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News Tipoffs - Utah Editors Newsletter for Tuesday November 26, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Coalition of AGs: U.S. Military Must Cease Its Unlawful Use of Racial Quotas
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 26 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Nov. 25, 2024: Today Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in urging U.S. military leaders to stop using unlawful and immoral racial quotas for recruitment and admission to military academies. In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the coalition writes that racial discrimination has no place in military institutions. Racial quotas undermine mili  more

NLRB Issues Decision on Tuacahn Center for Arts, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 27-RC-349529) by Region 27 Director Matthew S. Lomax. Here are excerpts: * * * TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Employer and INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, MOVING PICTURE TECHNICIANS, ARTISTS AND ALLIED CRAFTS OF THE UNITED STATES, ITS TERRITORIES AND CANADA, LOCAL 720, AFL-CIO, CLC, Petitioner DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION I. INTRODUCTION The Petitioner filed the insta  more

Okla. A.G. Drummond Urges Congress to Pass Kids Online Safety Act
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Nov. 26 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: Attorney General Gentner Drummond is calling upon Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) before the end of this year to protect children from online harm. Drummond and a coalition of 31 other state attorneys general outlined the urgent need to address the growing crisis of youth mental health linked to social media use in a letter sent last week to Cong  more

U.S. Attorney for D.C.: Activists Sentenced in Red Powder Attack on U.S. Constitution at the U.S. Archives and Vandalizing Art at the National Gallery
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: * * * Defendants Caused More Than $58,000 in Damage Within the Rotunda * * * Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison and 18 months respectively in the February 14, 2024, attack on the U.S. Constitution housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C. The sentencings, whic  more