[Daily Caller] An Indiana middle school is facing a civil rights complaint over a "racially exclusive party" one teacher hosted for select students in her class.
A sixth-grade teacher at Tippecanoe Valley Middle School in Akron, Indiana, allegedly held a party in January with only Hispanic students while forcing the others to sit in a study hall, according to the complaint filed Friday with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division.
"The School restricted non-Hispanic students from enjoying the privilege of participating in a party celebrating Día de Los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings Day, during school hours, despite the claim that the school loves to ’embrace cultural traditions,'" the complaint by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a conservative legal group, alleges. "The school separated the children by race and let those of the ’right’ race enter the room of celebration, while the others remained outside. This is a clear violation of Title VI." (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Red State University Hit With Civil Rights Complaint For Race-Based Scholarship)
Tippecanoe Valley Middle School did not respond to a request for comment.
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Schools are no longer safe. It's not like what it was. For years now, SCHOOLS and TEACHING attract so many disturbed individuals that entrusting your children to these people , for hours and hours every day, day after day ... it's outdated risky parenting.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck just miles from an Alaskan city already on alert for a possible volcanic eruption.
The Alaska Earthquake Center recorded the tremor near Hope at 12:03am local time (4:03am ET).
The epicenter was located some 33 miles south of Anchorage, where thousands of residents reported feeling light shaking.
Anchorage sits about 78 miles from Mount Spurr, which continues to show signs of unrest with elevated seismic activity and increased gas emissions.
'Felt it from 45 miles north of Anchorage—first heard the building creak, then came a solid shake followed by a slight rolling motion at the end,' one local shared online.
Residents across the region have been warned to 'stay alert for aftershocks and follow local emergency guidance.'
The 4.7 magnitude earthquake is the fifth quake measuring a 4.1 or greater in the South-Central region of Alaska in the last 11 days.
This region is located within a seismically active region known as the Alaska-Aleutian subduction system that is characterized by the Pacific plate subducting (sinking) beneath the North American plate, creating a major earthquake hazard.
[BEA.gov] Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2024, real GDP increased 2.4 percent. The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending. These movements were partly offset by increases in investment, consumer spending, and exports.
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[FoxBusinessNews] UPS and Amazon reached a deal earlier this year to reduce Amazon's volume of UPS shipments
United Parcel Service (UPS) said Tuesday that it will cut about 20,000 jobs and shutter 73 of its facilities as the logistics giant cuts costs amid a move to reduce shipping volumes from its largest customer, Amazon, and broader economic uncertainty.
The move, which amounts to a cut of about 4% of the company's workforce, makes UPS the first big American company to move forward with large-scale layoffs in the face of slowing trade due to the Trump administration's tariffs.
A slowdown in global trade is likely to reduce the need for shipping services between companies, potentially hurting parcel delivery firms.
"The world has not been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years," CEO Carol Tome said during the company's earnings call.
It also comes after UPS announced in January that it reached an agreement with its largest customer, Amazon, to cut its volume by 50% by the second half of 2026. Amazon accounted for 11.8% of UPS' overall revenue in 2024.
"The actions we are taking to reconfigure our network and reduce cost across our business could not be timelier," Tome said.
Last year, UPS said it would cut its workforce by 12,000 jobs, and added that it expects expenses of between $400 million and $600 million related to separation benefits and lease-related cuts in 2025.
UPS also faces a sharp downturn in volume from China-linked bargain e-commerce sellers Temu and Shein after the U.S. moved to collect tariffs on goods that were previously duty-free under a threshold of $800 per individual sale.
To help keep its customers updated about tariffs and trade policy changes, UPS launched a website that tracks various developments in negotiations as well as offers the ability to connect with experts and explore options to manage tariff costs.
UPS is also offering a new UPS Global Checkout service that shows the cost of customs fees and duties on international purchases at checkout.
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As regional facilities increase, Amazon is running their own delivery service. Why would they need UPS? Can you say vertical monopoly boys and girls?
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Amazon has been working towards this for some years now. In addition to "last mile" facilities they have some fairly sketchy drivers making local deliveries in personal vehicles.
At one point they were buying UPS trucks and repainting them in Amazon colors, but those seem to have been replaced by electric vehicles.
The drones will be more widely used as soon as they can convince the FAA and local authorities to okay them.
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It seems like every time I go into a store and try to find something a sales clerk tells me I have to order it online. Well, that means I have to wait for it sometimes for weeks and also that I will have to pay for shipping. Wouldn't it be nice if there were stores where you could actually find stuff, buy it right then and there and take it home?
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Try Bison Mercantile or Spotts lumber in Ashland.
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[REGNUM] On April 28, Spain experienced a global power outage. In some regions, there was no electricity for more than 12 hours. A state of emergency was declared in eight autonomous communities.
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[Regnum] Members of the Hungarian parliament voted for the country's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). This was announced on April 29 by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
Earlier, he reported that he had submitted a bill to parliament on Hungary's withdrawal from the ICC, a vote on it could take place at the end of May, and the decision would come into force in a year. It is noted that this decision was made in connection with the official visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest.
"The Hungarian Parliament has just voted to withdraw from the ICC. By making this decision, we refuse to be part of a politicized institution that has lost its impartiality and authority," diplomat X wrote on social media.
On April 3, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that the country was leaving the ICC due to the organization's excessive politicization and loss of independence.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in November 2024, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, stating that the reason was war crimes in the Gaza Strip. It was specified that the Israeli authorities used hunger in waging war, deliberately attacked civilians and did not allow assistance to be provided to victims.
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George Clooney's wife could be barred from US over ICC warrants British lawyers who helped bring about the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant warned by UK Foreign Office they could face sanctions from the US, including Amal Clooney, wife of famous American actor George Clooney.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck just miles from an Alaskan city already on alert for a possible volcanic eruption.
