The first commercial U.S. flight to Cuba in more than five decades is heading from Florida to the island nation Wednesday morning, the latest step in normalizing relations between the two Cold War foes.
Last week, the Justice Department announced it would sue the state of Georgia for running a network of schools that segregated students with disabilities from those without, denying them equal access to services and educational opportunities. The lawsuit, which seeks to desegregate the state's program of so-called psycho-educational schools, could prompt school districts across the country to look closely at whether they are illegally separating students with disabilities from their peers.
The DOJ alleges in the suit that Georgia violated title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by public entities. "Georgia has relegated thousands of students with behavior-related disabilities to separate, segregated, and unequal settings, and placed other students at serious risk of entering such settings," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta in a statement.
A 43-year-old woman walked into Rep. Danny Davis’ (D-IL) Chicago office on Tuesday afternoon and spoke briefly with staffers before drinking and dousing herself in hand sanitizer and setting herself on fire with a lighter, according to local police. [...]
The congressman said hospital officials called to say the woman was hospitalized and undergoing treatment but in stable condition.
Chris Brown was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday, the Los Angeles police department confirmed to USA TODAY.
Brown was "arrested at some point this afternoon," says LAPD detective Meghan Aguilar. Although an exact time was not available, she said Brown was arrested before 5 p.m. The R&B star was booked into an LAPD jail facility before being transferred to county jail and posting bail.
Brown was released on $250,000 bail, NBC News and Entertainment Tonight reported.
Prior to European colonization, scientists believe that Africa may have held as many as 20 million elephants; by 1979 only 1.3 million remained -- and the census reveals that things have gotten far worse.
According to the GEC, released Thursday in the open-access journal
PeerJ, Africa's savannah elephant population has been devastated, with just 352,271 animals in the countries surveyed -- far lower than previous estimates.
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