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First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman’s killing

By James Pollard, Associated Press

Ritter is said to have been splitting time between South Carolina, where he had a job and driver’s license, and New York, where he lived with family and was eventually arrested.

News Wrap: Russia cements substantial battlefield win in eastern Ukraine

In our news wrap Monday, Moscow says its forces cleared Ukrainian defenders from a battered Donetsk city, 26 EU members called for an immediate humanitarian pause in Gaza as the death toll passes 29,000, the UN's top court kicked off…

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A Brief But Spectacular take on building trust in school

By Steve Goldbloom

Valor Collegiate Academy in Nashville encourages students to share what's going on in their lives and to accept support, creating what they call a community of care. We hear from high school teacher Natalie Nikitas and Valor students as they…

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Massachusetts school officials ask for governor to send the National Guard to help with unruly high school

By Associated Press

Officials have asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to quell violence and address security concerns at a troubled high school in a city south of Boston. Four of the seven members of the Brockton School…

As South Carolina primary closes in, Nikki Haley is sharpening contrasts with Donald Trump

By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Nikki Haley is using the closing days of the South Carolina GOP primary matchup with Donald Trump to hone her argument that she is the lone remaining candidate who can unite Americans.

Funeral for transgender activist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral drew over 1,000 mourners — and church leaders’ scorn

By Brian P. D. Hannon, Associated Press

The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the Mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism.

Shooting at Indianapolis Waffle House leaves 1 dead, 5 injured, police say

By Isabella Volmert, Associated Press

A woman has been killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Indianapolis.

U.S. awards $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont

By Josh Boak, Associated Press

The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.

Students applying for college facing uncertainty as revised FAFSA delayed

By Adriana Morga, Associated Press

For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they'll get the financial aid they need to attend.

Democrats celebrate ‘major political victory’ as Wisconsin governor signs new legislative district maps into law

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press

Wisconsin's Democratic governor, Tony Evers, has signed new legislative district maps into law that he proposed and that the Republicans who control the Legislature passed to avoid having the liberal-leaning state Supreme Court draw the lines.