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  2. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    The only exception to the state's gubernatorial declaration requirement occurs when an emergency or disaster takes place on federal property or to a federal asset—for example, the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, or the Space Shuttle Columbia in the 2003 return-flight disaster.

  3. Transgender rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [57] Virginia removed the requirement for surgery to change the gender marker in September 2020. [58] Tennessee will not change the sex on a birth certificate under any circumstances. [59] [60] [61] In December 2020, a federal judge invalidated an unconstitutional departmental rule banning sex changes on an individual's birth certificate within ...

  4. Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia

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    To explain these disparities, some scholars have suggested there is a Hispanic "Education Crisis" due to failed school and social policies. [99] To this end, scholars have further offered several potential reasons including language barriers, poverty, and immigrant/nativity status resulting in Hispanics not performing well academically.

  5. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As a reservation that is "incompatible with the object and purpose" of a treaty is void as a matter of international law, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, art. 19, 1155 U.N.T.S. 331 (entered into force January 27, 1980) (specifying conditions under which signatory States can offer "reservations"), there is some issue as to whether the ...

  6. 2024 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. [a] The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, the junior U.S. senator from Ohio—defeated the Democratic Party's ticket—Kamala Harris, the incumbent vice president, and Tim Walz, the 41st governor of Minnesota.

  7. Hate crime laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, enacted 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), permits federal prosecution of anyone who "willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with ... any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin" [1] or because of the victim's attempt to engage in one of six types of federally protected activities ...

  8. Presidency of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    There was little unemployment, [57] but interest rates were at their highest in a century. [58] Nixon's major economic goal was to reduce inflation; the most obvious means of doing so was to end the war. [58] As the war continued, the administration adopted a policy of restricting the growth of the money supply to address the inflation problem.