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You consider reading, writing, math, science, they say too much time is spent on gender issues, and most concerned too much time is spent on sexual orientation. and some believe it's going to energize more voters going forward. >> what you are seeing is the vast majority of parents, wherever they are in the political spectrum, democrat, republican, want schools to focus on the basics, focus on reading, writing, science, math, civics. >> outside d.c. in fairfax county, the school district plans to ignore new education policies out of the state capital, richmond, require use a bathroom with thei...

Were badly hurt. they were taken hospital after the plane made an emergency landing at an airport in alexandria, virginia. cnn's pete wanting reports on the dramatic scare in the sky. >> the in-flight thrashing came on without warning, wednesday night german airline lufthansa flight for 69 was in route to frankfort, from austin texas, federal investigators say as the flight flew over tennessee at an altitude of 37,000 feet, the crew reported in countering severe turbulence, the result, according to passengers, like unexpectedly free falling for five seconds of the top of a rollercoaster, plane...

We just heard from kristen, it is true that muriel bowser, she is against it, she vetoed it. here is what she said about the principle at play here saying, i think we're all dealing with is the effects of a limited home rule and we know that our legislative process is one that doesn't end with my signature or veto. until we are the 51st state, we live with that indignity. so, is the white house choosing politics over principle here, ashley? >> well, i think the mayor is right that the real issue is that, again, you have 700,000 people, a lot of them black and brown people, who don't have repre...

They said, is the fact that all the financial crimes were introduced in court. they expected some of them, but certainly not all of them. they believe that really turned the jury and once that happened they felt their best shot was just a mistrial or a hung jury. pamela? >> is he going to face other trials for his alleged financial crimes? >> reporter: yeah, there are 99 other charges, and they certainly spent a lot of time in court speaking about those. the prosecutor talked through a lot of the names and he admitted to a lot of the fraud while he was on the stand so that certainly should hel...

Out there. reduce the maximum sentences for crimes like robbery and carjacking and expand the requirement for jury trials and most misdemeanor cases. and initially, remember, d.c. laws can be overturned in the federal level, initially joe biden indicated he would back what d.c. wanted to do. but then, republicans started making a lot of noise and said this is soft on crime, we can't have that, and then the president seemed to do an about face. this is his latest take on what is happening here. he said i support d.c. statehood and home rule, but i don't support some of the changes d.c. council ...