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Columbus, OH

The Independent

 A court in Thailand on Wednesday ordered the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward Party, which won national elections in 2023, saying it violated the constitution by proposing an amendment of a law against defaming the country’s royal family.The Constitutional Court said it voted unanimously to dissolve the party because its campaign to amend the law was considered an attempt to overthrow the nation's constitutional monarchy.The Election Commission filed a petition against the Move Forward Party after the Constitutional Court ruled in January that it must stop advocating changes to the law, known as Article 112, which protects the...

Thai court dissolves progressive Move Forward Party, which won election but failed to take power

A Thai court on Wednesday ordered the kingdom’s most popular political party to be disbanded, a verdict that delivers a major blow to the vibrant progressive movement and one that threatens to bring more political turbulence to Thailand.

Thai court orders election-winning party to dissolve in major blow to kingdom’s popular progressive movement

Mediaite

Six House Democrats voted with Republicans to condemn the Biden administration — and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris — for their failure to secure the United States’ southern border with Mexico on Thursday. Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME), Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Don Davis (D-NC) Marie...

Six House Democrats Just Voted to Condemn Kamala Harris for Her ‘Failure’ as ‘Border Czar’

Missouri State

 Democratic representative Cori Bush became the second member of the Squad to lose her primary as county prosecutor Wesley Bell beat her in a grueling and expensive primary on Tuesday evening.Pro-Israel groups spent massive amounts of money to depose Bush in the district where she pulled off an upset victory against a longtime incumbent Democrat in 2020. The United Democracy Project, a super PAC of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, spent $9.2m against Bush, according to AdImpact. That made the primary the second-most expensive one of the year after UDP spent millions in opposition to fellow Squad member...

Cori Bush becomes the second Squad member to lose her primary as she’s ousted from Missouri seat

Rhode Island State

The Associated Press

The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence. Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died...

Crew of Titan sub knew they were going to die before implosion, according to more than $50M lawsuit

Utah State

Cedar City, UT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who killed his girlfriend’s mother by cutting her throat was put to death by lethal injection early Thursday in the state’s first execution since 2010. Taberon Dave Honie, 48, was convicted of aggravated murder in the July 1998 death...

Utah man who killed woman is put to death by lethal injection in state’s first execution since 2010

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Saint Louis, MO

USA TODAY

It was the second most expensive House primary in U.S. history, after the contest for Rep. Jamaal Bowman's Bronx-area seat this year.

Cori Bush becomes second 'Squad' member to lose 2024 primary as Democrats split over Israel

Albuquerque, NM

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Three people have been found dead at a southeast Albuquerque home in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Monday. Albuquerque police said it appears a 22-year-old man fatally shot his 20-year-old sister and 17-year-old brother before turning the gun on himself. Police said the three all...

Man and 2 siblings found dead at an Albuquerque home, police say it appears to be a murder-suicide

New York State

Fox News

GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney praised House Republicans on Thursday after they passed the SAVE Act which prevents illegal immigrants from voting in elections.

'Terrible message': GOP lawmaker fumes after only 5 House Dems support bill requiring citizenship to vote

PARIS (AP) — In the wake of a Chinese doping scandal, Michael Phelps doubled down Monday on his support for tougher sanctions — including a lifetime ban for anyone who tests positive for a banned substance. “If you test positive, you should never be allowed to come back...

One and done: Michael Phelps calls for a lifetime ban for anyone who’s caught doping

Georgia State

Tropical Storm Debby has drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina and is not finished bringing heavy rain to the eastern U.S. Debby was centered just east of Savannah on Tuesday afternoon. (AP Video: John Minchillo) HUGER, S.C. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby has made a second landfall in South Carolina on its way up the East Coast, where residents as far north as Vermont could get several inches of rain this weekend. The National Hurricane Center says Debby came ashore early Thursday near Bulls Bay, South Carolina. The storm is expected to keep moving inland, spreading heavy rain and possible flooding all the way up through the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast by the weekend. Debby first made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday on the Gulf Coast of Florida. It is now a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds at 50 mph (80 kph).

Tropical Storm Debby makes 2nd landfall in South Carolina, heavy rain expected up the East Coast

Pennsylvania State

Fox Business

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a potential Democrat running mate for Vice President Harris, expressed his opposition to Nippon Steel's bid to buy U.S. Steel in remarks Tuesday.

Potential Dem VP pick says he can't support US Steel-Nippon Steel merger

UPI News

Black Lives Matter is demanding the Democratic National Committee host a virtual snap primary before its convention in August, as the group blasted the "undemocratic process" that "anointed" Kamala Harris.

Black Lives Matter demands virtual primary, calls Democrats 'party of hypocrites'

Milwaukee, WI

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors charged four Milwaukee hotel employees Tuesday with being a party to felony murder in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death. Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for about nine minutes. Floyd’s death sparked a national reckoning on race relations marked by multiple protests around the country.

4 hotel employees charged with being party to felony murder in connection with Black man’s death

Herbie J Pilato

Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate disappointed fans of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was one of Harris’ finalists for the job and seen as someone who could help Democrats win a key swing state and make history by electing the first Jewish vice president. With his history of winning three statewide elections in Pennsylvania, Shapiro was seen as someone with particular appeal to moderate voters. His state’s 19 votes in the Electoral College have long been critical for candidates trying to reach the necessary 270 to win. But the same things about Shapiro that appealed to moderates angered some on the left in his party: his support for a private school voucher program and natural gas infrastructure as well as particularly his support for Israel’s war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.  Some Democrats lamented what they said was a missed opportunity by bypassing Shapiro. Republicans, meanwhile, tried to paint Harris’ choice as a snub to Jewish voters, a traditionally Democratic constituency that former President Donald Trump has tried to court in this year’s race. 

Some Democratic backers of Josh Shapiro see a missed chance for a Jewish vice president

Nevada State

County commissioners in rural northeastern Nevada decided Wednesday not to submit a plan to hand-count votes in November, but some officials said they support implementing it in future election cycles in the latest debate over voting machines across the Western swing state. Elko County commissioners said it was far too close to the election to implement such a plan — parts of which they acknowledged did not meet state guidelines for hand-counting.  Instead organizers and some officials said they supported lobbying state officials to allow more methods of hand-counting than what are currently outlined in those guidelines, which they say are too arduous, in the future.  Commissioners in the deep-red county of ranches and mining communities have long grappled with the issue. Public comment on election issues in recent years have been marked by election conspiracy theories alleging widespread voter fraud and purported algorithms that alter votes. 

Nevada county won't hand-count in 2024, but some officials support doing so in the future

Alaska State

Troy, TX

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended search efforts for four people who were missing after the boat they were on capsized near Homer in south-central Alaska on Saturday. The missing were identified by a relative as a family of four from Troy, Texas — Mary...

Family of 4 from Texas missing after boat capsizes in Alaska, report says

A court in Thailand on Wednesday ordered the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward Party, which finished first in last year’s general election, saying it violated the constitution by proposing an amendment of a law against defaming the country’s royal family. (AP video shot by Jerry Harmer)

Former MFP leader: ‘absolutely proud of what I have achieved’ following dissolution of party by court

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