Picture This: Back to School at First Friday
Marietta’s September First Friday's theme was Back to School and featured a performance by 17-year-old local musician Luke Colombo as part of the concert series. (Photo by Sophie Wheeler)
Trump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights survey
The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity. The numbers come from the Education Department's Civil Rights Data Collection, a federal survey of nearly every public school in the nation. The release this week covers the 2023-2024 school year, when the survey included "nonbinary" as a gender category alongside male and female. However, an Associated Press analysis shows that in every column for information related to gender ...
EPA seeks more public comments as it struggles to devise water rule that limits scope on wetlands
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking additional public comments as it tries to redefine the scope of the nation's bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers. The request, announced Friday, comes nearly a year after the agency proposed a rule defining "waters of the United States," or WOTUS, based on a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that removed federal protections for vast areas. The plea for new information is highly unusual and reflects the complexity of the water rule, a contentious regulation that has been argued in the courts for ...
Rocchio’s walk-off home run helps Guardians rally
CLEVELAND (AP) — Brayan Rocchio hit a walk-off homer in the ninth inning after connecting on a tying grand slam in the fourth, rallying the Cleveland Guardians to a 7-6 comeback victory over the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a split doubleheader on Friday. With the win, the Guardians ...
Vance says Iran fight isn’t a ‘war’ as Trump tries to navigate unpopular conflict as election nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday rejected the use of the word "war" to describe the U.S. fighting with Iran as he steered clear of predicting that the 6-month-old conflict would be over by November's midterm elections, in which Republicans are trying to hang on to their narrow majorities in Congress. "I wouldn't call it a war," Vance said after being asked during a White House press briefing about whether the fighting could end before voters cast their ballots in the Nov. 3 congressional elections. "Right now, there is no active shooting." Vance's assertion came ...
Democrats try to brush aside ‘Woke 1’
"'Woke 1' was crazy." So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on ABC News' "This Week" earlier this month. She said she was quoting New York City Councilman Chi Osse, whom The New York Times characterizes as "far left." This was where Ocasio-Cortez seemed to be located on the ideological spectrum after her surprise defeat of House Democratic leadership member Joseph Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary. At that time, she was a 28-year-old former waitress and organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign. Today, a decade later, she's a nationally known ...