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Ruling limits who can
file Voting Rights suits
WASHINGTON — A divided
federal appeals court on Mon-
day ruled that private individ-
uals and groups such as the
NAACP do not have the abil-
ity to sue under a key section of
the federal Voting Rights Act.
The 2-1 decision by a panel
of the 8th Circuit Court of Ap-
peals based in St. Louis found
that only the U.S. attorney
general can enforce Section 2
of the Voting Rights Act, which
requires political maps to in-
clude districts where minority
populations’ preferred candi-
dates can win elections.
The majority said other
federal laws, including the
1964 Civil Rights Act, make it
clear when private groups can
sue but said similar wording
is not found in the voting law.
ROSALYNN CARTER (1927-
2023): Former first lady Rosa-
lynn Carter, the closest adviser
to Jimmy Carter during his one
term as U.S. president and
their four decades thereafter as
global humanitarians, died last
Sunday at age 96 after many
months of declining health.
ONLINE SAFETY: Senate Ju-
diciary Committee Chair-
man Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey
Graham, the top Republi-
can on the panel, announced
Monday they issued biparti-
san subpoenas to the CEOs
of Discord, Snap and X, de-
manding that the heads of
Earth speeding toward
global warming limit
According to a United Na-
tions report issued Monday,
Earth is speeding to 4.5 to 5.2
degrees Fahrenheit of global
warming since preindustrial
times and will likely blow well
past the agreed-upon inter-
national climate threshold.
To have an even money shot
at keeping warming to the 2.7
degrees Fahrenheit limit ad-
opted by the 2015 Paris cli-
mate agreement, countries
must slash their emissions by
42% by 2030, said the U.N.
Environment Programme’s
Emissions Gap report. Carbon
emissions from the burning of
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE
coal, oil and gas rose 1.2% last
year, the report said.
US DEFENSE SECRETARY PAYS SURPRISE VISIT TO UKRAINE Through the end of Sep-
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, greets U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday in tember, the daily global aver-
Kyiv, Ukraine. Austin made the unannounced visit in a high-profile push to keep money and weapons flowing age temperature exceeded 1.5
to Ukraine even as U.S. and international resources are stretched by the new global risks raised by the Israel- degrees Celsius above mid-
Hamas conflict. Austin announced the Pentagon would send an additional $100 million in weapons to Ukraine 19th century levels on 86 days
from U.S. existing stockpiles, including artillery and munitions for air defense systems. “We count on your this year, the report said.
support,” Zelenskyy said, thanking Congress and the American people.
NIAGARA FALLS: A vehicle ex-
ploded at a checkpoint on the
American side of a U.S.-Can-
BIG NUMBER THE WATER COOLER ada bridge Wednesday in Ni-
agara Falls, leaving two people
28% Americans
who worry fre-
quently or occasionally that
TURKEYS PARDONED: Turkeys
Liberty and Bell have new ap-
preciation for the phrase “Let
MISS UNIVERSE: Miss Nicaragua
Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss
Universe competition Nov. 18 in
dead and prompting the clos-
ing of four border crossings in
the area, authorities said.
they will be murdered, ac- freedom ring.” The Thanksgiving El Salvador, the first to wear the
SPY SATELLITE: North Ko-
cording to a new Gallup poll, birds were pardoned Monday in crown from her country.Palacios,
rea claimed Wednesday to
a near-record high. Addition- the annual White House tradi- a 23-year-old communicologist,
have successfully placed a
ally, 72% worry they will fall tion that this year coincided with wants to promote mental health
spy satellite into orbit with
victim to identity theft, ac- President Joe Biden’s 81st birth- after suffering debilitating bouts
its third launch attempt this
cording to the poll. day. Hundreds of guests watched of anxiety. Miss Thailand, Ann-
year, demonstrating the na-
from the South Lawn as Biden tonia Porsild, was first runner-up
tion’s determination to build
HE SAID ... kicked off the unofficial start of and Miss Australia, Moraya Wil-
a space-based surveillance

the three companies testify at
a December hearing on pro-
tecting children online.
HOME SALES: Existing home
sales fell 4.1% in October from
September to a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of 3.79
million, the National Associ-
ation of Realtors said Tuesday.
That’s weaker than the 3.90
million sales pace economists
were expecting, according to
FactSet.
“
We are at war, and we
will continue the war.
We will continue until we
achieve all our goals.”
— Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu,
after Israel’s Cabinet on
Wednesday approved a
four-day cease-fire with
Hamas to allow for the
release of some hostages
being held in the
Gaza Strip.
Washington’s holiday season.
SHAKIRA: After having main-
tained her innocence for nearly
five years, pop star Shakira
struck a last-minute deal Mon-
day in her tax fraud trial in Bar-
celona to avoid the risk of going
to prison. Shakira answered
“yes” to confirm her acknowl-
edgment of six counts of failing
to pay the Spanish government
about $15.8 million in taxes be-
tween 2012 and 2014.
son, the second runner-up.
BONAPARTE’S HAT: A faded and
cracked felt bicorne hat worn
by Napoléon Bonaparte sold for
$2.1 million at an auction last
Sunday of the French emperor’s
belongings. The signature broad,
black hat — one of a handful
still in existence that Napoléon
wore when he ruled 19th-cen-
tury France and waged war in
Europe — was initially valued at
$650,000 to $870,000.
system during protracted ten-
sions with the United States.
HUNTER BIDEN: House Repub-
licans issued a subpoena Tues-
day to Lesley Wolf, a senior
federal prosecutor involved in
the criminal investigation into
Hunter Biden, demanding an-
swers for what they allege was
Justice Department interfer-
ence in the yearslong case into
the president’s son.
— Associated Press

Lady
HISTORY AND CULTURE

Bird’s
lyrical legacy LBJ Library curator Lara Hall
stands with displays Nov. 6 in the “Lady
Bird: Beyond the Wildflowers” exhibit at
the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas.
ERIC GAY PHOTOS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Projects in her own voice offer “She did all of these things and
new looks at the late first lady she didn’t ask for credit, but she
deserves the credit,” Porter said.
The couple’s daughter Luci
Baines Johnson can still remem-

T
JAMIE STENGLE | Associated Press multuous days after her husband ber the frustration she felt as a
exas college student Jade became president following the 16-year-old when she saw the
Emerson found herself assassination of President John message hanging on the door-
entranced as she worked F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, knob to her mother’s room that
on a podcast about Lady 1963. The library released that read: “I want to be alone.” Lady
Bird Johnson, listening to hour audio about a decade after her Bird Johnson would spend that
upon hour of the former first lady death. It adds to recorded inter- time working on her audio tapes,
recounting everything from her views she did following her hus- Various attire worn by Lady Bird Johnson is compiling her thoughts from
childhood memories to ad- band’s presidency and home displayed Nov. 6 at the “Lady Bird: Beyond the photographs, letters and other
vising her husband in the movies she narrated. Wildflowers” exhibit at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. information that might strike
White House. “I don’t know that her memory.
“I fell in love very people appreciated or “She was just begging for the
quickly,” said Emer- realized how much Johnson did with presidential viewers through the White world to give her the time to do
son, host and pro- she was doing behind library staff over the decades House years. From advising her what she’d been uniquely trained
ducer of the Univer- the scenes and I think after her husband left the White husband on strategy to critiqu- to do,” said Baines Johnson, who
sity of Texas podcast that’s the part that’s House in 1969. ing his speeches, her influence is noted that her mother had de-
“Lady Bird.” “She kept only just now really “Just to have her telling her quickly seen. grees in both history and journal-
surprising me.” Lady Bird
starting to come out,” own story was so fascinating,” Porter also notes that Johnson ism from the University of Texas.
The podcast, which Johnson
said Lara Hall, LBJ Pres- Emerson said. “And she just was “a fierce environmentalist” “She was just beyond, beyond
was released earlier this idential Library curator. kept surprising me. Like during and an advocate for women. She and beyond,” she said. “She
year, is among several recent “Lady Bird: Beyond the Wild- World War II when LBJ was off was also a skilled campaigner, thought a day without learning
projects using Johnson’s own flowers” shows library visitors serving, she was the one who ran Porter said. Among events the was a day that was wasted.”
lyrical voice to offer a new look the myriad ways Johnson made his congressional office in the documentary recounts is John- Emerson called her work on
at the first lady who died in 2007. an impact. Hall said the exhibit, 1940s. She had bought a radio son’s tour of the South aboard a the podcast “a huge gift” as she
Other projects include a docu- which closes at the end of the station in Austin and went down train named the “Lady Bird Spe- “spent more time with Lady Bird
mentary titled “The Lady Bird year, has been so popular that to Austin to renovate it and get it cial” before the 1964 election. than I did with anyone else in my
Diaries” premiering on Hulu and the library hopes to integrate going again.” With racial tensions simmer- college years.”
an exhibit in Austin at the pres- parts of it into its permanent The new documentary from ing following the passage of the “She’s taught me a lot about
idential library for her husband, display. filmmaker Dawn Porter, based Civil Rights Act, President John- just what type of legacy I’d like
Lyndon B. Johnson, who died in In making her podcast, Emer- on Julia Sweig’s 2021 biogra- son sent his wife as his surrogate. to leave with my own life and just
1973. son, who graduated from UT in phy “Lady Bird Johnson: Hid- “She does that whistle-stop tour how to treat people.”
Lady Bird Johnson began re- May with a journalism degree, ing in Plain Sight” and a pod- in the very hostile South and “Every time I hear her voice, I
cording an audio diary in the tu- relied heavily on the interviews cast hosted by the author, takes does it beautifully,” Porter said. start to smile,” she said.
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