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A Kentucky county clerk defied a federal court order when she denied marriage licenses to two same-sex couples Tuesday.
Rowan County clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses shortly after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June that guaranteed the right for same-sex couples to marry.
Davis was ordered by a federal judge to issue the licenses, and last week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. Read More...
For 15 years, the girls lived parallel lives. Left behind in El Salvador by mothers bound for the United States, they grew up a few miles apart in San Vicente, entering adolescence just as the city sank into gang violence. They fled within weeks of one another, traveling north in 2014 along the same smuggling route before ending up in the Washington suburbs.
It was there that Venus Romero Iraheta and Damaris Reyes Rivas finally met, after becoming entangled in the same violent street gang, MS-13. Read More...
North Carolina’s state school board on Thursday approved new standards requiring social studies teachers to discuss racism, while some board members slammed the move as “anti-American” in one of many fights playing out across the country about how schools teach history.
The state Board of Education voted 7 to 5 to pass the standards for K-12 schools after months of negotiations over the framing of the policy meant to promote a more inclusive curriculum that acknowledges the experiences of marginalized students. Read More...
