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International Rotarians from Africa Visit Northeast Missouri  
Memphis Democrat - Missouri
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July 10, 2025
International Rotarians from Africa visited northeast Missouri in June. L-R: Peter Nkosi from Malawi, Martin Maversera from Zimbabwe, Maudy Lwenje from Zambia, Susanna Millapo from Zambia, Rachel Ward from Zambia, Dr. Okhuaihesuyi (Kirksville...
NCU hails alumni elected to leadership positions in SDA World Church
Jamaica Observer
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July 10, 2025
New general vice-president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Leonard Johnson TWO alumni of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) have been elected and reappointed to top leadership positions in the Seventh-day Adventist World Church. The...
Crapo and Risch introduce bill targeting gender ideology in schools
North Idaho Times
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July 10, 2025
Senator Mike Crapo | Official U.S. Senate headshotSenator Mike Crapo | Official U.S. Senate headshot U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, both Republicans from Idaho, have introduced the Say No to Indoctrination Act. This legislation aims to...
NWMSU hopes to expand the recruitment and visitors center
KXCV - Missouri
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Home » News » 2025 » August Aug. 4, 2025 | By: Gavin McGough Northwest Missouri State University is purchasing a building near the entry of its campus to develop a new student recruitment and family welcome center. The Board of Regents approved...
New Missouri Law Provides Free Tuition For Career, Technical Education
Forbes
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The Missouri General Assembly has passed a bill, recently signed into law by the governor, that will ... More pay eligible high school graduates' tuition for career and technical certificate programs.getty Missouri has passed a new law that...
Governor signs bill enhancing tools for Missouri schools
Jefferson City News - Missouri
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July 9, 2025
Dr. Karla Eslinger Commissioner | Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary EducationDr. Karla Eslinger Commissioner | Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Governor Mike Kehoe has signed Senate Bill 68, which introduces...
Deportations Threaten South Omaha Neighborhood Built by Meatpacking and Immigrants
Manufacturing.net
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July 10, 2025
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — On June 10, dozens of masked federal agents filed into the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant in South Omaha, presenting a warrant to company officials to conduct an immigration raid. As agents entered the production floor,...
Opinion: The Catholic Church must reckon with this political cruelty
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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Thomas Finan As Catholics, we are taught to see the face of Christ in the suffering of the imprisoned, the migrant child, the asylum seeker chained and voiceless. But today, across our country, a growing machinery of cruelty operates in plain...
Steven Edward Mosinski, 62, of Packwood
Explore SE Iowa
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August 4, 2025
Steven Edward Mosinski, 62, of Packwood, IA passed away at his home on Friday, August 1, 2025. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 8, 2025, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield, IA. Burial will be in the Prairie Center...
Opinion: Jewish values require a better view of immigration
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
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July 9, 2025
Growing up in California, I have been around immigrants all my life. They have been my classmates, housekeepers, teachers, nurses and friends. I am well aware that many of them harvest the food I eat and build the structures I walk into. Mateo, a...
For Students with Disabilities, Suspension Not Just a Matter of Race and Gender — But Geography
The Good Men Project - California
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July 9, 2025
By Amanda Geduld, The 74 This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. This story was published in partnership with The Post and...
No data yet on immigration status of arrestees, 7 months after Kehoe’s order
KMOV - Missouri
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July 9, 2025
ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4) -- From the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida to ICE’s presence at a park in Los Angeles this week, illegal immigration has continued dominating the headlines. As part of Missouri’s own efforts to crack down, on...
GVMH Partners With CMU to Expand Educational Opportunities for Employees
Benton County Enterprise - Missouri
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July 10, 2025
Lea Studer Clinton, MO. – (July 3, 2025) — Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare (GVMH) is proud to announce a new partnership with Central Methodist University (CMU) that will provide tuition discounts to GVMH employees and their dependents pursuing...
Number of measles cases climbs in Missouri this week
KOMU 8 - Missouri
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The total number of measles cases in Missouri has climbed to seven as the U.S. this week reached its highest annual measles tally in 33 years, according to the Center for Outbreak Response Intervention daily tracker at Johns Hopkins University....
Holy smoke: a decade later, the First Church of Cannabis still sparks conversation
The Statehouse File - Indiana
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Ten years ago, Indiana got an unexpected spiritual awakening—complete with incense, music, and a serious conversation about religious freedom and marijuana. On July 1, 2015, the First Church of Cannabis held its first service in Indianapolis....
Kehoe signs 13 Missouri bills into law, including school cellphone ban
St. Louis Public Radio - Missouri
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July 9, 2025
Gov. Mike Kehoe signed 13 bills into law on Wednesday, including a ban on cellphones in Missouri schools. Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, each school district, including charter schools, must have a written policy on students’ use of phones....
First-person: The Cooperative Program fostered my passion for church planting
The Pathway - Missouri
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July 9, 2025
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in a series of features on Missouri Baptist ministries supported for a century through the Cooperative Program giving of MBC-affiliated churches. Mike Hubbard serves as pastor of Genesis Church in Eureka, Mo. He’s...
Trump plans 50% tariff on Brazil and 'Superman' immigrant comment criticized: Morning Rundown
NBC News
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July 10, 2025
Donald Trump said he plans to impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil. Questions about the future of FEMA loom amid the Texas floods. And "Superman" becomes a political flashpoint ahead of the new movie's release. Here’s what to know today....
Senators introduce bill against gender theory in schools
Joco Today - Kansas
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July 10, 2025
Senator Roger Marshall, US Senator for Kansas | Official U.S. House headshotSenator Roger Marshall, US Senator for Kansas | Official U.S. House headshot On Thursday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) introduced...
Measles outbreak reported in southwest Missouri county as US cases continue to climb
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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Vials of the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella virus) vaccine are displayed Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. Julio Cortez, Associated Press CEDAR COUNTY, Mo. — The total number of measles cases in Missouri has climbed to seven as the U.S....