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Alabama bill may lift yoga ban in public schools but prohibit ‘namaste’ greeting

Lawmakers move to lift decades-old ban, but the bill would continue to prohibit chanting, mantras and the greeting Alabama could takes steps to lift a decades-old ban on yoga in public schools this week, but would keep a ban on the greeting namaste in place. A bill brought by Representative Jeremy Gray, a Democratic legislator from Opelika, is on the proposed debate agenda Tuesday in the Alabama House of Representatives. If the bill passes with a two-thirds majority, it will then go to the Senate for further debate. The Alabama…

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Martin Luther King’s son and others rally to halt Alabama execution

Activists have been lobbying for the state to stop Nathaniel Woods planned execution following confession from co-defendant The son of Martin Luther King has joined a growing list of activists and celebrities calling on Alabamas governor to stop the planned execution of an inmate over the killings of three police officers. Nathaniel Woods was convicted of capital murder in 2004 and is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday night. Martin Luther King III, an activist and the son of the civil rights leader, has sent Alabama governor Kay…

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At least five killed and 300,000 without power as storm rakes south-east US

North Carolina and Pennsylvania had most customers without electricity while as much as 4in of snow fell in Ohio More than 300,000 homes and businesses in the south-eastern US were without power early on Friday after a powerful storm raked the region. At least five people were killed. North Carolina had the most customers without electricity on Friday, followed by Pennsylvania, according to the data website poweroutages.us. The outages matched states that were under high wind and winter weather advisories issued by the National Weather Service. Forecasters warned that the…

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