Bush calls for overhaul of nation’s education system

Bush calls for overhaul of nation’s education system

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush rolled out a broad education reform plan Monday that would shift power and money to states and local school districts — and away from the federal government.

The former Florida governor also wants to revamp how high school graduates and their parents finance college and other career training.

Judge: Tubal ligation violates Calif. hosptial’s religious freedom
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Judge: Tubal ligation violates Calif. hosptial’s religious freedom

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ordering a Catholic hospital in California to perform a tubal ligation sterilization procedure on a woman would violate its religious freedom, a San Francisco judge ruled Thursday.

"Religious-based hospitals have an enshrined place in American history and its communities, and the religious beliefs reflected in their operation are not to be interfered with by courts at this moment in history," Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith said while finalizing his previous tentative ruling.

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