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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday that would hold back thousands more third graders who don’t pass the state’s literacy test, rejecting opponents’ arguments that it could burden schools and emotionally damage children.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Supporters who want to make South Carolina the next-to-last U.S. state to pass a hate crimes law increasing penalties for some crimes fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation are running out of time to get what could be a decisive vote in the state Senate.
Attorneys for Donald Trump on Wednesday said the former president and his co-defendants plan to post a $100 million bond to pause enforcement of their civil fraud judgment — though that is just a fraction of the total amount that they have been ordered to pay. To secure a "complete" appeal bond — which could cost more than $550 million — would be "impossible," the defense lawyers wrote in a court filing to the appellate division of Manhattan Supreme Court. New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the fraud case, urged the appeals court later Wednesday to deny Trump's bid to stay the judgment. "There is no merit" to the claim that "a full bond is unnecessary because they are willing to post a partial undertaking of less than a quarter of the judgment amount," James wrote. "Defendants all but concede" that Trump "has insufficient liquid assets to satisfy the judgment," she wrote. James highlighted a claim from
The meeting President Joe Biden held with four top congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday was “one of the most intense I’ve ever encountered,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters, as leaders in two branches of government attempt to compromise on Ukraine funding and work to avert a partial shutdown.
