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Moonlight Pulido stands by the shore at Harbor Lake Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in Los Angeles. California is paying reparations to victims, mostly women, who were either forcibly or coercively sterilized by the government. Pulido was sterilized while incarcerated in 2005. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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California trying to find, compensate sterilization victims
Wed,01/04/23-12:13AM , 129 Reads
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in reparations.
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William "Rick" Singer founder of the Edge College & Career Network, departs federal court in Boston, on March 12, 2019. The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal is set to be sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, after helping authorities secure the convictions of a slew of wealthy parents involved in his scheme to rig the selection process at top-tier schools. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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'Varsity Blues' mastermind faces sentencing for college scam
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
Wed,01/04/23-12:04AM , 272 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal is set to be sentenced on Wednesday after helping authorities secure the convictions of a slew of wealthy parents involved i
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Today in History: January 08, Elvis Presley is born
Tue,01/03/23-5:19AM , 53 Reads
Today in History

Today is Sunday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2023. There are 357 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”

On this date:
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This photo provided by the Federal Public Defender Office shows death row inmate Amber McLaughlin. Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, McLaughlin was put to death Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. (Jeremy S. Weis/Federal Public Defender Office via AP, File)

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Transgender Missouri inmate executed for fatal stabbing
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Mon,01/02/23-11:01PM , 285 Reads
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death Tuesday for a 2003 killing, in what is believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the U.S.
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