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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

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The Other Victims: First Responders Often Suffer in Solitude
The day a gunman fired into a crowd of 22,000 people at the country music festival in Las Vegas, hospital nursing supervisor Antoinette Mullan was focused on one thing: saving lives.
July 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Poised to Pass Nation's 'Strongest Net Neutrality Protection'
Ending a dispute over a proposed net neutrality bill, California Democratic legislators said Thursday they have agreed on a proposal that would provide the strongest protections of open access to the internet in the country in response to last month's federal repeal of similar rules.
July 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Occupy ICE' Protest Raided by Philadelphia Police
Philadelphia police abruptly raided and destroyed the "Occupy ICE" encampment set up by protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Center City on Thursday afternoon.
July 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Going to Hawaii? Soon You Can't Bring Sunscreen That Harms Coral Reefs.
Hawaii became the first state in the nation to ban sales of sunscreens containing chemicals deemed harmful to coral reefs after Gov. David Ige signed a bill into law Tuesday afternoon at the Capitol Rotunda in Honolulu.
July 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Transgender People Get More Rights, in Life and Death, in New Jersey
For the first time, transgender people living in New Jersey have the legal right to alter the sex recorded on their birth and death certificates, under new laws enacted Tuesday by Gov. Phil Murphy.
July 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Immigration Fight, Judge Largely Rules in Favor of California's Sanctuary Laws
A federal judge upheld the core of California's sanctuary laws Thursday, restricting state and local cooperation with federal immigration agents, and sent a terse message to the Trump administration: Solutions to the immigration impasse must come from Congress, not the courts.
July 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
9-1-1
Phone number that a woman in Oregon called to report a black woman who was knocking on doors in her neighborhood. The black woman was state Rep. Janelle Bynum, who is running for reelection and was talking to her constituents.
July 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Voting, participating meaningfully in civic life, and accessing justice require some measure of literacy [but] do not necessarily make access to literacy a fundamental right.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III's ruling in a case against Michigan state officials for alleged systemic failures that led to the illiteracy of Detroit students.
July 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Literacy Is Not a Fundamental Right, Rules Judge in Case Against Michigan
Few could dispute the importance of literacy. But children have no fundamental right to learn to read and write, according to a federal judge whose ruling in a closely watched lawsuit Friday left some disheartened and others raising questions.
July 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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One Nazi Candidate in Illinois, Two Different Responses From Republicans Bruce Rauner and Ted Cruz
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner refused to follow Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s lead and call on voters of a Chicago-area congressional district to back a Democrat over a declared Nazi candidate in November.
July 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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