Author: Bobby Calvan
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New York to restrict gun carrying after Supreme Court ruling
NEW YORK • Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards across New York’s Times Square, city authorities are posting new signs proclaiming the bustling crossroads a “Gun Free Zone.” The sprawling Manhattan tourist attraction is one of scores of “sensitive” places — including parks, churches and theaters — that will be off limits for guns…
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Florida bans ‘critical race theory’ from its classrooms
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. • Florida’s state Board of Education banned “critical race theory” from public school classrooms Thursday, adopting new rules it said would shield schoolchildren from curricula that could “distort historical events.” Florida’s move was widely expected as a national debate intensifies about how race should be used as a lens in classrooms to examine…
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Florida governor OKs limits on transgender student athletes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. • Florida’s Republican governor signed a bill Tuesday barring transgender girls and women from playing on public school teams intended for student athletes identified as girls at birth, plunging the state into the national culture debate over transgender rights. “In Florida, girls are going to play girls sports and boys are going to…
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Rescuers reach people cut off by Sally
PENSACOLA, Fla. • Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used high-water vehicles Thursday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, even as flooding remained a problem along rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains. Across southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, homeowners and businesses began cleaning up, and…