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Designer who won't make same-sex wedding websites loses case

A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, another twist in a series of court rulings nationwide about whether businesses denying services to LGBTQ people amounts to bias or freedom of speech.
by The Associated Press

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Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life

Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life

A man accused of killing eight people, most of them of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty Tuesday to four of the murders and was handed four sentences of life without parole.
by The Associated Press

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Teatro Latino remembered as its founder battles cancer

Teatro Latino remembered as its founder battles cancer

The pioneering theater company Teatro Latino staged its last show in the 1990s but is being remembered for its groundbreaking work as founding member Ana Maria Mendez faces terminal cancer.  
by Vicki Adame

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Civil rights activist Robert Moses dies at 86

Civil rights activist Robert Moses dies at 86

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86.
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Permanent residents who left the U.S. during the pandemic worry they can't return home

Permanent residents who left the U.S. during the pandemic worry they can't return home

Some green card holders are still stuck outside of the country, worried about whether they’ll be able to return to their lives in the U.S. because of broad disruptions to the immigration system during the pandemic.
by Joel Rose

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Cleveland's baseball team goes from Indians to Guardians

Cleveland's baseball team goes from Indians to Guardians

Known as the Indians since 1915, Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will be called Guardians. The ballclub announced the name change on Twitter, ending months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop logos and names considered racist.
by The Associated Press

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In six words, tell us your thoughts on race

In six words, tell us your thoughts on race

Is an honest conversation about race even possible? Journalist Michele Norris says yes — and with her Race Card Project, she has the proof.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Minnesota's share of opioid settlement could top $300M

The attorney general said Minnesota's share could be as much as $337 million over 18 years, with significant payments frontloaded in the first five years. The spending will be overseen by Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council.

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