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US Supreme Court considers Trump’s effort to limit birthright citizenship

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious plan tied to his efforts to curb immigration that would ...
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HKTVmall parent firm defends research into preserving detached animal heads and limbs

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG, April 1 (Reuters) - Hong Kong Technology Venture Company, the parent of online retailer HKTVmall, has disclosed experiments in which animal limbs and heads were kept viable for hours after being detached from the body - work it says is ...
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Analysis-As Trump weighs US vaccine appeal, Kennedy supporters want a fight

By Bo Erickson and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are pressing for a fight for the U.S. vaccine overhaul their "Make America Healthy Again" movement helped create. But two weeks after a court ruling halted key ...
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North Carolina’s electoral future may hinge on rural Black voters who feel ignored by Democrats

NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Ricky Brinkley has lived in rural North Carolina nearly all of his 65 years, and he likes it "out in the county," past the street lights and bustle of the small towns that carpet the landscape. But the former truck driver ...
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Advocacy groups urge YouTube to protect kids from ‘AI slop’ videos

Advocacy groups and experts condemned YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most vulnerable audience: children. In a letter to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan and Sundar Pichai, the CEO of YouTube's parent company Google, children's advocacy group Fairplay expresses "serious concern" ...
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ROE26 Announces Leadership Transition

The Regional Office of Education #26 (ROE26) today announced a leadership transition that will continue the organization’s long-standing mission of supporting schools, educators, and students across west-central Illinois. John Meixner is retiring as Regional Superintendent of the four-county Regional Office of Education #26 as of ...
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SRC Community Chorus to Present WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS

The Spoon River College Community Chorus and the Canton History & Arts Alliance present WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS, a multi-focus staged musical, at 7:00 p.m. on June 28th, at the Opera House Plaza in downtown Canton. The production will be free and open to ...
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From TMZ to Trump, pressure grows to bring Congress back during partial shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) - TMZ built its brand tracking celebrities. Now it's turning its attention to Congress, chasing down paparazzi-style shots of lawmakers on break from Washington during a record-long partial government shutdown. Videos and photos posted by the tabloid website showing lawmakers in airports, Las ...
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Supreme Court hears high-profile fight over Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term's most consequential cases, President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. Trump ...
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Record low Colorado mountain snow won’t bode well for water in the drought-stricken US West

WALDEN, Colo. (AP) - Hydrologist Maureen Gutsch trudged through the mud and slush to confirm a grim picture: Colorado just had its worst snowpack since statewide record keeping began in 1941. Even more troubling, mountain snow accumulations peaked a month early and contained just half ...
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First Student Running on Agreement

A tentative agreement has been reached between First Student school bus drivers and the company, bringing relief to families in the Sterling and Rock Falls districts. The union and company negotiations had intensified, with a strike planned for this week that threatened to disrupt ...
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US judge rejects IRS pact allowing churches to endorse political candidates

By Nate Raymond March 31 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday declined to approve a Trump administration-crafted settlement that would have allowed churches and other houses of worship to endorse political candidates to their congregations without risking losing their status as tax-exempt nonprofits. U.S. District ...
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