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  • USAssociated Press

    State trooper who arrested LGBTQ+ leaders in Philadelphia no longer works for state police

    The state trooper who arrested two LGBTQ+ leaders after a contentious traffic stop in Philadelphia is no longer employed by the Pennsylvania state police, officials said Friday. Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Adam Reed said the trooper, who has not been named, no longer works for the agency, though it's unclear whether he was fired and when he left the job. In March, Celena Morrison and husband Darius McLean were arrested after a traffic stop on an elevated stretch of highway in the city, part

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  • USLexington Herald-Leader

    ‘Things that only happen in dreams.’ Ky. man who found trove of gold coins shares story on KET

    “After I flipped the first clump of dirt ... the coins kept coming. I knew it was hundreds,” the man who found the multi-million-dollar treasure shared with “Kentucky Life.”

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  • USLA Times

    'Let her go! Let her go!' Fontana officer shoots armed man who put his partner in a headlock

    Body-camera footage released by the Fontana Police Department shows an officer being put in a headlock during a traffic stop in Yucaipa by a man whom authorities have identified as Alan Metka.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes painful cuts to close California's growing budget deficit

    California's budget deficit is at least $45 billion, a shortfall so large it prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to propose painful spending cuts impacting immigrants, kindergarteners and low-income parents seeking child care in a state often lauded for having the world's fifth-largest economy. Officially, Newsom said the state's deficit is $27.6 billion. Including reductions in public education spending, which Newsom has not included, the deficit would be even billions of dollars more, accor

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  • USSnopes

    It Is Claimed that Black Babies Were Used as Alligator Bait in the American South. The Evidence Is Scant

    Tales of infants being used as alligator bait were popularized in 19th-century newspapers, on postcards and in racist memorabilia.

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  • ScienceLive Science

    Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their immune system, study suggests

    Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude.

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    Jill Biden tells Arizona college graduates to tune out people who tell them what they 'can't' do

    Jill Biden on Saturday told Arizona community college graduates to tune out the people who like to tell them what they can't do. The first lady shared with graduates of Mesa Community College how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn't college material and shouldn't waste her time going. Then she got three more, including two master's degrees and, at age 55, a doctorate in educational leadership.

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