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Australia decides referendum question to create Black Voice
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Thursday released the wording of a referendum question that promises the nation’s Indigenous population a greater say on policies that effect their lives. Australians will vote sometime between October and December on the...
Black leaders reflect on Nashville merger in 1960s
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At just 10 years old, Linda Wynn, now assistant director for state programs at the Tennessee Historical Commission, had a front-row seat to the birth of Nashville’s metropolitan government in the early 1960s. Nashville was in the middle of a post-WWII population boom,...
Anti-abortion allies change tactics after post-Roe defeats
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans and their anti-abortion allies, who suffered a series of defeats in ballot questions in states across the political spectrum last year, are changing tactics as new legislative sessions and the new election season start. In states where citizens...
S. Carolina House OKs referendum on state aid for private ed
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House moved to allow the repeal of a constitutional prohibition on funding private schools with public dollars as a Republican-backed voucher plan advances in the General Assembly. Conservative states have renewed the push to create...
Bill that could let Buckhead split from Atlanta advances
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee has approved two bills that could allow the Buckhead neighborhood to secede from the city of Atlanta, the first time that an issue freighted with fears about crime and racial and economic division has moved forward in the General Assembly. ...
Indiana bill for switch to partisan school boards stalls
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new push by Republican Indiana lawmakers to have local school board candidates run with political party affiliations has stalled for this year's legislative session, as they did not advance the proposal before a Monday deadline. A legislative committee had...
3 contenders running to replace Sturgeon as Scottish leader
LONDON (AP) — Three members of the Scottish parliament will battle to become leader of the governing Scottish National Party, officials said Friday after the deadline for nominations closed. Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and lawmaker Ash...
Sturgeon’s exit leaves Scottish independence path unclear
LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s independence movement needs a new leader — and a new plan. With the resignation of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the decades-long campaign by Scottish nationalists to secede from the United Kingdom is losing its star politician and strongest...
Vote to block Georgia spaceport upheld by state's high court
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court Tuesday upheld an election in which coastal residents voted overwhelmingly last year to block their county government from building a launchpad for blasting commercial rockets into space. The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejected a...
Indigenous senator quits party over Australian referendum
CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) — An Indigenous senator in Australia quit the minor Greens party on Monday in a disagreement over a referendum to be held this year that would create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Sen. Lidia Thorpe’s resignation illustrates deep divisions among...
