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[FoxNews] Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the state could not exclude faith-based schools from its Town Tuitioning Fund
Keith and Valori Radonis were eager to send their three children to St. Dominic Academy – a prestigious co-ed Catholic school for students in grades K-12 – hoping to qualify for the state's Town Tuitioning Fund, a taxpayer-funded program reserved for students in small towns and rural areas with no available public schools to help alleviate education costs.
But the parents found a roadblock to their plans.
Amendments to the state's human rights law imposing religious neutrality on schools, as well as new nondiscrimination policies on the basis of gender and sexual orientation, have barred faith-based schools from participating in the program, making the funds contingent on their compliance.
The Radonis family and St. Dominic Academy filed a lawsuit against the state last week, arguing the amendments cut students' access to a faith-based education.
"I think that just given the fact that Carson v. Makin was decided just June of last year, this is very fresh, and you've got the same argument here where the state was told by the Supreme Court that what you are doing is unconstitutional. You are violating the free exercise clause of religion covered under the First Amendment of the Constitution," Keith Radonis told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday.
"All they've done now is removed Hurdle A and inserted Hurdle B and C to still try and prevent folks from accessing this tuition money, so it seems very similar to the previous case," he continued.
Last year, the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Carson v. Makin stated that Maine could no longer withhold program funding from faith-based schools like St. Dominic Academy, arguing the practice violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor lambasted the outcome for allegedly "dismantling" separation of church and state. Chief Justice John Roberts, meanwhile, argued the state had been discriminating against religion.
"[The decision] said Maine cannot withhold this money from a family just because they happen to be religious… what's happened here is another set of unconstitutional hurdles have been put in place to prevent folks from accessing their town tuition and to send their children to the school of their choice," Keith continued.
"Even before the decision was announced, there was some maneuvering inside the highest levels of the state, between the attorney general and the commissioner of education, kind of trying to position themselves to be able to still, if you would, block [the outcome]. Basically saying, 'Even if we lose this, we're going to make sure that people of faith will never get to use this money.' But it seemed like they were trying to say, ‘OK, we’ll determine when a school is too religious.'"
One of the amendments made to the state's Human Rights Act in 2021 would require schools to be religiously "neutral," meaning the faith-based schools would be forced to be religiously neutral and express ideologies of all religions in their worship services.
"It gives the Maine Human Rights Commission—not parents or the school—the final word on how the school teaches students to live out Catholic beliefs regarding marriage, gender, and family life. As a result, faith-based schools are still being excluded from the state program to help rural families," according to a case summary from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who is representing the plaintiffs.
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The Radonis family clarified that providing funding to attend faith-based schools would not equate giving money to religious institutions, but instead gives families the opportunity to choose which school works best for their children.
"Essentially, the tax dollars you pay for that education never go to a public school, are more or less refunded back to the parents, and they have the ability to use that money to go to any school that they deem fit for their child, and it is critical that folks understand it's not the state giving money to a religious institution. All they're doing is giving that person's hard-earned tax dollars back to that family to make a decision, "OK, I can't send my child to a school in my town. What school?'" Keith said.
Valori Radonis told Fox News Digital it is critical to give Maine's rural students access to as many options as possible, saying, "It's important to have that choice. It's an excellent education from these institutions. St. Dominic's School is an academically accredited school that has proven to be excellent and that should be open to all rural families. Despite the religious standing of the school.
[TOLONEWS] A new polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... case has been reported in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, bringing the total number of positive cases to five in Afghanistan this year, all of them from Nangarhar.
An official within the Public Health Ministry told TOLOnews that this case was reported in the Dur Baba district of Nangarhar province.
TOLOnews contacted the affected child, Marwa, who is age six.
Marwa is from Goroko village of Dur-Baba district of Nangarhar.
According to family members, Marwa has been vaccinated but still got affected by polio.
"No one tells us anything. We have found out here that she is affected. They took the test here," said Awal Zar, father of Marwa.
The doctors said that the increase in the number of positive polio cases is due to the lack of awareness of the families.
"Unfortunately, again a positive case of polio has been recorded in Dur Baba district of Nangarhar... the main reasons for this are cultural issues," said Nadir Afghan, a doctor.
The residents of Nangarhar meanwhile called on the relevant organizations to take immediate actions to prevent further effects of the disease.
"The vaccination should be conducted soon in Afghanistan. This disease should be eliminated. Earlier, there was no such illness in Afghanistan before but it has increased now," said Allah Yar, a resident of Nangarhar.
"It has been five years since I had my vaccination. I have also conducted vaccination in this village very properly," said a resident of Nangarhar, who is also part of the vaccination effort.
Prior to this, one positive case was recorded in Behsood, one in Batikoot, one in Koot and another in Nazian district of Nangarhar province.
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[AFRICANEWS] The countries bordering Sudan, which has been shaken by fighting for the past two months, must "keep their borders open", urged the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, in an interview on Tuesday, after announcing that more than half a million people had fled the country.
"My appeal to all neighbouring countries is to say 'I understand your security concerns, but please keep your borders open, because these are people fleeing for their lives'," said Mr. Grandi, who was in Nairobi to mark world refugee day.
The fighting in Sudan that broke out on April 15th between the army, commanded by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF), led by general Mohammed Hamdane Daglo, has left more than 2,000 people dead, according to the NGO ACLED.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Grandi announced that the number of people who had fled Sudan to seek refuge abroad had now exceeded 500,000, and that the number of displaced persons in the country had reached two million.
"It's a worrying situation with neighbouring countries that are very fragile" and "insecurity that risks spreading," he shared.
According to the United Nations, more than 150,000 people have fled Darfur to neighbouring Chad, one of the least developed countries in the world, which is already hosting tens of thousands of refugees, particularly from Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and the Central African Republic. Many Sudanese have also fled to South Sudan and Egypt.
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FSB: there is a danger of the revival of the IS terrorist group in the Maghreb and the Sahel
New York , USA , June 20, 2023, 19:43 - IA Regnum. There is a real danger of the reincarnation of the Islamic State terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in the northwest and west of Africa. This was stated on June 20 by Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia Igor Sirotkin at the High-Level Conference of the Heads of Counter-Terrorist Structures of the UN Member States.
“The territories of the Maghreb and the Sahel are turning into the epicenter of the Islamist terrorist threat, creating a real danger of the “reincarnation” of ISIS in the version of the “African caliphate,” Sirotkin said.
He added that despite the military defeat of international terrorism in the Middle East, the situation there remains tense. First of all, this concerns the north and northeast of Syria.
He also pointed out that the movement of foreign terrorists in the flows of illegal migration from the south to Europe is of serious concern.
As IA Regnum reported , Sirotkin said that there was a real threat that terrorists would be able to acquire means of radioactive and chemical destruction. According to him, the problem remains all the more acute when state sponsors are involved in this, interested in destabilizing the political situation in one or another part of the world.
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FSB announced the threat of obtaining weapons of mass destruction by terrorists FSB: There is a threat of terrorists getting means of radioactive and chemical destruction
New York , USA , June 20, 2023, 19:33 - IA Regnum. There is a real threat that terrorists will be able to acquire means of radioactive and chemical destruction. This was stated on June 20 by Deputy Director of the FSB Igor Sirotkin at the High-Level Conference of the Heads of Counter-Terrorist Structures of the UN Member States.
“We note the emergence of a real threat that terrorist organizations will be able to acquire means of radioactive and chemical destruction,” Sirotkin said.
He stressed that the problem is all the more acute when state sponsors are involved in this, interested in destabilizing the political situation in one or another part of the world.
According to the deputy head of the FSB, such a short-sighted approach leads to the fact that weapons of destruction spread uncontrollably through the black market and are used for terrorist purposes.
He added that the world community needs to take coordinated measures to counter the attempts of international terrorists to use scientific and technological achievements in the field of geolocation, satellite communications, air weapons, including drones.
As IA Regnum reported , Sirotkin drew attention to the problem of recruiting members of international terrorist organizations to deliver them to Ukraine and subsequent infiltration into the Russian Federation. According to him, militants are moving to Europe from the south along with illegal migration flows, which is a serious concern given the resurgence of neo-Nazi ideas in some countries.
[AFRICANEWS] Nigerian President Bola Tinubu appointed new army and security chiefs on Monday evening, three weeks after his inauguration as the head of Africa's most populous country.
Bola Tinubu, 71, succeeded former president Muhammadu Buhari on 29 May. He was from the same party as Mr. Tinubu, but his eight years in power and a dramatic deterioration in the security situation have made his record highly contested.
Reshuffling the security apparatus after a change of president is common practice in Nigeria, which was marked by three decades of military dictatorship before returning to democracy in 1999.
On the day of his inauguration, President Tinubu promised to make security his "top priority" as Africa's largest economy faces a 14-year-old jihadist insurgency in the north-east, violence by criminal groups against a backdrop of communal tensions in the center and north-west, and separatist unrest in the south-east.
Mr. Tinubu made the appointments after dismissing all the chiefs and advisers of the military services, as well as the head of the national police and the head of the customs service, according to a blurb issued by the presidency on Monday evening.
The most notable appointments were General C.G. Musa, previously in charge of the fight against the jihadist insurgency, as the new Chief of Army Staff, and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, a former anti-corruption official, as National Security Adviser.
In his three weeks in power, Mr. Tinubu has taken a series of strategic measures, particularly on the economic front, with a decision on his first day to end fuel subsidies.
Last week, he also dismissed the head of the country's central bank, Godwin Emefiele, who has since been arrested. He has also appointed a new anti-corruption chief.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The "Presidential Leadership Council," loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, approved on Tuesday the extension of the duties of Moeen Abdulmalik as head of the pro-coalition government in Aden province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
This move may constitute a blow to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), which fought a battle to demand Moeen Abdulmalik’s dismissal.
Southern media, quoting sources in the Prime Minister’s Office in Aden, reported that the President of the Presidential Council, Rashad al-Alimi, informed Moeen of the arrangements for his return to Aden.
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[TOLONEWS] The Islamic Emirate’s front man, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that if Islamabad seeks it, the Islamic Emirate will mediate negotiations between Pakistain and Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP).
Earlier, Pak media reported that the Afghan interim government tried to resume negotiations between the TTP and Islamabad.
"If Pakistain wants us to mediate, and we know that it is beneficial, we will undoubtedly mediate as it benefits the region and we don’t want war in the region," Mujahid said.
He also denied the presence of TTP in Afghanistan and said that the Islamic Emirate will not allow Afghan soil to be used against other countries.
"We don’t have any type of connection with the TTP--in that we support them, or are with them; on the contrary, we do not allow them to be active in Afghanistan," Mujahid said.
"If the Islamic Emirate begins mediation between the Pakistain government and TTP, it will be a good gesture," said Sarwar Niazai, a military veteran.
"If any side mediates between the Pakistain government and TTP, there is not any other group but the Taliban," said Asadullah Nadim, military analyst.
Earlier, the Express Tribune reported that there is a renewed push by the Afghan Taliban to restart talks between Pak officials and the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) as a delegation of tribal elders reportedly met the TTP chief.
Though there was no official confirmation from either side, sources claimed that the tribal delegation recently met TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud. The meeting was part of efforts to explore the possibility of the resumption talks that were called off in November last year.
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[GEO.TV] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Tuesday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... and other party leaders.
The non-bailable arrest warrants were also issued for PTI leaders Hammad Azhar, Mian Aslam Iqbal and others.
The court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant at the request of the investigating officer.
The cases against the accused were registered in the Naseerabad and Model Town cop shoppes of Lahore for torching the container and attacking Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) office in the placid provincial capital.
Dozens of cases ranging from terrorism to corruption have been registered against the deposed prime minister since being ousted from power via a no-trust motion in April last year.
Other party leaders including the party chief were also booked under terrorism charges following riots sparked by the arrest of the former PM in the al-Qadir Trust case on May 9.
During the nearly three-day-long violent mostly peaceful protests, PTI supporters allegedly attacked and torched state installations, leaving at least eight dead and dozens others injured.
Following the violent mostly peaceful protests, several PTI leaders and founding members including Shireen Mazari, Fawad Chaudhry, Imran Ismail, Ali Zaidi, Aamir Mehmood Kiani and others parted their ways with the party while many blaming the party chief’s policies for the violence.
Hundreds of PTI leaders and workers were also arrested after the authorities launched a crackdown to detain the suspects involved in the vandalism.
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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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