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Atlanta Officials Await Decision on ‘Stop Cop City’ Petition Signatures

Invoking a recent court ruling, Atlanta officials declined to validate the tens of thousands of signatures protestors submitted on Monday in an effort to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training complex. The activists had assembled ecstatically after claiming to have more than 116,000 signatures from Atlantans, considerably more than was required to…

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California Lawmakers Repeal Travel Ban on States with Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

California may soon rescind its ban on state-funded travel to countries with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and instead concentrate on an advertising campaign to spread anti-discrimination messaging in countries with conservative governments. Beginning with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee in 2017, California began prohibiting government travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ+ individuals….

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Biden Administration Elevates Abortion Pill Debate to the U.S. Supreme Court

On Friday, the administration of President Joe Biden appealed a lower court decision that would restrict how the drug is administered and distributed in an effort to protect widespread access to the abortion drug mifepristone. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans made a ruling in August that prohibited telemedicine prescriptions and…

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