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[ad_1] HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturday against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been serving an in-school suspension since Aug. 31. Officials with the Houston-area school say his dreadlocks fall below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violate the district’s dress code. READ MORE: Black student in Texas suspended twice for hairstyle…

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[ad_1] Vince Vaugh was definitely in movie mode this weekend ahead of some big college football games — and you can tell by the iconic references he made during his televised picks. The legendary actor was the featured celebrity guest Saturday on ESPN’s “College Game Day” … which made sense considering they did the show from Notre Dame’s campus, this as the university was set to face off against Ohio State. Vince Vaughn & @PatMcAfeeShow are rolling with the Irish ☘️#CollegeGameDay pic.twitter.com/x0kBOrMpzj— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 23, 2023 @CollegeGameDay VV showed up locked and loaded … rocking a ND letterman…

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[ad_1] Both sides blamed each other for the violence in Chebaa Farms and the Kfar Chouba hills area.Lebanon’s army said it has fired tear gas at Israeli forces over the border in response to smoke bombs fired at its troops, though Israel has said Lebanon started the confrontation. Tensions have flared along the frontier for the past several months, with rockets fired at Israel during flare-ups of Israeli-Palestinian violence and members of the heavily armed Lebanese group Hezbollah or its supporters facing off with Israeli forces. “Elements of the Israeli enemy violated the withdrawal line and fired smoke bombs at…

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[ad_1] Biden on Friday said he’d join the picket lines in Michigan on Tuesday. Earlier Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain announced that parts distribution center workers at more than three dozen Stellantis and General Motors facilities across 20 states will join the roughly 12,700 union members taking part in the initial three-plant strike. Trump has recently attempted to firm up support from union workers particularly in rust-belt and battleground states such as Pennsylvania by pushing populist policies at a series of rallies. Biden, meanwhile, who touts himself as “the most union president in American history,” has sought to quell union…

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[ad_1] Pete Davidson is back on the dating scene after a brief hiatus … and he already has a new girlfriend — Outer Banks star Madelyn Cline. Sources close to the “Saturday Night Live” alum tell TMZ … Pete and Madelyn are officially an item, although it’s a mystery where, when and how they first met. But, US Weekly — which first reported the news — said the couple got a room for the night at the Beverly Hills Hotel — and then shared a low-key breakfast the next morning. The budding romance comes on the heels of Pete breaking…

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[ad_1] It was at first quiet and misty in Lafayette Park across from the White House where several hundred from various groups were gathering – namely Virginia National Organization for Women (NOW), Equal Means Equal, and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights – but as the raindrops came and a storm brewed so did a clarion call for women’s equal rights and repro rights. Hours later, a stampede of women warriors from all over the country would join our groups, descending onto 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue demanding to be equal in the U.S. Constitution, wanting to remove the restraints of thousands of…

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[ad_1] TORONTO (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Canada on Friday to stay with his country to victory as he went to the Canadian Parliament seeking to bolster support from Western allies for Ukraine’s war against the Russian invasion. Zelenskyy flew into Canada’s capital late on Thursday after meetings with President Joe Biden and lawmakers in Washington. He spoke at the United Nations’ annual meeting on Wednesday. “Moscow must lose once and for all. And it will lose,” Zelenskyy said during his address in Parliament. Zelenskyy said Canada has always been on the “bright side of history” in fighting previous wars…

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[ad_1] Elon Musk’s Neuralink is on the verge of beginning human testing, and the technology that could potentially help people suffering from all sorts of neurologic disabilities … there’s also potential for massive danger. Play video content TMZ.com Dr. Marcello Ienca, a professor of artificial intelligence, joined us on “TMZ Live” to explain how Neuralink can advance medicine by light years … tackling brain disorders that affect hundreds of millions of people, and even quadriplegia. Dr. Ienca says the first human test groups will be patients living with paralysis, and he breaks down how it almost literally rewires the brain…

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