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A grand jury declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday in another major blow to the Justice Department's efforts to prosecute the president's political opponents.
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On this week's 51%, we hear from author Brianne Brinker, assistant athletic director at Union College, about her experience coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman in 2019. Brinker says “skating out of the vault” has allowed her to be her most confident self, and she considers finding herself to be her greatest accomplishment.
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In April, PPL's then-president said there were no communications with the state before the budget. However, that executive was included on an email discussing meeting with the state on before the budget was announced.
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The school, founded in Chicago in the late 1800s, said the move allows them to pivot without sacrificing student experience. -
Buffalo Mayor-Elect Sean Ryan announced his first administrative appointees Friday, Dec. 5, as he prepares to transition into City Hall. -
The Trump administration's irregular appointment of U.S. attorneys could torpedo a probe of the state attorney general's office.
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The executive order is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration to hold back state-level AI rules. But many Republicans are also uncomfortable with the effort.
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The State Department is swapping out Calibri for Times New Roman in all its official documents, reversing a Biden-era change that aimed to increase accessibility for readers with disabilities. -
This follows joint drills by Chinese and Russian strategic bombers and fighters on Tuesday that prompted Japan and South Korea to scramble planes to monitor them. -
President Trump says he's sending $12 billion in aid to American farmers who are reeling from global trade disruptions. Those include inflation and Trump's tariffs that are making fertilizer and farm equipment more expensive, and the President's trade war with China which closed a huge market for American soybean exports.
