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7:16 AM / Sunday February 9, 2025

Week In Review

New 2025 laws hit hot topics from AI in movies to rapid-fire guns

January 4, 2025

Christian F. Nunes, president of National Organization for Women speaks as abortion rights activists and Women’s March leaders protest as part of a national day of strike actions outside the Supreme Court, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) By David A. Lieb ASSOCIATED PRESS Artificial intelligence. Abortion. Guns. Marijuana. Minimum wages….

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Notable quotes by Jimmy Carter

January 4, 2025

From left, then-President Barack Obama, former President Jimmy Carter, First Lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton wave to the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at the conclusion of a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 2013….

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Significant milestones in the life and career of Jimmy Carter

January 4, 2025

Jimmy Carter gets his bars pinned on by his wife Rosalynn, left and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Carter at the U.S. Naval Academy in this undated photo. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS — Oct. 1, 1924: James Earl Carter Jr. is born in Plains, Georgia, son of James Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter.— June 1946: Carter…

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What we know about the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans

January 4, 2025

Matthias Hauswirth of New Orleans prays on the street near the scene where a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ Canal and Bourbon streets, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV) ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Investigators now believe the driver who barreled through a crowd of New Year’s Day revelers in…

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Takeaways from The Associated Press’ reporting on prison labor in Alabama

December 30, 2024

Willie Crayton’s hat hangs on a cross bearing the Lord’s Prayer and marking the location along Elder Road, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Dadeville, Ala, where the Alexander City Community Work Center transport van he was riding in crashed in April 2024, killing Crayton and Bruce Clements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) By Robin McDowell and Margie…

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Florida requires teaching Black history. Some don’t trust schools to do it justice

December 30, 2024

Renee O’Connor stands in one of the classrooms where she teaches Black history at Miami Norland Senior High School, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) By Kate Payne Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding…

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The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

December 30, 2024

By Bernard McGhee2024 saw the loss of many influential people who shaped the world in significant ways. From political leaders, activists and business pioneers to athletes, entertainers and change-makers, here is a list of some noteworthy figures who died this year (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): JANUARY Glynis Johns, 100. A…

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