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Month: November 2023

North Carolina governor spars with state chamber of commerce over confirmation of Black judicial and board seats

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the state’s chamber of commerce have engaged in a heated back-and-forth correspondence over the confirmation of Black judicial and board nominees in the state, according to a series of letters shared with CNN and published online. Cooper said in a letter sent Friday to the

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Suspected militants kill 5, including 2 soldiers, in pair of bombings in northwest Pakistan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say suspected militants have targeted security forces and a pro-government elder in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing five people, including two soldiers. Wednesday’s first attack occurred in North Waziristan district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing two soldiers. In the second attack, a bomb

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Incoming Philadelphia mayor taps the city’s chief of school safety as next police commissioner

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker has selected longtime police official Kevin J. Bethel to become the next police commissioner of the nation’s sixth most populous city. Parker announced the decision Wednesday. Bethel is a former deputy police commissioner in Philadelphia who since 2019 has served as the chief of safety in the city’s

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Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent’s $700,000 exit deal

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania school board that’s banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes has awarded their superintendent a $700,000 severance package before power changes hands next month. But Democrats taking over the Central Bucks School District from the conservative Moms For Liberty slate hope to block the unusual

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India restores e-visa services for Canadians. The move could ease diplomatic tensions

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian foreign ministry official says that India has restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada. A diplomatic spat erupted between the two countries after Canadian

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