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By Pooja Salhotra and Robert Downen, The Texas Tribune May 30, 2024 "Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Elementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts lessons with teachings on the Bible, marking the latest push by Texas Republicans to put more Christianity in public schools.read more

You might think Russia would be leery of going after wives and daughters of their mobilized troops and calling them, in effect, enemies of the state would be a bad idea and they wouldn't do something so stupid. If you thought that you'd be wrong. Source: Russian Life On Friday, Russia's Justice Ministry added "The Path Home" (Путь Домой), a grassroots organization of family and community members who defend the rights of those who have been mobilized to fight in Russia's War on Ukraine, to its Orwellian "Foreign Agents" list. The Path Home was a subject of a feature article in the Spring 2024 issue of Russian Life, which was translated and reprinted from Cherta (also a "foreign agent"). The Justice Ministry said that Путь Домой had worked to create a "negative image" of Russia and the Russian army and that it had called for illegal protests.

A new Fox News poll in Nevada finds Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in the presidential race, 50% to 45%. In a potential expanded race, the new survey finds Trump’s advantage over Biden stays at 5 points (45% vs. 40%), with third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. getting 7%, and Jill Stein and Cornel West at 2% each.

“Donald Trump’s search for a running mate has reached a more intensive phase, with his campaign requesting documents from at least eight contenders, half of whom are U. S. senators,” the Washington Post reports.

“Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun is about to be revoked by the New York City Police Department (his concealed carry permit was suspended back in April 2023, after his first indictment was handed down),” the Daily Beast reports. “This is to say, the man who could very well be in charge of the U.

“Two former law enforcement officers who defended the U. S. Capitol from rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were jeered by state GOP lawmakers as they visited Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Wednesday,” the Washington Post reports.