announced Thursday that a detector will be installed at Richneck Elementary School, where Abigail Zwerner was shot while teaching. At least that is one extra layer of support.”Use of metal detectors rare at American schoolsThe use of metal detectors in schools, particularly elementary schools, is still rare, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. During the 2019-2020 school year, less than 2% of public elementary schools performed random metal detector checks on students. About 54.6% of elementary schools had security staff present at least once a week; at middle schools, it was 81.5% and at high schools 84.4%.

☆ Virginia capital removes last public Confederate monument
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Tyler Clifford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 12 (Reuters) - A Black-owned construction business on Monday dismantled and removed the last public Confederate statue on display in Richmond, Virginia, the city that served as the capital of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. Richmond began removing a dozen Confederate monuments in 2020 as part of a reckoning with the U.S. South's legacy of slavery. Hill, the last Confederate monument owned by the city, is removed from its plinth in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. December 12, 2022. Hill's remains will be reinterred at a grave site in his birthplace in Culpeper, Virginia, the Times-Dispatch reported. The statue will eventually go to the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, according to media reports.

☆ Student loan forgiveness: Biden's pause on payments has been better for these students than forgiveness
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Katie Lobosco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Washington CNN —President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program remains blocked by federal courts for now. For most federal student loan borrowers, balances have been frozen since March 2020. Who benefits more from the pauseThere are roughly 1.6 million people pursuing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, according to a government estimate from October. Lauren McClain estimates she's saved nearly $20,000 thanks to the pause on student loan payments. She estimates she’s saved nearly $20,000 thanks to the pause, while Biden’s forgiveness program wouldn’t have actually helped her financially.

[1/2] A memorial is seen in the parking lot after a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S. November 23, 2022. A system meant to help workers get compensated for workplace injuries could make it difficult for the lawsuit to succeed. But while many of those shootings occur in the workplace, employers are rarely held responsible. That is in part because nearly all U.S. states, including Virginia, require employers to buy workers compensation insurance to pay workers for medical expenses and lost wages stemming from workplace injuries. Workers' compensation is "a tough defense to overcome," said Jeffrey Harris, a Georgia-based plaintiffs' attorney who has handled numerous workplace injury cases.

[1/2] Police walk through the parking lot after a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S. November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Jay Paul/File PhotoCompanies Walmart Inc FollowNov 29 (Reuters) - An employee at the Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, where a supervisor fatally shot six people last week, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the company, claiming she and others had warned management about the shooter’s behavior and that nothing was done. A Walmart spokesperson said the company is reviewing the complaint and will respond in court. Prior to the shooting, Prioleau said Bing had asked her if she liked guns, and asked coworkers if they received their active shooter training. Walmart continued to employ Bing, despite complaints from Prioleau and others, the lawsuit claims.

The gunman, identified as Andre Bing, 31, of Chesapeake, Virginia, said nothing as he began firing on workers gathered late on Tuesday ahead of their overnight shift, according to two employees who were in the break room. Another Walmart employee, Briana Tyler, told ABC's "Good Morning America": "I looked up and my manager just opened the door and he just opened fire." [1/6] FBI agents stand in the parking lot after a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S. November 23, 2022. He told her that during the nightly meeting his manager was acting "strange" and "then started shooting," she told the news station. This was not the first mass shooting at a Walmart, which has thousands of stores across the country.

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