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Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in an Alabama redistricting case, speaks following Supreme Court oral arguments on Oct. 4, 2022.The court on Thursday ruled in favor of Milligan in the case, ordering the creation of a second Alabama congressional district with a large Black population.Patrick Semansky/AP MONTGOMERY, Ala.

The push comes amid a record-breaking increase in gun violence.People march to the Capitol to protest for a ban on assault weapons, in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 2023.Aaron Schwartz / Xinhua via Getty Images A group of Democrats is launching a push to force a vote in the Republican-dominated House on a proposal to ban assault weapons and enact other gun control initiatives as gun violence reaches a record high in the U.S.
With the support of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), three Democrats have each taken the helm of a discharge petition to force votes on three different proposals aimed at addressing the gun violence epidemic.

Dozens of GOP lawmakers encouraged Meadows to continue to "fight" the legitimate 2020 presidential election results.Former White House Chief of Staff during the Trump administration Mark Meadows speaks during a forum titled House Rules and Process Changes for the 118th Congress at FreedowmWorks headquarters on November 14, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Drew Angerer / Getty Images Recently released text messages between former President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and dozens of Republican members of Congress reveal the extent to which Trump's inner circle sought to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election.

Florida Governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign stop at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on June 2, 2023.LOGAN CYRUS / AFP via Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of poor Floridians have been kicked off Medicaid in recent weeks as their Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, travels the country for his 2024 presidential bid and rakes in campaign cash from big donors.

Former major league pitcher passed away last Saturday, according to an obituary from a South Carolina funeral home.He was 73 years old.A native of Florence, South Carolina, Hood was a first-round pick of the Orioles in the 1969 draft.He reached the majors within four years, debuting during his age-23 season.

A legal attempt to ban abortion in Iowa after six weeks of pregnancy failed on Friday, after the State Supreme Court deadlocked over whether to vacate a lower court's injunction and allow the ban to take effect.That means abortion will remain legal in Iowa through 20 weeks of pregnancy.As one state after another banned or sharply limited access to abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Iowa's status as a place where abortion remained accessible was at stake.

With his right flank in open revolt and keeping a stranglehold on the House floor, Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces two unappealing choices for how to govern.He can cater to the demands of hard-right members of his conference, pushing through bills that will face a bipartisan legislative buzz saw in the Senate.

The USPTO began establishing satellite offices a decade ago to expand beyond the traditional Alexandria (Washington DC) headquarters.We now have offices in Detroit, Dallas, Denver, and San Jose.Last year, Congress voted to further expand the decentralization by at least one more.The Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022 (UAIA) mandates creation of a Southeast Regional Office (SERO).

"To foster and expand a 'vibrant and inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem supported by intellectual property across the United States,' the USPTO is asking stakeholders to weigh in on 16 total questions in its RFC."The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday republished its Request for Comments (RFC) on the establishment of an additional USPTO Regional Office in the southeast region and four new community outreach offices.

The U.S. Supreme Court has about four weeks left to release opinions for more than two dozen cases it heard this term.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them.Opinions usually are scheduled for Thursday, but with time running out, the court will likely add days in which it will release its decisions.

The Giants are signing free agent defensive tackle Kobe Smith, Smith's agent, Christina Phillips, told Art Stapleton of northjersey.com.The Giants worked out Smith on Thursday.Smith signed with the Titans in 2020 after a four-year career at South Carolina, where he made 84 tackles and two sacks.He has spent time on the practice squad of the Titans, Bucs and Falcons and also has spent time with the Eagles.

Even if you're not into the sports, you must feel the palpable energy in South Florida as the Miami Heat and the Florida Panthers (never give up, kids) battle for championships this weekend.We don't need to mention this to any of the out-of-towners from Denver and Las Vegas who are wandering around ( welcome, Nuggets and Golden Knights fans !) but the current state of South Florida sports is something we've never experienced.

MIAMI GARDENS - Last season, Dolphins cornerback Kader Kohou, as an undrafted rookie from Texas A&M-Commerce, learned how to survive in the NFL.He started 13 games, and despite often playing with a cast on his right hand to protect an injured thumb and battling an oblique injury, he ended with 72 tackles, one interception, 10 passes defended and one forced fumble.

MIAMI GARDENS - Miami Dolphins minicamp is over and training camp starts in six weeks or so.Players and coaches left a vapor trail as they exited the field Thursday and headed off to their summer vacations.But in the smoke we find some final thoughts from the three days of on-field work:
- Overall, it was a highly productive offseason for the Dolphins, starting with acquiring defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and cornerback Jalen Ramsey, and continuing through minicamp.

Nobody likes knocking elbows while brushing their teeth.In this lookbook, we collect 10 bathrooms with interesting takes on double sinks from the Dezeen archive.Sometimes called his-and-hers sinks, double sinks immediately introduce a luxurious feel to the bathroom.The 10 examples below feature varying contemporary interpretations of this classic design flourish.

The Central Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale brings together 16 architects, including David Adjaye and Diébédo Francis Kéré, who "represent a distilled force majeure of African and diasporic architectural production".Force Majeure is one of six shows that make up The Laboratory of the Future, the 18th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is curated by Lesley Lokko.

Visitors from a foreign planet might think Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida had been delivered a tremendous gift this week when his main presidential rival was charged with mishandling the country's national security secrets.But as Mr. DeSantis's latest speech showed, this is a turn of events he will need to beware.

Everyone knows what a "dad joke" is.Whether they're funny or not is almost immaterial to the point of them: They're cheesy, they're designed to get an eye roll out of grumpy tweens and kids, or a downright laugh out of others.The dad joke, as it were, is a fairly universal dad experience.But apparently, some dad jokes are way more popular in certain states than others.

In the topsy-turvy world of 2024 Republican politics, rivals of Donald J. Trump had been bracing for weeks for his second indictment with more dread than any sense of opportunity.After years of successive scandals, the immediate instincts of so many Republican voters are thoroughly ingrained.They snap to Mr. Trump's defense, no matter how outrageous the charges are or who is making them Democrats, the news media, local prosecutors or, now, federal ones.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is rejecting GOP criticism of the debt limit deal he struck with President Joe Biden and pushed back on Senate Republican demands that Congress ramp up defense spending after the new law fell short of the levels sought by leading defense hawks.McCarthy's comments foreshadow a battle within his own party as he faces pressure from his right-flank to hold the line on federal spending and demands from Republican senators to pour more money into the Pentagon.

President Biden hosted Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark at the White House on Monday to discuss security initiatives, including providing military support to Ukraine, amid reports that Kyiv may be stepping up its long-planned counteroffensive against Russian forces.One of the main discussion topics between Mr. Biden and Ms. Frederiksen, according to the White House, involved Ukraine's demand for American-made F-16 warplanes.

As the politicians and Republican Party officials tossed out the red meat on Saturday at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Wayne Johnson, a 70-year-old farmer and financial consultant from Forest City, Iowa, had some quieter thoughts about the next president he would like to see.The violence in American schools and public places, the tribalism in politics, the negativity of the nation's elected officials If a leader can take us in a positive direction, people will follow, Mr. Johnson said.

After his unusual, buzzy and ill-fated presidential debut on Twitter last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida carried out a far more traditional campaign tour this week, barnstorming Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to sell himself as the strongest Republican alternative to former President Donald J. Trump.

In this third installment of the 2023 NBA Draft according to YODA (short for Ye Olde Draft Analyzer), I turn to the forwards.Previously, I wrote about first round guards and wings.To my way of thinking, there are four meaningful NBA positions:


Guards - traditional point guards and shooting guards who don't have the size to play traditional small forward (think Bradley Beal, Monte Morris, Jordan Goodwin)
Wings - traditional SGs and SFs who don't have the skills/aptitude of a PG but aren't big enough to tussle with the big boys (think Corey Kispert, Will Barton)
Forwards - traditional PFs or SFs but aren't full-time centers (think Kyle Kuzma, Deni Avdija, Rui Hachimura)
Centers - the big guys who patrol the paint and protect the rim but generally not quick enough to defend the perimeter or keep up with wings and guards (think Daniel Gafford, Kristaps Porzingis)


For the uninitiated, YODA is my self-made stat-driven system using publicly available information.

President Joe Biden will appoint a new federal coordinator to address the increase in book bans enacted across different states part of a slew of new actions the administration will announce on Thursday aimed at protecting the LGBTQ+ community.Biden will announce the actions ahead of hosting what White House Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tanden called the largest Pride celebration in White House history.

For many in the LGBTQ+ community and their allies, Pride Month feels like a party, and in some ways - between the drag shows, star-studded festivals and omnipresent drink specials - it is!But June is also a dedicated time of year to commemorate queer history.It is a time to learn something new about LGBTQ+ culture.

Red Sox Marcelo Mayer made his home debut with the Sea Dogs at Hadlock Field on Tuesday night.The Mayer family received some great news last week.After a blistering stretch at the plate with High-A Greenville, Marcelo Mayer earned the call-up to Double-A Portland.It was an anticipated step forward for the Red Sox' top prospect, but one still well ahead of schedule for the 20-year-old shortstop.

He may not make it to the Oval Office.But he will make it into the history books, at least as an asterisk.As Mike Pence formally kicks off his underdog campaign for the White House on Wednesday, he will become something almost unheard-of since the founding of the republic a former vice president running against the president who originally put him on the ticket.

The chatty daytime talk show The View might seem like an unlikely platform for Tim Scott, a senator from South Carolina and a presidential candidate, to get his footing with Republican primary voters, but he saw an opening on Monday and tried to make the most of it.Mr. Scott, the first Black Republican from the South elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, had asked for an audience on the show after a co-host, Joy Behar, said Mr. Scott doesn't get it when he denies the existence of systemic racism, which is why, she said, he is a Republican.

UMortgage, a growing nationwide mortgage platform, announced last week the addition of MC Mortgage Group to its network.MC Mortgage Group, a mortgage brokerage based in Wilmington, North Carolina, serves homebuyers across North and South Carolina.Patrick Stoy, president of MC Mortgage Group, established the brokerage in 2005 and brings with him 24 years of experience in the housing industry.

Fewer guns plus more gun control add up to less gun carnage.That's logical.And it's a fact.California is proof.So is Mississippi.We're a state with arguably the nation's strictest gun laws.And we've got one of the lowest rates of gun deaths.States with lax gun controls have some of the highest gun death rates.

Do you know who is polling third in the 2024 Republican race for president?That may feel like an odd question given that the two leading candidates, former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are the only ones averaging over 5% nationally.The answer, though, is former Vice President Mike Pence and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, both tied at just 4%.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a CNN town hall on Sunday as the field of hopefuls vying for the party's 2024 nomination continues to grow.Haley, who served almost two years as US ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, entered the GOP nominating contest in February and has had to navigate running against her former boss, who is seen as the current Republican front-runner.