The Associated Press
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Kansas appears unlikely to join other states this year in banning transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s school sports, in part because conservative state lawmakers want the ban to apply to elementary school students.
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Republican legislators are pushing a redistricting plan that they hope will make the state school board more conservative.
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Key conservative initiatives are likely to fail in Kansas this year because a few Republicans are breaking with the rest of the Legislature's GOP supermajorities.
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The decision restores a humanitarian pardon even though authorities gave no indication the former president's release was imminent.
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Juan Orlando Hernández, whom U.S. prosecutors accused in recent years of funding his political rise with profits from drug traffickers, can appeal the extradition decision.
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The fighting across the country continues as Ukraine's president prepares to speak to the U.S. Congress.
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Some rights activists have voiced concerns that the ban could increase Islamophobia in a country where violence and hate speech against Muslims have increased in recent years.
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While the numbers are small relative to numbers reported in Europe or in the U.S., they are the highest since the first big outbreak of COVID-19 in the central city of Wuhan in early 2020.
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Observers say Russia's use of such corridors were effective in attaining the goals of regaining control of opposition areas.
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The San Antonio coach will try to set the record for most coaching wins on Wednesday.