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The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from his city’s library because LGBTQ books are on the shelves.

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.

Judge throws out Biden administration’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale  The Washington Post Federal judge cites climate crisis in decision to cancel oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico  CNN Judge tosses Biden admin Gulf of Mexico

Trump faces MAGA revolt over endorsement – POLITICO  POLITICO

All eyes are now on Vladimir Putin, who will decide how Russia will respond amid fears that Europe could again be plunged into war. (Image credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

There is one piece of good financial news out this week: wages have gone up across the board in the past year. A new report from the ADP Research Institute, which tracks payroll data, shows that U.S. wages for existing

Joe Biden has warned Ukraine’s president there is a “distinct possibility” Russia could take military action against the country in February.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday ordered his staff to quickly develop an “action plan” for improving how the Pentagon limits and responds to civilian casualties caused by American airstrikes. He called protection of civilians vital to

The Man at the Center of Arizona’s Primary Is Donald Trump  The New York Times

Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement paves the way for President Joe Biden’s promised nomination of a Black woman to the Supreme Court. White House correspondent Geoff Bennett begins the report, and congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins Judy Woodruff with more