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Choudrant continues hot start by blowing past Claiborne Christian 63-49

The Choudrant High boys’ basketball team continued its fast start to the 2022-23 season with a 63-49 win over Claiborne Christian on Monday.

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Poole completes Drill Instructor School

Sgt. Asen “Ace” Poole, of Choudrant, recently completed Marine Corps Drill Instructor School, class 4-22.

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Tech’s Jennings presents at national convention

Bailey Grace Jennings, a second- year graduate student in Louisiana Tech’s Speech- Language Pathology program, recently presented her research at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) national convention in New Orleans.

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GOP-led Arizona county refuses to certify election

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused Monday to certify the 2022 election despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count, a decision that was quickly challenged in court by the state’s top election official.

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Supreme Court wrestles with Biden’s deportation policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with a partisan-tinged dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

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Rotary Club honors Students of the Month

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Biden calls on Congress to head off potential devastating rail strike

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would take up legislation this week to impose the deal that unions agreed to in September.

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China lockdown protests pause as police flood city streets

HONG KONG (AP) — With police out in force, there was no word of additional protests against strict government anti-pandemic measures Tuesday in Beijing, as temperatures fell well below freezing. Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities where online calls to gather had been issued were also reportedly quiet.