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Critics say Tennessee's public drag show ban hurts the entire state's LGBTQ community

6:27pm March 03, 2023

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill banning drag shows in public spaces. Critics of the bill say it could impact not just drag performers, but queer Tennesseans across the board.

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How bills restricting drag could impact high school theatre productions

5:43pm March 03, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

More than a dozen states have proposed bills that would restrict minors' access to drag performances. So where does that leave high school theatre productions like Rent or nontraditional casting?

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World News

Mothers in El Salvador wonder if their imprisoned sons will ever be released

5:04pm March 03, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

El Salvador's government has jailed more than 60,000 people in an effort to end gang dominance. Some mothers whose sons have been swept up and imprisoned are still waiting for answers.

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Former attorney Alex Murdaugh sentenced to two life terms for murder of wife and son

5:04pm March 03, 2023

by Victoria Hansen

Once-prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and son in their small South Carolina town, where respect and fear of the Murdaugh family ran deep.

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Proposal 3 flyers are situated in boxes on Nov. 6, 2022, in Dearborn, Mich. Voters in Michigan passed Prop 3, enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution.

This group gets left-leaning policies passed in red states. How? Ballot measures

4:42pm March 03, 2023

by Laura Benshoff

The Fairness Project has won campaigns to raise the minimum wage and expand Medicaid in nine states dominated by Republicans. Next is abortion. But there's growing pushback from state lawmakers.

National

Jurors convict South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh in deaths of his wife and son

2:32pm March 03, 2023

by Victoria Hansen

Alex Murdaugh, part of a powerful Southern family, was found guilty in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. The guilty verdicts on all charges capped a six-week trial.

Alex Murdaugh was hit with a punishment of two life sentences on Friday, over the double murder of his wife and son in 2021. He's seen here being led into the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing in Walterboro, S.C.

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Alex Murdaugh is sentenced to 2 life terms for the double murder of his wife and son

1:42pm March 03, 2023

The 54-year-old disbarred South Carolina lawyer insisted he was innocent, despite the judge pressing him to confess in open court.

National

South Carolina judge sentences Alex Murdaugh to life in prison

11:54am March 03, 2023

Murdaugh's sentencing Friday came less than 24 hours after a South Carolina jury convicted him for the murders of his wife and son.

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Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez studies past criminal cases his office has prosecuted, inside the county courthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas in 2019.

These Texas DAs refused to prosecute abortion. Republican lawmakers want them stopped

11:53am March 03, 2023

by Bret Jaspers (KERA)

The Texas GOP is pushing a bill that would punish district attorneys who set a policy not to prosecute certain crimes. It comes after many said they wouldn't prosecute abortion cases following Dobbs.

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Why are people across the country so interested in a South Carolina murder trial?

5:06am March 03, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Liz Farrell, co-host of the Murdaugh Murders podcast.