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NEW YORK, NY — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse.
The suit, filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York, argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event.
The plaintiffs are six men with varying religious backgrounds who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne. They include a Baptist, a Muslim, a Seventh-Day Adventist and two practitioners of Santeria, as well as an atheist. Click here to read the story.
HAWAII - Lou Conter, the last survivor of the battleship USS Arizona which was sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.
AP reports Conter passed away on Monday following congestive heart failure. His daughter, Louann Daley, said she was beside him in his hospice care along with two of her brothers, James and Jeff.
The Japanese air assault claimed 1,177 sailors and Marines aboard the Arizona in the 1941 attack that kicked the lid off hell and propelled the United States into World War II. Click here to read more.
ALBANY, NY - On Monday night, LSU’s women’s basketball team, which was about to play the Iowa Hawkeyes in Albany, New York, in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA tournament, left the court before the national anthem was played.
While the anthem was being played, the Hawkeyes team stood on the court holding hands. “Honestly, I don’t even know when the anthem was played. We kind of have a routine where we are on the floor and then they come off at the 12-minute mark. … We come in and do our pre-game stuff. I’m sorry. Listen, that’s nothing intentionally done,” LSU coach Kim Mulkey said in an interview after the game. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - As two Americans focused on energy issues, one as a member of Congress and another as an entrepreneur, we often find ourselves in debates about how to best power society in the 21st century. While many of these debates focus on things such as the price of electricity, the truth is America is facing a broader, more fundamental energy dilemma that could affect our nation for years to come.
Simply put, this dilemma breaks down into a series of interrelated challenges. One is the fact that energy consumption will only increase with population growth and expected higher usage of energy-intensive technologies, such as artificial intelligence and cloud storage. Click here to read more.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF - California fast-food workers are getting a pay boost on April 1 that is coming with some unintended consequences.
After the state legislature approved a law hiking the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour, some companies have warned their employees that they will be scheduled for fewer hours as a result of the wage increase. The bill, which increases wages for fast-food companies with more than 60 locations nationwide, has put some managers of these chains in a tricky position. Click here for more.
