Southwestern Community College in North Carolina has been allowing students to attend classes virtually on Fridays for the last two weeks. …read more

https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/some-colleges-go-virtual-because-of-rising-gas-prices/

The Tennessee education department has awarded $27 million in grants for communities to start tutoring programs for the 2022-2023 school year. …read more

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tn-education-department-awards-27-million-grants-five-communities

Rusty Bowers, the Republican House speaker in Arizona, says he’d vote for Trump in 2024 against Biden despite testifying about Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona and the threats he received after he refused.

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https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/06/23/rusty-bowers-trump-2024-chris-wallace-newday-vpx.cnn

Xichen Yang has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly slashing his wife Nhu Quynh Pham’s throat, placing her in a bathtub and holding her hand for 10 minutes as she bled to death.  …read more

https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/man-accused-of-slitting-wifes-throat-then-playing-her-favorite-song/

The mandate had divided the country, with many citizens protesting against it. Austria has one of the EU’s lowest vaccination rates. …read more

https://www.dw.com/en/austria-scraps-covid-vaccine-mandate/a-62236080?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

American churches are closing faster than new churches open, despite four out of five saying they believe in God and nine in 10 that believe in a higher power. …read more

https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-churches-closing-faster-new-ones-open

Including LGBT conservatives in the Republican Party’s big tent signals to new potential supporters that their vote is welcome within the GOP.

     

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http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/700214818/0/usatoday-newstopstories~Gays-have-a-place-in-Trumps-Republican-Party-no-matter-what-Texas-GOP-calls-abnormal/

Full investigation

     

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http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/697694988/0/usatoday-newstopstories~Title-IX-Falling-short-at/

Survivors dug by hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people. …read more

https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/afghanistan-quake-kills-1000-survivors-dig-out-by-hand/

Armed burglars broke into the Atlanta home of retired NBA player Vince Carter while his wife and kids were inside and stole nearly $100,000 in cash over the weekend, according to police.  …read more

https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/former-nba-player-vince-carters-atlanta-home-burglarized-nearly-100k-stolen/