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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Right-wing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s whitewash—the word is deliberate—of U.S. history is upsetting teachers, students, civil libertarians and civil rights leaders. A dark cloud of racism, they say, has descended on the Sunshine State’s schools.
WASHINGTON—Even before 49 cars in its mile-and-a-half-long freight train derailed, crashed and produced an environmental and physical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, Norfolk Southern railroad had rampant safety problems, a new Federal Railroad Administration report says.
WASHINGTON—An Atlanta grand jury’s indictment of former Oval Office occupant Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators is the most wide-ranging of all the cases against the former White House denizen, a panel of progressive leaders, including a legal expert, say.
ATLANTA—An Atlanta grand jury indicted former Oval Office occupant Donald Trump and 18 others on racketeering and 40 other criminal counts for his scheme to steal Georgia’s electoral votes in 2020 in what amounted to an attempted coup against the constitution of the United States.
CHICAGO—With a warning from a veteran unionist and political activist Joe Henry ringing in their ears, attendees at the CPUSA Labor Commission’s special session in Chicago started laying political plans for 2024.