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Today's Top News Compilation - Thursday, Feb 6th, 2020

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Alabama community demands accountability for flood damage before Biden's term ends

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After years of flooding and two presidential administrations, homeowners in Shiloh say they are still waiting for state and federal agencies to make them whole.
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DOE Title IX memo issues new guidance in paying NIL student-athletes

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The U.S. Department of Education has released guidance that says schools must make name, image, and likeness (NIL)-related compensation "proportionately" available.
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Biden seeks last minute appeal of court ruling on fluoride in water

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Attorneys for the Biden administration said Friday they would seek to challenge a court loss last year that could pave the way for the Trump administration to ban the use of fluoride in water.

The Biden administration's notice, filed Friday with the federal district court in San Francisco, comes just days ahead of a Jan. 21 deadline for the appeal.

While last year's ruling did not order the Environmental Protection Agency to ban water fluoridation, opponents say it carved out a "clear legal pathway" giving the federal government authority to force...
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Biden's last-minute constitutional change slammed by legal experts: 'Cynical and irrelevant'

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Legal experts slammed President Biden's announcement declaring the 28th Amendment law as "cynical and irrelevant."

Biden on Friday released a statement saying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) should be considered ratified and a new addition to the U.S. Constitution.

"It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal...
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DOJ 'politicized' under Biden, Ted Cruz confident Pam Bondi will reverse it

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As Senate confirmation hearings for several of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks get underway, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is particularly eager to see former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed as the nation's top law enforcement official.

"Pam Bondi did a terrific job at her confirmation hearing," Cruz told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday. "She's going to be confirmed. She will be the next attorney general. And I believe, actually, every one of the Trump cabinet nominees is going to be confirmed."

Cruz said that Bondi...
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Treasury Department recoups $31 million in improper government payments to dead people

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The Treasury Department announced this week that it had recouped more than $31 million in fraud and improper payments to dead people during just five short months of having access to the Social Security Administration's (SSA) federal death database.

The Treasury Department issues billions of payments every year, including benefit payments, federally funded state-administered payments and other miscellaneous payments. Sending those funds and others by accident to people who are dead has been a long-standing problem within the federal government...
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Dem senator quizzes Noem on how she will work with Homan: ‘Who is in charge?’

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Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, was questioned Friday about how she would work with "border czar" Tom Homan and who is in charge of securing the U.S. border.

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., asked Noem at her Senate confirmation hearing who is "going to be in charge of the border," saying he was uncertain about how her role relates to Homan’s.

"Well, the president will be in charge of the border. It's a national security issue. And the president is in charge of this country and has made a promise to the...
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LA wildfires create spike in rent prices, forcing rental listing sites to act

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Sites that host rental listings in the Los Angeles County area are scrambling to address rent gouging amid the destructive, deadly wildfires ravaging the region.
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Appeals court again declares DACA illegal, but keeps policy alive

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — A federal appeals court on Friday declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful, casting a cloud of certainty over more than half a million unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

A panel of judges before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that found a Biden administration rule to codify DACA violated U.S. immigration law. The 2012 Obama administration memo that originally created the policy has...
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Supreme Court takes up case over LGBTQ books in Maryland schools

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a dispute over whether a Maryland school district violated parents' religious rights when it declined to allow them to opt their elementary school children out of instruction involving storybooks about gender and sexuality.

The dispute centers around a decision by the Montgomery County School Board to end opt-out requests and notice requirements for the reading and discussion of storybooks that feature LGBTQ characters. The case sets up another clash involving LGBTQ rights and religious...
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Woman opens up about losing 'forever home' in Eaton Fire while 7 months pregnant

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Chloe Garcia, who is seven months pregnant, and her family recently lost their Altadena, California, home in the Eaton Fire.
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Nelly set to perform at Trump's inaugural ball, sources say

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Rapper Nelly is set to perform at one of President-elect Donald Trump's three official inaugural balls on Monday, sources familiar with inauguration planning told CBS News.

The Grammy Award-winning artist, known for his global 2002 smash hit, "Hot In Herre," will take the mic at the Inaugural Liberty Ball on Monday.

While the music may be "hot," the weather certainly won't be, with temperatures in Washington, D.C. expected to hover around the low 20s on Monday as an arctic blast sends temperatures plunging. Trump announced that his inauguration...
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Why is TikTok getting banned? What to know about the law

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Washington — The 170 million TikTok users in the U.S. could be in for a rude awakening come Sunday if they suddenly find the enormously popular video-sharing app is inaccessible because of a law passed by a bipartisan majority in Congress last year.

Lawmakers and U.S. officials have sounded the alarm for years about the supposed risks that TikTok's ties to China pose to national security, and Congress moved last year to force TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its stake in the app or be cut off from the U.S. market. The law gave the...
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Noem optimistic Laken Riley would still be alive if she were DHS secretary, as freshman senator rips Mayorkas

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Freshman GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno ripped the Biden administration’s immigration policy in his first hearing in the Senate as President-elect Trump’s DHS secretary nominee Kristi Noem sat in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

"Just to be clear, Laken Riley would be alive today if you had been the secretary of Homeland Security?" Moreno asked Noem during her confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Friday.

"Senator, my hope is that that would be true, yes," Noem responded, as the Laken Riley Act is being...
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Trump likely to avoid inaugural crowd size controversy with swearing-in moved indoors

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Debates over President-elect Trump's inaugural crowd size notably generated controversy back in 2017, with the White House insisting the media underreported Trump's numbers.

With his swearing-in now being moved indoors because of harsh winter weather, Trump is likely to avoid any questions about attendance this time around.

Fox News on Friday learned that Trump's inauguration would be moved indoors because of icy temperatures forecast for Washington, D.C. on Monday. Trump announced that he had ordered his inaugural address and other ceremonial...
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