California State

Columbus, OH

South Carolina State

The Independent

 California and South Carolina could become the next states to limit cellphone use in schools, with state officials taking up the issue Tuesday.California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict students' use of smartphones on campus. South Carolina's State Board of Education took up guidelines to tell local districts to ban cellphone use during class time, but postponed a final vote until next month to take more time to craft the proposal.The efforts mark a broader push by officials in Utah, Florida, Louisiana and elsewhere to try to limit cellphone use in schools...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom nudges school districts to restrict student cellphone use

TheDailyBeast

A California state senator, fed up with the Democratic Party’s supermajority in the Golden State’s legislature, announced she is defecting to the Republican Party. Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil was elected in 2022 to represent California’s fourth senate district, which includes parts of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the agrarian Central Valley. Alvarado-Gil made the party switch announcement on Thursday, after serving two years of her four year term. “I was elected to serve the public, not a political ideology,” Alvarado-Gil said in a statement. “The status quo under a supermajority Democratic rule in the legislature is simply not working for this state.” In an interview with Sacramento Bee opinion columnist Marcos Bretón, Alvarado-Gil said the “last straw” was the attempt to pass reforms to Proposition 47—a decade-old ballot initiative that downgraded some property crimes like shoplifting, forgery, and writing bad checks to misdemeanors. Read it at Sacramento BeeRead more at The Daily Beast.

California State Senator Defects From Democratic Party

POLITICO

The proposal may get caught up in the political crossfires of the presidential election.

California Dems want to help undocumented immigrants buy homes – during presidential race

The Center Square

(The Center Square) - The California State Senator who switched from the Democratic to Republican party mid-session claims she has been stripped of her committee assignments and the Latino Caucus as “retribution” for leaving the Democratic Caucus.
                While Senate Democratic leaders say it’s standard to remove individuals from committees to figure out how to maintain appropriate party balance in committees, the Latino Caucus says State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, R-Jackson, a Latina woman, was removed from the group just for being a Republican.
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California State Sen. removed from Latino Caucus for switching to GOP

Virginia State

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Kentucky Vibes.net

Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. On July 28, 2024, a TikTok video posted by Erica W., known as @tasteofmelanin on the platform, garnered significant attention after she exposed disturbing racist decorations in an Airbnb rental. The incident occurred in a rental property that Erica had booked, although the exact location remains unspecified. The video has since gone viral, prompting widespread concern and leading to the removal of the listing from Airbnb's platform.

Airbnb Listing Taken Down After Black Woman Finds Hanging Monkeys and Cotton Used As Decor

San Diego, CA

NBC News

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California discovered $5 million worth of methamphetamine disguised as watermelons last week, the agency said Tuesday. A 29-year-old man driving a commercial tractor-trailer ran into trouble with CBP officers at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility in San Diego on Friday as he was trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico, the agency said.

$5 million worth of meth disguised as watermelons found at California customs checkpoint

Texas State

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas and a coalition of Republican-led states on Friday sued President Joe Biden's administration over a new program that offers a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally and are now married to U.S. citizens.

Texas sues over Biden legalization program for immigrants married to US citizens

Kansas State

New Hampshire, OH

Latin Times

SEATTLE - 15 states all across the nation filed federal lawsuits against a Biden administration rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance, also known as 'Obamacare,' next year. The lawsuit argues that...

15 states sue to block Biden from allowing 100,000 'Dreamers' to enroll in 'Obamacare'

Alabama State

(The Center Square) – A coalition of states led by Kansas has sued the Biden-Harris administration to block the federal government from providing free health care through the taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally.
                Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Western Division and was joined by attorneys general from 14 states. The U.S. government and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are named...

15 states sue Biden-Harris administration for enrolling noncitizens in Obamacare

Weeks after publicly supporting Kamala Harris' presidential candidacy, UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S, has introduced a plan aimed at addressing the concerns of Latino voters who prioritize a secure and well-managed border. The three-point plan, which the organization says is designed to be firm, fair,...

Largest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. launches plan to address border challenges

San Bernardino County, CA

Moreno Valley, CA

Law & Crime

In January 2019, the defendant killed Aranda Isabel Briones, 16, and then buried her somewhere in the unforgiving San Bernardino Mountains nearby. To date, the girl's remains have never been found.
The post ‘Get shovels and lighter fluid ready’: Man killed former friend and classmate for getting him expelled from high school first appeared on Law & Crime.

'Get shovels and lighter fluid ready': Man killed former friend and classmate for getting him expelled from high school

New York Post

This smuggling scheme died on the vine.

US Customs Border and Protection officers seized more than $5 million worth of meth disguised as a shipment of watermelons in what the federal agency has dubbed a “seedy situation.”

CBP officers made the bust on Friday at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility in San Diego when they stopped a 29-year-old man hauling a commercial tractor-trailer of the fruits from Mexico to the US.

CBP seizes 4 million pills at Ariz. border in largest fentanyl bust in agency history

When authorities took the truck aside for a secondary inspection, they uncovered 1,220 packages of what was later...

$5M worth of meth disguised as watermelon shipment seized at border in Calif.: ‘Seedy situation’

North Carolina State

Belmont, NC

Town Talks

There’s no argument in many folks’ minds that if you want to get some of the best chicken and unmatched customer service, you go to Chick-fil-A. But now, a North Carolina Chick-fil-A requiring adult supervision for teens is ruffling some feathers.

North Carolina Chick-fil-A Ruffles Feathers With New Policy Regarding Teens

Massachusetts State

A new report claims that Massachusetts is on pace to set a new record number of illegal immigrant deportations in 2024 after spending millions of dollars on housing and programs as illegal immigration has skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration. According to Boston 25, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security filed...

Blue state starts mass deportation as illegal immigration skyrockets: Report

Iowa State

Nebraska State

(The Center Square) – Nine states have filed a lawsuit this week to stop President Joe Biden's executive order concerning federal workers and voter registration.
                The states say that the federal bureaucracy is inserting itself into state electoral systems and the voter registration process without the scrutiny of a public comment period.
                Mississippi, Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota filed a complaint in the...

Nine states file lawsuit to stop Biden voter registration executive order

Illinois State

There is no application available yet. Only select groups of immigrants will be eligible for relief. It is critical that those who believe they may be eligible for relief consult with a reputable legal organization such as The Resurrection Project or the National Immigrant Justice Center or a private immigration attorney before submitting anything to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), or any other federal agency. People must be on high alert because “notarios” and other bad actors will take advantage of the new developments to personally profit.

Biden’s recent immigration actions provide work permits for some; work permits for all is still the goal

Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscience admissions in colleges unconstitutional. The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5%...

MIT's Black student enrollment drops significantly after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

Florida State

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Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

A new program aimed at giving work permits and green card pathways to certain undocumented family members of U.S. citizens is now open for applications. Roughly half a million people are eligible for the program, according to government estimates. And these families — and the U.S. economy — stand to benefit.

The economics behind a new program protecting undocumented family members of U.S. citizens

NewsBreak

California Black Legislative Updates – Education Bills to Watch

Pathways to College: Dual Enrollment, Allied Health Programs, Cal-Bridge, CCC to UC Transfers. AB-1891: Community Colleges: Allied Health Programs introduced by State Assemblymember Dr. Akilah Weber...

California Black Legislative Updates – Education Bills to Watch

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